Estimation of damage in high strength steels

Damage is controlled by the chemistry of the material, initial inclusions or second phase particles’ fractions with their size/shape distribution, stress triaxility, strain, stress, strain rate, strain path, grain size, initial crystallographic micro-texture and the temperature of deformation. In this study, a model has been developed to correlate the complex relationship between the extent of damage accumulations (i.e., void area fraction) with...