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Phase-Field Formulation for Ductile Fracture

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Phase-field models have been a topic of much research in recent years. Results have shown that these models are able to produce complex crack patterns in both two and three dimensions. A number of extensions from brittle to ductile materials have been proposed and results are promising. To date, however, these extensions have not accurately represented strains after crack initiation or included important aspects of ductile fracture such as stress triaxiality. This work describes a number of contributions to further develop phase-field models for fracture in ductile materials.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by Grants from the Office of Naval Research under contract number N00014-08-1-0992 and the Army Research Office under contract number W911NF-10-1-0216. T.J.R. Hughes, A. Anvari, and C.M. Landis were also supported by ARO grant number W911NF-13-1-0220. This support is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing HPC and visualization resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper. URL: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu.

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  1. Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Box 7908, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Michael J. Borden

  2. Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 201 East 24th St. Stop C0200, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Thomas J. R. Hughes, Chad M. Landis & Isaac J. Lee

  3. Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, 210 East 24th St. Stop C0600, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Thomas J. R. Hughes, Chad M. Landis & Amin Anvari

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Borden, M.J., Hughes, T.J.R., Landis, C.M., Anvari, A., Lee, I.J. (2018). Phase-Field Formulation for Ductile Fracture. In: Oñate, E., Peric, D., de Souza Neto, E., Chiumenti, M. (eds) Advances in Computational Plasticity. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60885-3_3

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