Microstructural effects on ductile fracture in heterogeneous materials. Part I: Sensitivity analysis with LE-VCFEM

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-225

  Paquet, Daniel ^a   Ghosh, Somnath ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous materials; LE VCFEM; Rate dependent ductile fracture; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AS-CAST; DUCTILE FAILURES; DUCTILE MATERIALS; ELASTIC-VISCOPLASTIC MATERIAL; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; IN-BAND; INTERFACE SEPARATION; LE-VCFEM; LOADING RATE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MACROSCOPIC CRACKS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATRIX; MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECT; MICROSTRUCTURAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OVERALL FAILURE; RATE-DEPENDENT DUCTILE FRACTURE; REINFORCED ALUMINUM; VOID NUCLEATION; VORONOI CELL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALUMINUM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 78651355643     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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