A second-moment incremental formulation for the mean-field homogenization of elasto-plastic composites |
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Authors: | I Doghri L BrassartL Adam J-S Gérard |
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Institution: | a Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), CESAME and IMMC, Bâtiment Euler, 4 Avenue G. Lemaître, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium b e-Xstream Engineering SA, 7 Rue du Bosquet, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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Abstract: | In this paper, the incremental formulation for the mean-field homogenization (MFH) of elasto-plastic composites is enriched by including second statistical moments of per-phase strain increment fields, thus combining two advantages. The first one is to handle non-monotonic loading histories and the second is to better account for the heterogeneity of microscopic fields. The proposal is currently restricted to elasto-plasticity with J2 flow theory in each phase, under the small perturbation hypothesis. The formulation crucially exploits the return mapping algorithm for the J2 model, with its two steps: elastic predictor, and plastic corrections. It is shown that the second-moment measure of the average von Mises stress in each phase at the elastic predictor step plays a major role in the computation of both the average stress and the comparison tangent operator. The proposal is implemented for an extended Mori-Tanaka scheme. Predictions are compared to results provided by full-field, finite element computations of representative volume elements or unit cells, for various composite materials, with polymer or metal matrices. There are cases where the predictions of the proposed modeling improve significantly over those of a first-order incremental formulation. |
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Keywords: | Composite materials Elasto-plasticity Incremental formulation Computational micromechanics Mean-field homogenization |
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