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 …

Recent developments in engineering and technology have brought about serious and
enlarged demands for reliability, safety and economy in wide range of fields such as …

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 …

Many solids, including geomaterials and commercially available metallic alloys, can be
considered as a porous media. The Gurson-like model has been proposed to describe …

A damage plasticity model for ductile fracture is proposed. This model is established on the
cylindrical coordinate system of principal stress space. Experimental results show that …

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 …

Ductile fracture is often considered as the consequences of the accumulation of plastic
damage. This paper is concerned with the application of a recently developed damage …

In this paper, the continuum damage mechanics (CDM) model formulation proposed by
[Eng. Fract. Mech. 58 (1/2)(1997) 11] has been validated against ductile damage evolution …