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Every year, fracture imposes high economic costs and casualties to all societies. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific approach to this issue has lead to invention of a new branch in mechanics, called fracture mechanics. In general, fracture problems fall into two categories. Brittle fracture, like what happens in glass, in which, few plastic deformations and energy absorption occurs and ductile fracture, which is preceded by large plastic deformations and energy absorption. This kind of fracture is usual in ductile metals like low carbon steel. Finite Element which is considered as the most important numerical method in the mechanics of materials, is also, widely used in... 

In this thesis, based on the combination of Extended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) and appropriate material constitutive models, an efficient method is proposed to model ductile fracture under quasi-static, cyclic and dynamic conditions. X-FEM is a novel method in which with the use of appropriate enrichment functions, discontinuity geometry is separated from the computational mesh and hence the need for a remeshing step is alleviated. The non-linear material behavior in the crack tip process zone can best be modeled with methods based on continuum damage mechanics. These methods model the ductile fracture mechanisms, phenomenologically. In this thesis, in order to model the ductile... 

Reduced beam section connection was one of the connections that were introduced and prequalified by SAC project to replace pre-northridge connections. This connection reduces both flanges of the beam at appropriate distances from beam to column connection to make a fuse protecting welds from brittle fracture. The RBS is prequalified in limited span-to-depth ratio, for designing this connection for short and deep beams may effect its performance. Since these limitations are based on limited experiments, forty three numerical models were analysed to recheck them in this study. These models are verified based on two published experiments and are capable of predicting all known yield mechanisms... 

The present study looks into the fracture of perforated steel plates and their sensitivity in ductile fracture. It also examines the effects of strain rise phenomenon in these specimens. The main employed fracture model is VGM, which was first introduced by Rice and Tracey, and later enhanced by Kanvinde et al.. The general methodology includes finite element simulation and lab experiments on perforated plates, to determine ductility, strain concentration in hole periphery and model sensitivity. Fot thid purpose 86 steel sheet specimen with different holes and cuts were manufactured and tested. With the acquired data, the impact of strain concentration on the load carrying capabilities and... 

In the present study the production of ferrite-martensite dual-phase (DP) Steel was investigated during the bonding process by transient liquid phase method. The effect of martensite morphologies on mechanical properties of bonding zone were also studied. To make the bonding process and DP steel production heat treatment cycle simultaneously, the step in which the isothermal solidification completed, bonding process, was done simultaneously with austenitising of the steel. Homogenizing of the bond zone, was also done with DP steel making at the intercritical temperature. The St52 steel was utilized for producing DP steel and for bonding process, iron base interlayer with melting point of... 

Recent research studies on ductile fracture of metals have shown that the ductile fracture initiation is significantly affected by the stress state. In this study, the effects of the stress invariants as well as the effect of the reverse loading on ductile fracture are considered. To estimate the reduction of load carrying capacity and ductile fracture initiation, a scalar damage expression is proposed. This scalar damage is a function of the accumulated plastic strain, the first stress invariant and the Lode angle. To incorporate the effect of the reverse loading, the accumulated plastic strain is divided into the tension and compression components and each component has a different weight...