Related void damage criteria including nucleation, growth and coalescence are then discussed in detail: how they are improved, when and where they are used in the model, and how the model performs in comparison with the existing models.
1 Introduction to Ductile Fracture Modelling.- 2 Averaging Methods for Computational Micromechanics.- 3 Anisotropy.- 4 Void Growth to Coalescence: Unit Cell and Analytical Modelling.- 5 Two-Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation Modeling.- 6 Two-Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation/Finite Element Modeling of Sheet Metal Forming.- 7 Two Dimensional (2D) Damage Percolation with Stress State.- 8 Three-Dimensional Particle Fields.- 9 Estimation of the Stress State within Particles and Inclusions and a Nucleation Model for Particle Cracking.- 10 Modelling Void Growth to Coalescence in a 3-D Particle Field.- 11 Application of the Complete Percolation Model.- References.