Abstract: This paper revisits Gurson's (Gurson, A., 1975, “Plastic Flow and Fracture Behavior of Ductile Materials Incorporating Void Nucleation, Growth, and Interaction,â€‌ Ph.D. thesis, Brown University, Rhode Island; Gurson, ...

Abstract: An effective yield function is derived for a porous ductile solid near a state of failure by microvoid coalescence. Homogenization theory combined with limit analysis are used to that end. A cylindrical cell is taken to ...