Microstructural effects on ductile fracture in heterogeneous materials. Part II: Applications to cast aluminum microstructures

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-233

  Paquet, Daniel ^a   Ghosh, Somnath ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actual microstructure; Heterogeneous materials; LE VCFEM; Rate dependent ductile fracture

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL MICROSTRUCTURE; APPLIED STRAIN; CAST ALUMINUM; CAST ALUMINUM ALLOY; COMPLEX MICROSTRUCTURES; CRITICAL REGION; FAILURE MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; HETEROGENEOUS MICROSTRUCTURE; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LE-VCFEM; LOADING RATE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MICRO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECT; MICROSTRUCTURAL MORPHOLOGY; RATE-DEPENDENT DUCTILE FRACTURE; SIMULATED MICROSTRUCTURES; TWO-POINT BENDING; VOLUME ELEMENTS; VORONOI CELL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALUMINUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; STRAIN RATE;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 78651356510     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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