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Due to the high damping mechanical properties of fiberboard materials, corrugated fiberboard boxes are widely used as transport packagings of dangerous goods. Since there is risk of vertical impact within the distribution system, drop tests are performed as design type tests to assess a package’s ability to withstand damage. In this context, however, little is known regarding the transient mechanical response of a filled fiberboard box. The reason is that the nature of the packaging material presents challenges in identifying the deformation mechanisms experimentally. The aim of this work is to provide a framework for predicting the damage resistance of complete, filled corrugated fiberboard boxes which are ready for transportation. Therein, drop test finite-element simulations are used and validated by experimental results. These numerical calculation models are a valuable tool for virtual product development and contribute to the optimization of the design cycle.
Environmentally-assisted material degradation involves mass transport and mechanical processes interacting in the material. A well-known example is hydrogen-induced stress-corrosion cracking. One major challenge within this scope is the quantification of the coupling mechanisms in question. The computational modeling of environmentally-assisted cracks is the key objective of this investigation and realised within the theory of gradient-extended dissipative continua with lengthscales. The modeling of sharp crack discontinuities is replaced by a diffusive crack model based on the introduction of a crack phase-field to maintain the evolution of complex crack topologies. Within a thermodynamical framework allowing for mechanical and mass transport processes the crack phasefield is capable to model crack initiation and propagation by the finite element method. As complex crack situations such as crack initiation, curvilinear crack patterns and crack branching are usually hard to realise with sharp crack models, they can be assessed without the requirement of a predefined crack path within this method. The numerical modeling of a showcase demonstrates a crack initiation as well as a crack propagation situation with respect to the determination of stress-intensity factors; a crack deviation situation with a curvilinear crack path is modeled by the introduction of a geometrical perturbation and a locally enhanced species concentration.