Plasticity damage self-consistent model incorporating stress triaxiality and shear controlled fracture mechanisms – Model verification and validation

The plasticity damage self-consistent (PDSC) model is a damage model developed in the context of continuum damage mechanics in which the damage dissipation potential is formulated to account for damage contributions due to intervoid necking, shearing, and sheeting for an arbitrary stress state. The synergic action of different micromechanisms contributing to ductile fracture is accounted for by their dependence on the plastic deformation, stress triaxiality, third invariant of the deviatoric of the stress tensor, and unilateral conditions. In this work, the PDSC has been implemented in the commercial finite element code MSC MARC via user subroutines and used to predict ductile failure response under different stress state conditions. Firstly, the model implementation has been verified by comparing calculated damage evolution as a function of plastic strain, for prescribed combinations of stress triaxiality and Lode parameter under proportional loading, with an analytical solution. Successively, the model has been validated in predicting ductile fracture for Al6061-T6 in different specimen geometries and comparing with experiment results. Model capability to anticipate fracture initiation conditions, together with specimen global response, and ductile crack propagation also for complex load paths, is demonstrated.