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Modeling of local strains in ductile fracture

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The concept of dividing microvoid coalescence (MVC) ductile fracture into three constituent processes, nucleation, growth, and coalescence, is discussed, with emphasis on needs for additional analytical and experimental work. Statistical and stochastic aspects of the problem are presented. Recent work on modeling of local strains during ductile fracture, and particularly as components of fracture toughness, is summarized and discussed in light of current knowledge of ductile fracture. Such local strain modeling is especially attractive because it permits micromechanisms of fracture to be explicitly included in the fracture model.

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This paper is based on a presentation made at the symposium “Stochastic Aspects of Fracture” held at the 1986 annual AIME meeting in New Orleans, LA, on March 2-6, 1986, under the auspices of the ASM/MSD Flow and Fracture Committee.

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Thompson, A.W. Modeling of local strains in ductile fracture. Metall Trans A 18, 1877–1886 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02647017

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