A two scale damage concept applied to fatigue

The ductile type of damage is a phenomenon now well understood. Once the fully coupled set of constitutive equations is identified, Damage Mechanics is a powerful tool to predict failure. Brittle materials do not exhibit such a damageable macroscopic behavior. Nevertheless, they still fail. On the idea that damage is localized at the microscopic scale, a scale smaller than the mesoscopic one of the Representative Volume Element (RVE), we propose a three-dimensional failure modeling for monotonic as well as for fatigue loading. We develop a two scale model of what we shall call brittle damage: at the microscopic scale, micro-cracks or micro-voids exhibit a damageable plastic-like behavior with no effect on the global (mesoscopic) elastic behavior. Microscopic failure is assumed to coincide with the RVE failure. This model turns out to represent quite well physical phenomena related to high cycle fatigue such as the mean stress effect, the nonlinear accumulation of damage, initial strain hardening or damage effect and the nonproportional loading effect for bi-axial fatigue. The model has been implemented as a post-processor computer code. A simplified identification procedure for the determination of the material properties is given.

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