Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 943-980Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-021-02054-w
Keywords
Bayesian inference; MCMC techniques; Phase-field fracture; (An)isotropic ductile materials
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD [EXC 2122, 390833453]
- Priority Program DFG-SPP 2020
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The prediction of crack initiation and propagation in ductile failure processes is challenging, requiring accurate estimation of material parameters for a precise determination of material response. A Bayesian inversion framework is developed to provide accurate knowledge regarding effective mechanical parameters, relying on the phase-field approach to fracture. The framework is algorithmically described in detail and substantiated with numerical examples, using common Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimating material parameters.
The prediction of crack initiation and propagation in ductile failure processes are challenging tasks for the design and fabrication of metallic materials and structures on a large scale. Numerical aspects of ductile failure dictate a sub-optimal calibration of plasticity- and fracture-related parameters for a large number of material properties. These parameters enter the system of partial differential equations as a forward model. Thus, an accurate estimation of the material parameters enables the precise determination of the material response in different stages, particularly for the post-yielding regime, where crack initiation and propagation take place. In this work, we develop a Bayesian inversion framework for ductile fracture to provide accurate knowledge regarding the effective mechanical parameters. To this end, synthetic and experimental observations are used to estimate the posterior density of the unknowns. To model the ductile failure behavior of solid materials, we rely on the phase-field approach to fracture, for which we present a unified formulation that allows recovering different models on a variational basis. In the variational framework, incremental minimization principles for a class of gradient-type dissipative materials are used to derive the governing equations. The overall formulation is revisited and extended to the case of anisotropic ductile fracture. Three different models are subsequently recovered by certain choices of parameters and constitutive functions, which are later assessed through Bayesian inversion techniques. A step-wise Bayesian inversion method is proposed to determine the posterior density of the material unknowns for a ductile phase-field fracture process. To estimate the posterior density function of ductile material parameters, three common Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques are employed: (i) the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, (ii) delayed-rejection adaptive Metropolis, and (iii) ensemble Kalman filter combined with MCMC. To examine the computational efficiency of the MCMC methods, we employ the (R) over cap -convergence tool. The resulting framework is algorithmically described in detail and substantiated with numerical examples.
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