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From Single Crystal to Polycrystal Plasticity: Overview of Main Approaches

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the different continuum mechanics approaches used to describe the deformation behavior of either single crystals or individual grains in polycrystalline metallic materials. The crucial role that physics-based crystal plasticity approaches may play in understanding the mechanisms of damage initiation and growth is addressed. This includes a discussion of the main strain gradient constitutive approaches used to describe size effects in crystalline solids. Finally, representative examples are given about the effect of the local stress and strain fields in the mechanisms of intergranular damage initiation and growth in FCC polycrystal materials.

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Busso, E.P. (2015). From Single Crystal to Polycrystal Plasticity: Overview of Main Approaches. In: Voyiadjis, G. (eds) Handbook of Damage Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5589-9_7

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