A Damage Model for Ductile Metals

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2-1989

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Abstract

A physically-based theory of damage for ductile metals is outlined. It rests upon a direct extension of the authors recently proposed viscoplastic model for finite deformations to include the effects of dislocation-void interactions as they manifest themselves in void nucleation, growth, and coalescence. Emphasis is put on illustrating the general structure of the present framework within which coupling effects of texture development, void formation, and adiabatic heating can be considered and their role to the localization of deformation and failure can be evaluated. No special attention is placed on justifying the various growth laws and simplifying assumptions pertaining to the detailed structure of the model, for example the manner that spatial gradients of the damage variable enter into the theory. Such simplifications, however, facilitate the solution of the relevant equations for a case of homogeneous triaxial state of stress permitting a qualitative comparison with experimental data obtained for Bridgeman-notch specimens.

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© 1989

Publication Title

Nuclear Engineering and Design

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