Brittle Damage: Johnson-Cook Plasticity Model (LAW27)
Johnson-Cook plasticity model is presented in Johnson-Cook Plasticity Model (LAW2). For
shell applications, a simple damage model can be associated to this law to take into account
the brittle failure. The crack propagation occurs in the plan of shell in the case of
mono-layer property and through the thickness if a multi-layer property is defined (Figure 1).
The elastic-plastic behavior of the material is defined by Johnson-Cook model. However, the
stress-strain curve for the material incorporates a last part related to damage phase as
shown in Figure 2. The damage parameters are:
- Tensile rupture strain in direction 1
- Maximum strain in direction 1
- dmax1
- Maximum damage in direction 1
- Maximum strain for element deletion in direction 1
The element is removed if one layer of element reaches the failure tensile strain, . The nominal and effective stresses developed in an element are related by:
Where,
- Damage factor
The strains and the stresses in each direction are given by:
The conditions for these equations are:
;
;
A linear damage model is used to compute the damage factor in function of material strain.
The stress-strain curve is then modified to take into account the damage by Equation 1. Therefore:
The softening condition is given by:
The mathematical approach described here can be applied to the modeling of rivets. Predit
law in Radioss allows achievement of this end by a simple model
where for the elastic-plastic behavior a Johnson-Cook model or a tabulated law (LAW36) may
be used.