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摘要
Heterogeneities in a green film made from a powder compact is considered to be one of the major reasons for the generation of sintering cracks. Stresses are generated in a film due to the constraint of the substrate. Instabilities in the sintering process can occur at sites of these heterogeneities resulting in the generation of multiple cracks, which can propagate through the thickness of the film. The classical finite element method is fundamentally ill-suited to studying this multiple-cracking problem. This paper presents a simple and robust numerical method for the computer modelling of sintering and multiple cracking. The method is based on the so-called material point method, which was initially developed for large deformation problems in plasticity. A parallel computing algorithm is implemented and a simple scheme for modelling the initiation and propagation of multiple cracks is proposed. The numerical scheme is then validated by simulating a simple geometric problem for which an analytical solution can be obtained. Finally, the robust performance of the numerical method is demonstrated by modelling the sintering response of a film which contains different types of heterogeneities.
- 出版日期2012-4
