Authors: Carlos Alberto Hernandez Padilla Bernd Markert
Publish Date: 2015/08/20
Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 1017-1026
Abstract
Nowadays crack initiation and evolution play a key role in the design of mechanical components In the past few decades several numerical approaches have been developed with the objective to predict these phenomena The objective of this work is to present a simplified nonetheless representative phenomenological model to predict the crack evolution of ductile fracture in single crystals The proposed numerical approach is carried out by merging a conventional elastoplastic crystal plasticity model and a phasefield model modified to predict ductile fracture A twodimensional initial boundary value problem of ductile fracture is introduced considering a singlecrystal setup and Nickelbase superalloy material properties The model is implemented into the finite element context subjected to a quasistatic uniaxial tension test The results are then qualitatively analyzed and briefly compared to current benchmark results in the literature
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