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Mechanical behavior of materials with granular microstructures is confounded by unique features of their grain-scale mechano-morphology, such as the tension–compression asymmetry of grain interactions and irregular grain structure. Continuum models, necessary for the macro-scale description of these materials, must link to the grain-scale behavior to describe the consequences of this mechano-morphology. Here, we consider the damage behavior of these materials based upon purely mechanical concepts utilizing energy and variational approach. Granular micromechanics is accounted for through Piola’s ansatz and objective kinematic descriptors obtained for grain-pair relative displacement in granular materials undergoing finite deformations. Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT)-type conditions that provide the evolution equations for grain-pair damage and Euler–Lagrange equations for evolution of grain-pair relative displacement are derived based upon a non-standard (hemivariational) variational approach. The model applicability is illustrated for particular form of grain-pair elastic energy and dissipation functionals through numerical examples. Results show interesting damage-induced anisotropy evolution including the emergence of a type of chiral behavior and formation of finite localization zones.
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Micromechanics-based elasto-plastic–damage energy formulation for strain gradient solids with granular microstructure
This paper is devoted to the development of a continuum theory for materials having granular microstructure and accounting for some dissipative phenomena like damage and plasticity. The continuum description is constructed by means of purely mechanical concepts, assuming expressions of elastic and dissipation energies as well as postulating a hemi-variational principle, without incorporating any additional postulate like flow rules. Granular micromechanics is connected kinematically to the continuum scale through Piola's ansatz. Mechanically meaningful objective kinematic descriptors aimed at accounting for grain-grain relative displacements in finite deformations are proposed. Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) type conditions, providing evolution equations for damage and plastic variables associated to grain-grain interactions, are derived solely from the fundamental postulates. Numerical experiments have been performed to investigate the applicability of the model. Cyclic loading-unloading histories have been considered to elucidate the material-hysteretic features of the continuum, which emerge from simple grain-grain interactions. We also assess the competition between damage and plasticity, each having an effect on the other. Further, the evolution of the load-free shape is shown not only to assess the plastic behavior, but also to make tangible the point that, in the proposed approach, plastic strain is found to be intrinsically compatible with the existence of a placement function.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1727433
- PAR ID:
- 10276140
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- ISSN:
- 0935-1175
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-021-01023-1
