Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104951
Keywords
Multi-phase-field; Stress corrosion cracking; Anodic dissolution; Hydrogen embrittlement; Fracture mechanics
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52178153, 51878493]
- EPSRC [EP/V009680/11]
- UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowship programme [MR/V024124/11]
- China Scholarship Council [202006260917]
- China Scholarship Council
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We present a phase field-based electro-chemo-mechanical formulation for modelling mechanics-enhanced corrosion and hydrogen-assisted cracking in elastic-plastic solids. The model can predict the performance of materials in different environments and shows good agreement with experimental results.
We present a phase field-based electro-chemo-mechanical formulation for modelling mechanics-enhanced corrosion and hydrogen-assisted cracking in elastic-plastic solids. A multi-phase-field approach is used to present, for the first time, a general framework for stress corrosion cracking, incorporating both anodic dissolution and hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms. We numerically implement our theory using the finite element method and defining as primary fields the displacement components, the phase field corrosion order parameter, the metal ion concentration, the phase field fracture order parameter and the hydrogen concentration. Representative case studies are addressed to showcase the predictive capabilities of the model in various materials and environments, attaining a promising agreement with benchmark tests and experimental observations. We show that the generalised formulation presented can capture, as a function of the environment, the interplay between anodic dissolution-and hydrogen -driven failure mechanisms; including the transition from one to the other, their synergistic action and their individual occurrence. Such a generalised framework can bring new insight into environment-material interactions and the understanding of stress corrosion cracking, as demonstrated here by providing the first simulation results for Gruhl's seminal experiments.
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