This paper presents the two uncoupled elastoplastic-damage models; Lemaitre’s and Vaz’s damage models. The models are implemented into finite element ABAQUS software using user routine UMAT to analyze predict evolution. In context of von-Mises yield criteria, variable fracture indicator predicted, in addition stress effective plastic strain. Both elastoplastic tangent operator return mapping pr...

This paper is concerned with the problem of plastic zone at the tip of an edge crack in an isotropic elastoplastic strip under anti-plane deformations. By means of complex potential and Dugdale model, the stress intensity factor and the size of plastic zone are obtained in closed-form. Furthermore, the analytic solutions for an edge crack at the free boundary of a half-space and a semi-infinite...

The main subject of this paper is the detailed description of an algorithm solving elastoplastic deformations. Our concern is a one time-step problem, for which the minimization of a convex but non-smooth functional is required. We propose a minimization algorithm based on the reduction of the functional to a quadratic functional in the displacement and the plastic strain increment omitting a c...

In this Letter, we explore the relations between tracer diffusion and flow heterogeneities in amorphous materials. On the basis of scaling arguments and an extensive numerical study of an athermal elastoplastic model, we show that there is a direct link between the self-diffusion coefficient and the size of cooperative regions at low strain rates. Both depend strongly on rate and system size. T...

Time-dependent buckling phenomena of polysilicon micro beams have been demonstrated and reported. These beams are suspended 2 mm above the silicon substrate with dimensions of 100 mm (length) × 2 mm (width) × 2 mm (thickness). When a constant input current is supplied at or above a threshold value, electro-thermally induced buckling occurs. It is observed and recorded that the beams exhibit tim...