Abstract
Ductility takes into account the material capability to plastically deform. This parameter is not only modified by temperature but it is strongly affected by the stress triaxiality that, in the case of positive hydrostatic stress, reduces the material strain to failure. Due to the importance of this parameter in engineering design many attempts to predict the evolution of ductility with stress triaxiality have been done. Here, a nonlinear continuum damage model, as proposed by the author, is used to obtain the evolution of material ductility with stress triaxiality. The expression found relates the strain to failure in multi-axial state of stress regime only to the uniaxial strain to failure, to the damage strain threshold, to the material Poisson's ratio, and, of course, to stress triaxiality. The proposed model was successfully verified comparing the predicted evolution of material ductility with the experimental data relative to several metals. The procedure for the damage parameters identification is also discussed in details.
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Bonora, N. On the Effect of Triaxial State of Stress on Ductility Using Nonlinear CDM Model. International Journal of Fracture 88, 359–371 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007479522972
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