Micromechanics Modelling of Ductile Fracture

• Main Authors: Chen, Zengtao. (Author), Butcher, Cliff. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 195
• Subjects: Engineering.; Materials.; Mechanical engineering.; Surfaces (Physics).; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Mechanical Engineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6098-1

This book summarizes research advances in micromechanics modelling of ductile fractures made in the past two decades. The ultimate goal of this book is to reach manufacturing frontline designers and materials engineers by providing a user-oriented, theoretical background of micromechanics modeling....

Table of Contents:

• 1�Introduction to Ductile Fracture Modelling
• 2�Averaging Methods for Computational Micromechanics
• 3�Anisotropy
• 4�Void Growth to Coalescence: Unit Cell and Analytical Modelling
• 5�Two-Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation Modeling
• 6�Two-Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation/Finite Element Modeling of Sheet Metal Forming
• 7�Two Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation with Stress State
• 8�Three-Dimensional Particle Fields
• 9������� Estimation of the Stress State within Particles and Inclusions and a Nucleation Model for Particle Cracking
• 10�Modelling Void Growth to Coalescence in a 3-D Particle Field
• 11�Application of the Complete Percolation Model
• References.