Recent progress in micromechanics-based approaches to ductile fracture
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Date: 2022-02-20

Lecture by Professor T. Pardoen of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, discussing progress on the characterisation and modelling of void nucleation, and new non-local version of an extended Gurson model with shear and tensile coalescence yield surfaces.

There are many interesting observations, including the fact that void nucleation on particles becomes more difficult at small particle sizes. The initial porosity has a large effect on the final fracture strain.