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10<br />

Collapse of industrial structure<br />

(Midwest Steel, Inc 2008)<br />

Cohesive Zone Model<br />

Collapse of structure vs. fracture failure using CZM: elements are<br />

disassociated<br />

CZM “has mainly been applied” to brittle materials in continua.<br />

Limited CZM studies for ductile materials “on a structural scale”<br />

Develop CZM-based macro-model<br />

� Efficient<br />

� Cyclic loadings<br />

Fracture failure using Cohesive Zone Model<br />

(CZM) approach (Zhang, 2003)

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