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A model for predicting grain boundary cracking in polycrystalline viscoplastic materials including scale effects

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A model is developed herein for predicting the mechanical response of inelastic crystalline solids. Particular emphasis is given to the development of microstructural damage along grain boundaries, and the interaction of this damage with intragranular inelasticity caused by dislocation dissipation mechanisms. The model is developed within the concepts of continuum mechanics, with special emphasis on the development of internal boundaries in the continuum by utilizing a cohesive zone model based on fracture mechanics. In addition, the crystalline grains are assumed to be characterized by nonlinear viscoplastic mechanical material behavior in order to account for dislocation generation and migration. Due to the nonlinearities introduced by the crack growth and viscoplastic constitution, a numerical algorithm is utilized to solve representative problems. Implementation of the model to a finite element computational algorithm is therefore briefly described. Finally, sample calculations are presented for a polycrystalline titanium alloy with particular focus on effects of scale on the predicted response.

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    K.L.E. Helms & D.H. Allen

  2. Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, 88101

    L.D. Hurtado

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Helms, K., Allen, D. & Hurtado, L. A model for predicting grain boundary cracking in polycrystalline viscoplastic materials including scale effects. International Journal of Fracture 95, 175–194 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018696101352

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