Development of a constitutive model for self-healing materials

This report is the result of a pilot-study towards the numerical simulation of self-healing materials. At the moment this project is conducted the development of self-healing materials is in an early stage. At the chair of Engineering Mechanics of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, no numerical model has been developed yet for this new kind of materials. This project is a first exploration of the possibilities to simulate the behaviour of self-healing materials by numerical models. This exploration has been done by developing a constitutive law that adequately describes the mechanical behaviour of these materials. Subsequently this new constitutive law has been tested in a 1-dimensional test case and in a finite element setting.