A MICROMECHANICAL CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR DUCTILE FRACTURE: NUMERICAL TREATMENT AND CALIBRATION STRATEGY

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

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Malcher, L (Author) Other; F.M. Andrade Pires (Author) FEUP; José César de Sá (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: COMPUTATIONAL PLASTICITY XI: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS

Pages: 66-79

11th International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS) - Fundamentals and Applications

Barcelona, SPAIN, SEP 07-09, 2011

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Abstract (EN): This contribution describes the numerical treatment and calibration strategy for a new micromechanical damage model, which employs two internal damage variables. The new micromechanical model is based on Gurson's theory incorporating the void volume fraction as one damage parameter and a shear mechanism, which was formulated considering geometrical and phenomenological aspects, as the second internal damage variable. The first and the second damage variables are coupled in the constitutive formulation in order to affect the hydrostatic stress and deviatoric stress contributions, respectively. Both internal damage variables are independent and, as a consequence, they also require independent nucleation mechanisms for each one in order to trigger the growth contribution. These mechanisms require the determination of material parameters that are obtained through two calibration points: one for high and the other for low stress triaxiality. This is in contrast to other damage models that typically require one calibration point. In the first part of this paper, theoretical aspects of the constitutive formulation are presented and discussed. Then, an implicit numerical integration algorithm is derived, based on the operator split methodology, together with a methodology to perform the calibration of all material parameters. In order to assess the performance of the new model, the "butterfly" specimen was used and the 1045 steel was employed under a wide range of stress triaxiality. The results obtained from the numerical simulations are presented such as: the evolution of both damage parameters, the evolution of the equivalent plastic strain, the reaction versus displacement curve and the contour of the effective damage parameter. From the comparison of the numerical results with experimental evidence, it will be highlighted that the present formulation is able to predict accurately the location of fracture onset and the level of the associated equivalent plastic strain at fracture.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14