An enhanced void-crack-based Rousselier damage model for ductile fracture with the XFEM

What is it about?

The aim of this paper is to develop the connection between the micromechanical constitutive damage model and crack development, in which the Rousselier-UMAT-XFEM (RuX) model is proposed and used to represent an extensive analysis of ductile damage with a crack in the material.

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Why is it important?

This is an exciting new achievement by implementing the XFEM solution in the constitutive Rousselier damage model, which gives benefit in terms of the mathematical formulation to predict the void damage together with the crack development of the ductile materials.