Ron H. J. Peerlings

TL;DR: The aim is to render the method transparent and accessible, whereby researchers that are new to this method should be able to implement it efficiently, and the potential of this method is demonstrated using two examples, each with a different material model.

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlocal damage-plasticity framework is developed which allows to describe the evolution of ductile damage in a continuum sense, and the role of the stress triaxiality in triggering ductile failure is taken into account by using a triaxiallyity-dependent local damage-driving variable, whose nonlocal counterpart acts as a localisation limiter.

TL;DR: In this article, a crack direction criterion is proposed, which is validated for both failure cases and which is capable of capturing the experimentally observed abrupt tensile-shear transition, and a consistent transfer algorithm and a crack relaxation method are proposed and implemented for this purpose.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a system of parallel straight edge dislocations and analyse its asymptotic behavior in the limit of many dislocations. But their results are restricted to the case where the number of walls tends to infinity, and characterise this behaviour in terms of convergence.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combined approach towards ductile damage and fracture is presented, in the sense that a continuous material degradation is coupled with a discrete crack description for large deformations.