The Willam-Warnke yield criterion is a function that is used to predict when failure will occur in concrete and other cohesive-frictional materials such as rock, soil, and ceramics. This yield criterion has the functional form
where is the first invariant of the Cauchy stress tensor, and are the second and third invariants of the deviatoric part of the Cauchy stress tensor. There are three material parameters ( - the uniaxial compressive strength, - the uniaxial tensile strength, - the equibiaxial compressive strength) that have to be determined before the Willam-Warnke yield criterion may be applied to predict failure.
In terms of, the Willam-Warnke yield criterion can be expressed as
where is a function that depends on and the three material parameters and depends only on the material parameters. The function can be interpreted as the friction angle which depends on the Lode angle . The quantity is interpreted as a cohesion pressure. The Willam-Warnke yield criterion may therefore be viewed as a combination of the Mohr-Coulomb and the Drucker-Prager yield criteria.
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