%0 Book Section
%A Paggi, Marco
%A Carpinteri, Alberto
%A Zavarise, Giorgio
%B Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems
%D 2006
%F eprints:1943
%I Springer-Verlag
%N 27
%P 297-304
%S Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
%T A unified interface constitutive law for the study of fracture and contact problems in heterogeneous materials
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1943/
%X A unified interface constitutive law for the description of contact and decohesion at bi-material interfaces is proposed. To this aim, a synthesis of the nonlinear models pertaining to Fracture and Contact Mechanics is presented. The issues pertinent to the implementation within the FE discretization framework are also discussed in detail. Finally, a numerical example of fatigue modeling at the mesoscopical level in a fiber-reinforced composite is provided.