Anisotropic behaviour of porous, ductile media (Q5931877)

In the present work, the authors presented a constitutive model to describe the anisotropic behavior of a porous and ductile material. For that, an orthotropic constitutive model for porous, ductile media is developed, which is centered on the micromechanical analysis of a cylindrical representative volume element (RVE) with elliptic cross-section containing a coaxial and confocal elliptic-cylindrical cavity. The constitutive model is obtained in the case of a rigid ideally plastic behavior of the matrix material, whose yield condition obeys \(J_2\) flow theory of plasticity with an associated flow rule. They assumed that the longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical RVE is a principal direction of the macroscopic strain rate and stress tensors. They considered the cases for which the principal directions of the macroscopic strain rate tensor in the RVE cross-section plane are aligned or rotated with respect to the ellipse axis. The constitutive behavior is characterized by the homogenized yield domain in the macroscopic stress tensor space, by associated flow rules for the plastic components of the macroscopic strain rate tensor and by the evolution laws for the internal state variables. The theoretical results are compared with finite element computations of the RVE strength at plastic collapse to assess the capability of the model to describe the actual micro-mechanical response of the applied boundary conditions. The work is well-written and may find several readers working in the area of porous materials and plasticity.