THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS OF DUCTILE FRACTURE UNDER ARBITRARY LOADINGS [Poster #5]

A complete constitutive theory is presented to enable ductile fracture simulations under complex loadings that may involve shear-dominated stress states or even negative triaxialities. The yield criteria accounting for various forms of anisotropy is supplemented with evolution equations to complete the constitutive theory formulation. State-of-the-art ductile fracture theory can only be fully exploited when a robust implementation enabling structural computations is available. This work set out to address the latter within a multisurface framework. A complete constitutive theory of plastic porous materials incorporating homogeneous (HY) and multiple (n) unhomogeneous yieldings (UY), named HUNnY is developed. The capabilities of the new formulation and its implementation are demonstrated by simulating fracture in tension, fracture in shear of top hat specimen and fracture by shear banding. The predictive theory promises to completely change our understanding of some of these most challenging problems that remained elusive for decades.
EXTENDED ABSTRACT