Modelling of interfacial viscoplastic slip coupled to damage in a polycrystalline microstructure

Abstract

The mesomechanics behavior of a polycrystalline microstructure subjected to creep and constant strain rate loadings is investigated. The analysis is based on a Voronoi polygonization strategy for the generation of grains, that are bonded to each other via interfaces along the grain boundaries. A new constitutive model is proposed for the rate-dependent debonding along these interfaces, whereby damage is kinetically coupled to viscoplastic slip and dilatation. The paper may be viewed as generalizing the rate-independent model used in Cannmo et al. (1995).