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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2009 Aug 13;42(15):2513–2519. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.07.014

Table 1.

Experimental and FEA interfacial creep damage displacements at N=50,000. There was a moderate correlation between these values (r2=0.41). Relation between the total crack growth in the cement and crack volume fraction.

Creep damage displacement [μm] Cracks in the cement
Specimen Experiment FEA Total crack growth, Experiment [mm] Crack volume fraction, FEA [%]
1 3.1 7.3 10.68 0.31
2 4.2 5.0 1.64 0.17
3 0.7 2.5 3.03 0.09
4 2.1 2.4 4.37 0.05
5 6.0 7.4 9.27 0.18
6 14.2 21.0 5.66 0.38
7 14.9 218.9* 12.19 0.43*
8 23.4 197.8* 2.72 1.89*
9 11.3 1.4 8.49 0.02
10 33.5 14.6 −1.06 0.45

measured at N=10,000, specimen failed afterwards

*

measured at N=1,870, model failed afterwards