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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 24
ADVANCES IN NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT METHODS Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and M. Papadrakakis
Paper VII.4
Coupling of a Micromechanically based Void Growth Model with a Macrocrack Model for the Simulation of Damage Evolution in Ductile Materials C. Könke
Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany , "Coupling of a Micromechanically based Void Growth Model with a Macrocrack Model for the Simulation of Damage Evolution in Ductile Materials", in B.H.V. Topping, M. Papadrakakis, (Editors), "Advances in Non-Linear Finite Element Methods", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 205-219, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.24.7.4
Abstract
This paper presents a way to simulate damage evolution for metal
materials under large displacements and large deformations. The
complete damage range is divided into a micro-damage and a
macro-damage range. The micro-damage phase is described by
the Cocks/Ashby void-growth model for isotropic, ductile materials
under isothermal conditions. After reaching a critical void-volume
fraction a macro crack is introduced into the model.
Therewith it is possible to simulate damage evolution from nucleation
and growth of first micro-voids to initiation of macro
cracks and complete failure of the material. The Finite Element
Method is used for the numerical formulation. For every incremental
macro crack step a special mesh is constructed. Therewith
the crack path remains independent of the initial FE-mesh.
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