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 …

Literature sources have been reviewed, various techniques, methods and software for
investigating fracture of polycrystalline materials have been subjected to the systematic …

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 …

Classical metal plasticity theory assumes that the hydrostatic pressure has no or negligible
effect on the material strain hardening, and that the flow stress is independent of the third …

Recent experimental evidence points to limitations in characterizing the critical strain in
ductile fracture solely on the basis of stress triaxiality. A second measure of stress state, such …

Numerous criteria have been developed for ductile fracture (DF) prediction in metal plastic
deformation. Finding a way to select these DF criteria (DFCs) and identify their applicability …

An experimental investigation of the rupture mechanisms in a mid-strength and a high-
strength steel were conducted employing a novel test configuration. The specimen used was …

The predictive capabilities of the shear-modified Gurson model [Nielsen and Tvergaard,
Eng. Fract. Mech. 77, 2010] and the Modified Mohr–Coulomb (MMC) fracture model [Bai and …

Ductile fracture is inherently a three-dimensional phenomenon and should be represented
in the 3-D space. Sixteen fracture models are evaluated and divided into three groups …

The paper deals with the effect of stress state on the damage behavior of ductile metals. The
continuum damage model has been generalized to take into account the effect of stress …