Prediction of Ductile Fracture for Al6016-T4 with a Ductile Fracture Criterion: Experiment and Simulation

The key point in this paper is the prediction of the onset of ductile fracture with a newly proposed ductile fracture criterion in various stress state ranging from shear to uniaxial tension. A series of tension tests with different material orientations are carried out up to fracture. The anisotropic Drucker yield function with an isotropic hardening law is identified to describe the elastic–plastic behaviors of Al6016-T4 aluminum alloy. The uncoupled ductile fracture criterion is calibrated and then utilized to construct the fracture locus of Al6016-T4, which is implemented into the ABAQUS/Explicit to validate the prediction of ductile fracture criterion by comparing experimental results to numerical ones. The validation demonstrates that the ductile fracture criterion can accurately predict the onset of ductile fracture for Al6016-T4 in medium stress triaxiality ranging from 0.1 to 0.44 where most ductile fracture occurs in sheet metal forming.