Ductile rupture in metals is a phenomenon that affects a wide range of applications from
forming of automotive body panels to failure of pressure vessels. The incipient stage …

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 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 …

We propose a versatile approach to computing the effective toughness of heterogeneous
media. This approach focusses on the material property independent of the details of the …

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 …

We investigated the microstructure, impact toughness, and pitting corrosion resistance of
duplex stainless steel (DSS) welding joints fabricated by using gas tungsten arc welding …

The most widely used phenomenological constitutive relation to model ductile failure of
structural metals at room temperature is based on the work of Gurson (1977) and has the …

This work aims to give a comprehensive and accurate view of those micromechanical
models that have been developed over the past two decades by our research team. We …

Biological materials such as nacre, bone and spider silk boast unusual combinations of
stiffness, strength and toughness. Behind this performance is the staggered arrangement of …

Inclusions have a significant impact on the properties of steel. The composite inclusions of
MnS-Al 2 O 3 in high speed wheel steel largely reduce the stress concentration around the …