We present a numerical model to simulate the damage and fracture process occurred in ceramic
materials under thermal shock conditions. In particular, the variational principle is applied
to gradient damage analysis in the establishment of the numerical model. The experiments on
quenching tests of circular specimens are used to validate the efficiency of the model, proving
that the proposed model is capable of reproducing faithfully the entire damage-fracture
process of the ceramic specimens. Moreover, influences of different physical parameters
are examined and discussed. We find that an internal length scale parameter, which can be
considered as a material parameter, plays an important role in the entire fracture process.
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