ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Ductile fracture processes for discrete crack propagation using nodal release approach iswell established for modelling crack in metal sheet. In this method, the crack is assumed to initiateor propagate along the element edges; hence, a new crack is implemented in the FE mesh. InBlanking process, the crack trajectory is unknown; therefore a very fine mesh is required tosimulate a realistic crack propagation using the nodal release method. Consequently, the nodalrelease method has to be modified in which first the direction of crack extension is calculated andthen, accordingly, the local element topology near the crack-tip is modified such that the nodes ofelements are moved to predicted crack-tip in order to accommodate the crack extension. Theadvantage of this method is that it is possible to model the predicted crack with only slightmodification in the local mesh near to the crack tip. However, it is necessary to transfer historyvariables from old local elements of previous increment to the new local elements of the currentincrement at the vicinity of crack-tip. But this method can lead to slight loss of accuracy to predictthe subsequent crack extension due to interpolations. However, the advantage of this method is thatremeshing can be either completely eliminated or reduced to a greater extend during the simulation.Therefore, in this paper, modified nodal release method for modelling ductile crack propagationin blanking process with the uncoupled damage approach is presented, and is further implementedin commercial FE software - MSC.Marc® together with predefined user-subroutines
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/54/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.344.201.pdf
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