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This paper investigates the interaction between a macroscopic crack and microscopic damage in an elastic-plastic and viscoplastic material subjected to tensile in-plane loading. The aim is to predict the fracture conditions by accounting for void accumulation in the vicinity of the crack-tip. A power law relates the stress to the strain of the material. The damage, which invokes the growth and coalescence of microvoids, is confined to a small circular zone surrounding the crack-tip. At the onset of crack extension, the applied stress for small-scale and large-scale yielding solutions is found to be proportional to a0 -1/(n+1), where 2a0is the initial crack length and n is the strain hardening exponent of the material. For small-scale yielding, the conditions required for fatigue crack growth and steady-state creep are determined. In particular, the variations of the normalized crack length with the number of loading cycles and the time required for failure are shown for various strain hardening exponents, applied loading, and material damage parameters.
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Mahmoud, K.M., Kassir, M.K. Damage Field Ahead of a Tensile Crack in an Elastic-Plastic and Viscoplastic Material. International Journal of Fracture 96, 149–166 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018632722656
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