Relationship of strain hardening and damage in ductile fracture

The majority of theories of ductile fracture consider the values of the imposed strains needed to initiate and grow voids. However, in describing the microstructural damage resulting from the production and growth of voids, it is important to consider the spatial distribution of the damage in relation to the microstructure. It is shown that the process of void initiation is dominated by the location and size of second-phase particles rather …