A Modified Damage-Plasticity Coupled Area-Weighted Nonlocal Model for Simulating Ductile Fracture and Softening Behaviors of Materials

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="862543.fig.006a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2014/862543/figures/862543.fig.006a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Number of elements = 900</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="862543.fig.006b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2014/862543/figures/862543.fig.006b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Number of elements = 1200</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="862543.fig.006c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2014/862543/figures/862543.fig.006c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Number of elements = 1800</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Tension strain distribution contour with different mesh density.</table>

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Figure 6: A Modified Damage-Plasticity Coupled Area-Weighted Nonlocal Model for Simulating Ductile Fracture and Softening Behaviors of Materials 