Molecular dynamics (MD) shows a difference in the mechanisms of fracture of iron under
uniaxial and isotropic tension. Uniaxial tension leads to the formation of a complex …

The precipitation hardened, high strength aerospace alloys (eg Al 7000 alloy series) suffer
from loss of fracture toughness due to the heat treatment leading to intergranular ductile …

A physically-informed continuum crystal plasticity model is presented to elucidate
deformation mechanisms, dislocation evolution and the non-Schmid effect in body-centered …

Void nucleation on grain boundary (GB) has been regarded as an important mechanism of
damage initiation in ductile polycrystalline materials under dynamic loading. The high …

The present study focuses on the application of an integral-based approach for constructing
non-local ductile damage models. The incorporation of non-locality into the damage …

In this work, the intragranular distributions of the densities of geometrically necessary
dislocations (GNDs) generated in a polycrystalline tantalum (Ta) sample loaded in shock …

Predicting the failure of crystalline materials at high strain rates requires knowledge of the
underlying failure mechanisms and their dependence on microstructure. In this study, a 3D …

Spall strength characterizes the tensile performance of materials under high strain rates.
However, theoretical prediction of the spall strength has long been a big challenge since it …

The integral approach to nonlocal ductile damage is developed to enable numerically stable
and physically reasonable simulations of crack initiation and propagation in metals. A …

Regime switching is ubiquitous in many complex dynamical systems with multiscale
features, chaotic behavior, and extreme events. In this paper, a causation entropy boosting …