Fractal pattern formation at elastic-plastic transition in heterogeneous materials

Details Fractal pattern formation at elastic-plastic transition in heterogeneous materials Fractal pattern formation at elastic-plastic transition in heterogeneous materials

2009-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0906.3351v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly-plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random fluctuations in elastic moduli and/or yield limits; and (2) a polycrystal made of randomly oriented anisotropic grains. In each case, the spatial assignment of material randomness is a non-fractal, strict-white-noise field on a 256 x 256 square lattice of homogeneous, square-shaped grains; the flow rule in each grain follows associated plasticity. These lattices are subjected to simple shear loading increasing through either one of three macroscopically uniform boundary conditions (kinematic, mixed-orthogonal or traction), admitted by the Hill-Mandel condition. Upon following the evolution of a set of grains that become plastic, we find that it has a fractal dimension increasing from 0 towards 2 as the material transitions from elastic to perfectly-plastic. While the grains possess sharp elastic-plastic stress-strain curves, the overall stress-strain responses are smooth and asymptote toward perfectly-plastic flows; these responses and the fractal dimension-strain curves are almost identical for three different loadings. The randomness in elastic moduli alone is sufficient to generate fractal patterns at the transition, but has a weaker effect than the randomness in yield limits. In the model with isotropic grains, as the random fluctuations vanish (i.e. the composite becomes a homogeneous body), a sharp elastic-plastic transition is recovered.

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