Publisher Summary This chapter describes the material failure by coalescence of
microscopic voids. The voids nucleate mainly at second phase particles, by decohesion of …

This article presents an overview on modeling of micromechanical failure processes in
nodular cast iron, a material used for many engineering applications. Depending on the …

A n elastic-Viscoplastic model of a ductile, porous solid is used to study the influence of the
nucleation and growth of micro-voids in the material near the tip of a crack. Conditions of …

Many metals which fail by a void growth mechanism display a macroscopically planar
fracture process zone of one or two void spacings in thickness characterized by intense …

In this study, the effect of trace addition of Ag on the microstructure, tensile strength, and
fracture toughness of novel Al-Mg-Zn alloys was evaluated using transmission electron …

Many metals that fail by void growth and coalescence display a macroscopically planar
fracture process zone of one or two void spacings in thickness; outside this region, the voids …

Dynamic crack growth is analysed numerically for a plane strain double edge cracked
specimen subject to symmetric impulsive tensile loading at the two ends. The material …

Fracture toughness or critical stress intensity factor of many steels can be reduced by
hydrogen gas. In this paper, a simple quantitative model to predict the fracture toughness of …

Large deformation finite element analysis has been used to study the near crack tip growth
of long cylindrical holes aligned parallel to the plane of a mode I plane strain crack. The near …

An inelastic rate-dependent crystalline constitutive formulation and specialized
computational schemes have been developed and used to obtain a detailed understanding …