Publisher Summary An important failure mechanism in ductile metals and their alloys is by
growth and coalescence of microscopic voids. In structural materials, the voids nucleate at …

This is the first of three overviews on failure of metals. Here, brittle and ductile failure under
monotonic loadings are addressed within the context of the local approach to fracture. In this …

Ductile damage and fracture prediction in real size structures subjected to complex loading
conditions has been of utmost interest in the scientific and engineering community in the …

Hard magnetorheological elastomers (h-MREs) are essentially two phase composites
comprising permanently magnetizable metallic inclusions suspended in a soft elastomeric …

Ductile fracture of structural metals occurs mainly by the nucleation, growth and coalescence
of voids. Here an overview of continuum models for this type of failure is given. The most …

This work makes use of a recently developed “second-order” homogenization model to
investigate failure in porous elasto-plastic solids under general triaxial loading conditions …

The effective material response of ductile metals containing spherical pores at volume
fractions between 0.1% and 30% is investigated on a computational basis. Periodic hard …

In this paper, we have investigated void growth in von Mises materials which contain
realistic porous microstructures. For that purpose, we have performed finite element …

Plastic constitutive relations are derived for a class of anisotropic porous materials
consisting of coaxial spheroidal voids, arbitrarily oriented relative to the embedding …

The present paper is concerned with multi-axial ductile fracture experiments on sheet
metals. Different stress-states are achieved within a flat specimen by applying different …