Research Article
Modeling Crack Propagation in Polycrystalline Microstructure Using Variational Multiscale Method
Figure 4
The configuration of multiscale model. The model is divided into two scales. Microscale contains explicit representation of crystals with assigned orientations in a region where crack is expected to propagate. The macroscale contains a statistical representation of the polycrystal (ODF) at each of its integration points.