Propagation of cracks in ductile materials is well known to occur through two possible
mechanisms: coalescence of cavities and formation of shear bands ('void sheet …

A n approximate continuum model of a ductile, porous material is used to study the influence
of the nucleation and growth of micro-voids on the formation of shear bands and the …

The aim of this work is to pursue the modeling of the influence of inclusions upon the
behavior of porous ductile materials, initiated in Part I devoted to void growth prior to …

The effect of microscopic voids on the failure mechanism of a ductile material is investigated
by considering an elastic-plastic medium containing a boubly periodic array of circular …

The macroscopic fracture in plane strain is known to be shear-like in ductile materials. In
most structural materials, fracture starts after diffuse necking, at the centre of the specimen …

An extension of Gurson's famous model (Gurson, 1977) of porous plastic solids,
incorporating void shape effects, has recently been proposed by Madou and Leblond …

Experiments have shown that in porous ductile materials, cyclic loadings lead to lower
fracture strains than monotone ones. The effect has been tentatively ascribed to a continued …

Micromechanics-based constitutive relations are developed to model plasticity in solids with
relatively high levels of porosity. They are especially appropriate to model void coalescence …

Two modes of plastic flow localization commonly occur in the ductile fracture of structural
metals undergoing damage and failure by the mechanism involving void nucleation, growth …

Plastic anisotropy in the form of texture development and void shape evolution can
significantly affect damage growth rates and overall strain to failure in ductile materials. A …