Damage and fracture loci for a dual-phase steel and a highstrength low-alloyed steel: revealing the different plastic localization-damage-ductile fracture pattern

摘要

The ductile fracture locus has been developed in the recent years as a relevant tool to predict the ductile fracture and assess the structure safety. In the various developed models, the occurrence of the final fracture or the initiation of the fracture is considered as the critical phase of deformation for materials or structures. However, in the application of highstrength steels, the damage onset and evolution are of significant importance in the forming processes, as they are naturally interacting with the plastic localization and ductile fracture and eventually creating various possible failure patterns. The present study contributes to a demonstration of the differences of these features in different steels by quantitatively comparing the material parameters of a hybrid damage mechanics model. A dual-phase steel sheet (DP600) and a highstrength low-alloy steel plate (S355J2+N), which show very different relation patterns between damage and fracture, are investigated. The aim of this study is to compare the plastic localization, damage and fracture loci of them and reveal the differences in their localization-damage initiation-ductile fracture patterns. The reasons for the observed different patterns are discussed and it is concluded that the micro structural features are ultimately contributing to the different patterns and the criteria for evaluating the cold formability of these steels shall be varied depending on their failure patterns.