extraction of strain energy release rates using cohesive zone modeling
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Dear all, I am a student carrying out my Master's project. I want to perform a comparative study of strain energy release rates for a delamination of double cantilever beam using Virtual crack closure technique(VCCT) and Cohesive zone modeling(CZM). I could extract the values of strain energy release rates using VCCT directly in the visualization module. But i am not able to directly extract the values of strain energy release rates using Cohesive modeling method. i have tried using both cohesive surface contact and cohesive element contact. But i am not able to get the values of strain energy release rates using any of the two methods of cohesive zone modeling. Is there any way to extract strain energy release rates using cohesive modeling approach? Thanks in advance for your help, SINDHU BR