Recently it was proposed that voids in crystals could grow by emission of shear dislocation loops [V.A. Lubarda, M.S. Scheider, D.H. Kalantar, B.A. Remington, M.A. Meyers, Acta Materialia 52 (2004) 1397–1408]. Even more recently, this proposal was ostensibly supported by molecular simulations of voids in strained single crystals [S. Traiviratana, E.M. Bringa, D.J. Benson, M.A. Meyers, Acta Mate...

New developments in the theory and numerical simulation of a recently proposed one-dimensional nonlinear time-dependent fluid model (Avinash K, Bhattacharjee A and Hu S 2003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 075001) for void formation in dusty plasmas are presented. The model describes an initial instability caused by the ion drag, rapid nonlinear growth, and a nonlinear saturation mechanism that realizes a ...

Abstract A high-cycle accumulation (HCA) model predicting the of permanent strain or excess pore water pressure in clay under a large number load cycles is presented. Data from an extensive laboratory testing program on kaolin undrained cyclic loading has been analysed for that purpose. The influence amplitude, void ratio, stress overconsolidation ratio and frequency rates considered constituti...

THE FRACTURE of ductile solids has frequently been observed to result from the large growth and coalescence of microscopic voids, a process enhanced by the superposition of hydrostatic tensile stresses on a plastic deformation field. The ductile growth of voids is treated here as a problem in continuum plasticity. First, a variational principle is established to characterize the flow field in a...

A comprehensive kinetic analysis was established to investigate the electromigration (EM) enhanced intermetallic compound (IMC) growth and void formation for Sn-based Pb-free solder joints with Cu under bump metallization (UBM). The kinetic model takes into account Cu–Sn interdiffusion and current stressing. Derivation of the diffusion coefficients and the effective charge numbers for the inter...

Two modes of plastic flow localization commonly occur in the ductile fracture of structural metals undergoing damage and failure by the mechanism involving void nucleation, growth and coalescence. The first mode consists of a macroscopic localization, usually linked to the softening effect of void nucleation and growth, in either a normal band or a shear band where the thickness of the band is ...

We introduce a simple model for the formation of voids. In this model the underdensity of galaxies in voids is the product of two factors. The first arises from a gravitational expansion of the negative density perturbation. The second is due to biasing: galaxies are less likely to form in an underdense region. One feature of the model is an upper cutoff in void sizes. We calculate the volume f...

1 Mines ParisTech, Centre des matériaux, CNRS UMR 7633, BP87 91003 Evry Cedex, France [email protected] Flat to slant crack transition can typically be observed in ductile thin sheet materials. The crack initiates perpendicularly to the loading direction from the notch and then turns to 45° with respect to the loading direction during crack propagation. This phenomenon is, how...