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The T-criterion for ductile fractures in HRR plastic singular fields

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When a material exhibits large amounts of plastic deformation before failure, with a continuous evolution of the elastic-plastic boundaries around the crack tip the assumptions made by all criteria based on linear fracture mechanics (LEFM) are no longer valid.

The necessary modifications of the T-criterion, for adapting it to elastic-plastic solutions, are presented here together with an illustrative example, comprising the case of the definition of the T-criterion by means of the singular plastic solutions of Hutchinson, Rice and Rosengren, henceforth denoted HRR, together with its mixed-mode extension studied by Shih [1–4]. It was shown that the T-criterion is still valid for elastic-plastic cases provided the components of energy are appropriately defined

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Lorsqu'un matériau fait état de grandes déformations plastiques avant rupture, accompagnées d'une évolution continue des frontières entre élasticité et plasticité autour de l'extrémité de la fissure, les hypothèses associées à tous les critères basés sur la théorie de la mécanique de la rupture linéaire et élastique ne sont plus guère valables.

Les modifications nécessaires à apporter au critère T pour l'adapter aux solutions élasto-plastiques sont présentées et sont illustrées par un exemple. Ces modifications portent sur la définition du critère T à l'aide des solutions plastiques singulières de Hutchinson, Rice et Rosengren, dénommées HRR, et sur leur extension pour un mode mixte, telle qu'étudiée par Shih.

On montre que le critère T est encore valable pour les cas d'élasto-plasticité pour autant que les composantes de l'énergie soient bien définies

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Theocaris, P.S., Philippidis, T.P. The T-criterion for ductile fractures in HRR plastic singular fields. Int J Fract 35, 21–37 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034532

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