The role of macroscopic hardening and individual length-scales on crack tip stress elevation from phenomenological strain gradient plasticity

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3527-3540

  Komaragiri, Uday ^a   Agnew, Sean R ^b   Gangloff, Richard P ^b   Begley, Matthew R ^b  

^a ABAQUS Central   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracking; Scaling; Strain gradient plasticity

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CRACK TIPS; ELASTICITY; HARDENING; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; PLASTICS;

APPLIED LOADINGS; CRACK PROPAGATION BEHAVIORS; CRACK TIP STRESSES; CRACKING; DAMAGE MECHANISMS; EFFECT OF STRAINS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GRADIENT EFFECTS; HARDENING PARAMETERS; MICROMECHANICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL LENGTHS; SCALE PARAMETERS; SCALE THEORIES; SCALING; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; STATIONARY CRACKS; STRAIN GRADIENT PLASTICITY; STRAIN GRADIENTS; STRESS ELEVATIONS; STRUCTURAL ALLOYS;

PLASTICITY;

EID: 55749102694     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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