%I Springer-Verlag
%P 297-304
%T A unified interface constitutive law for the study of fracture and contact problems in heterogeneous materials
%B Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems
%R 10.1007/3-540-31761-9_33
%N 27
%S Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
%A Marco Paggi
%A Alberto Carpinteri
%A Giorgio Zavarise
%D 2006
%L eprints1943
%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.