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Yves-Patrick Pellegrini

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arXiv2009

On probabilistic aspects in the dynamic degradation of ductile materials

Dynamic loadings produce high stress waves leading to the spallation of ductile materials such as aluminum, copper, magnesium or tantalum. The main mechanism used herein to explain the change of the number of cavities with the stress rate is nucleation inhibition, as induced by the growth of already nucleated cavities. The dependence of the spall strength and critical time with the loading rate is investigated in the framework of a probabilistic model. The present approach, which explains previous experimental findings on the strain-rate dependence of the spall strength, is applied to analyze experimental data on tantalum.

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arXiv2009

Infinite-contrast periodic composites with strongly nonlinear behavior: Effective-medium theory versus full-field simulations

This paper presents a combined numerical-theoretical study of the macroscopic behavior and local field distributions in a special class of two-dimensional periodic composites with viscoplastic phases. The emphasis is on strongly nonlinear materials containing pores or rigid inclusions. Full-field numerical simulations are carried out using a Fast-Fourier Transform algorithm [H. Moulinec, P. Suquet, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris II 318, 1417 (1994)], while the theoretical results are obtained by means of the `second-order' nonlinear homogenization method [P. Ponte Castaneda, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 50, 737 (2002)]. The effect of nonlinearity and inclusion concentration is investigated in the context of power-law (with strain-rate sensitivity m) behavior for the matrix phase under in-plane shear loadings. Overall, the `second-order' estimates are found to be in good agreement with the numerical simulations, with the best agreement for the rigidly reinforced materials. For the porous systems, as the nonlinearity increases (m decreases), the strain field is found to localize along shear bands passing through the voids (the strain fluctuations becoming unbounded) and the effective stress exhibits a singular behavior in the dilute limit. More specifically, for small porosities and fixed nonlinearity m>0, the effective stress decreases linearly with increasing porosity. However, for ideally plastic behavior (m = 0), the dependence on porosity becomes non-analytic. On the other hand, for rigidly-reinforced composites, the strain field adopts a tile pattern with bounded strain fluctuations, and no singular behavior is observed (to leading order) in the dilute limit.

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arXiv2008

Effective-medium theory for infinite-contrast, 2D-periodic, linear composites with strongly anisotropic matrix behavior: dilute limit and cross-over behavior

The overall behavior of a 2D lattice of voids embedded in an anisotropic matrix is investigated in the limit of vanishing porosity f. An effective-medium model (of the Hashin-Shtrikman type) which accounts for elastic interactions between neighboring voids, is compared to Fast Fourier Transform numerical solutions and, in the limits of infinite anisotropy, to exact results. A cross-over between regular and singular dilute regimes is found, driven by a characteristic length which depends on f and on the anisotropy strength. The singular regime, where the leading dilute correction to the elastic moduli is an O(f^{1/2}), is related to strain localization and to change in character - from elliptic to hyperbolic - of the governing equations.

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arXiv2008

Fast Fourier Transform computations and build-up of plastic deformation in 2D, elastic-perfectly plastic, pixelwise disordered porous media

Stress and strain fields in a two-dimensional pixelwise disordered system are computed by a Fast Fourier Transform method. The system, a model for a ductile damaged medium, consists of an elastic-perfectly matrix containing void pixels. Its behavior is investigated under equibiaxial or shear loading. We monitor the evolution with loading of plastically deformed zones, and we exhibit a nucleation / growth / coalescence scenario of the latter. Identification of plastic ``clusters'' is eased by using a discrete Green function implementing equilibrium and continuity at the level of one pixel. Observed morphological regimes are put into correspondence with some features of the macroscopic stress / strain curves.

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arXiv2007

Localization of elastic deformation in strongly anisotropic, porous, linear materials with periodic microstructures: exact solutions and dilute expansions

Exact solutions are derived for the problem of a two-dimensional, infinitely anisotropic, linear-elastic medium containing a periodic lattice of voids. The matrix material possesses either one infinitely soft, or one infinitely hard loading direction, which induces localized (singular) field configurations. The effective elastic moduli are computed as functions of the porosity in each case. Their dilute expansions feature half-integer powers of the porosity, which can be correlated to the localized field patterns. Statistical characterizations of the fields, such as their first moments and their histograms are provided, with particular emphasis on the singularities of the latter. The behavior of the system near the void close packing fraction is also investigated. The results of this work shed light on corresponding results for strongly nonlinear porous media, which have been obtained recently by means of the ``second-order'' homogenization method, and where the dilute estimates also exhibit fractional powers of the porosity.

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arXiv2000

Field distributions and effective-medium approximation for weakly nonlinear media

An effective-medium theory is proposed for random weakly nonlinear dielectric media. It is based on a new gaussian approximation for the probability distributions of the electric field in each component of a multi-phase composite. These distributions are computed to linear order from a Bruggeman-like self-consistent formula. The resulting effective-medium formula for the nonlinear medium reduces to Bruggeman's in the linear case. It is exact up to second order in a weak-disorder expansion, and close to the exact result in the dilute limit (in particular, it is exact for d=1 and d=infinity. In a high contrast situation, the noise exponents are kappa=kappa'=0 near the percolation threshold. Numerical results are provided for different weak nonlinearities.

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arXiv2000

Self-Consistent Effective-Medium Approximations with Path Integrals

We study effective-medium approximations for linear composite media by means of a path integral formalism with replicas. We show how to recover the Bruggeman and Hori-Yonezawa effective-medium formulas. Using a replica-coupling ansatz, these formulas are extended into new ones which have the same percolation thresholds as that of the Bethe lattice and Potts model of percolation, and critical exponents s=0 and t=2 in any space dimension d>= 2. Like the Bruggeman and Hori-Yonezawa formulas, the new formulas are exact to second order in the weak-contrast and dilute limits. The dimensional range of validity of the four effective-medium formulas is discussed, and it is argued that the new ones are of better relevance than the classical ones in dimensions d=3,4 for systems obeying the Nodes-Links-Blobs picture, such as random-resistor networks.

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