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Effects of microvoids on crack blunting and initiation in ductile materials

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Effects of microvoid nucleation and growth on the stress and strain fields near a crack tip are studied by employing the Gurson's constitutive model of porous plastic solids and by using a finite element method suitably formulated to admit large geometry change. It is shown that microvoids nucleate and grow rapidly in the region at a distance less than the blunted tip diameter away from the crack tip and have a great influence on the stress fields therein. Effects of a large void near a crack tip on crack initiation are also investigated by taking the shear localization into account. The critical value of the crack tip opening displacement predicted by the present investigation is shown to coincide with the published experimental data.

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On examine les effets d'une nucléation et d'une croissance de micro-cavités sur les champs de contrainte et de déformation au voisinage de l'extrémité d'une fissure en recourant au modèle constitutif de Gurson pour les solides poreux plastiques, et en utilisant une méthode par éléments finis formulée de manière à admettre des modifications importantes de géométrie. On montre que les microcavités coalescent et croissent rapidement en avant de la fissure sur une distance inférieure au diamètre qu'atteint l'arrondissement de la fissure et qu'elles ont une grande influence sur le champ de contrainte qui règne dans cette région. On étudie également l'influence d'une grande lacune au voisinage de l'extrémité d'une fissure sur l'amorçage de la cassure, en prenant en compte le cisaillement local. On montre que la valeur critique du COD à l'extrémité de la fissure telle que prédite par la présente étude coïncide avec les données expérimentales de la littérature.

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Aoki, S., Kishimoto, K., Takeya, A. et al. Effects of microvoids on crack blunting and initiation in ductile materials. Int J Fract 24, 267–278 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020741

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