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 …

The past 20 years have seen substantial work on the modeling of ductile damage and
fracture. Several factors explain this interest.(i) There is a growing demand to provide tools …

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 …

This work outlines a rigorous variational-based framework for the phase field modeling of
ductile fracture in elastic–plastic solids undergoing large strains. The phase field approach …

Intended as a first introduction to the micromechanics of porous media, this book entitled
“Microporomechanics” deals with the mechanics and physics of multiphase porous materials …

Publisher Summary This chapter elaborates some closely related methods developed to
estimate the effective behavior of nonlinear composites with random microstructures. The …

This paper reviews the most recent models for description of the anisotropic plastic behavior
and formability of sheet metals. After a brief review of classic isotropic yield functions, recent …

The aim of this paper is to incorporate plastic anisotropy into constitutive equations of porous
ductile metals. It is shown that plastic anisotropy of the matrix surrounding the voids in a …

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 …

Understanding the elastoplastic deformation of metals and geomaterials, including the
constitutive description of the materials and analysis of structure undergoing plastic …