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Engineering and Center for Computer-AidedDesign,

The University of Iowa,Iowa City, IA 52242-1527

andDepartment of Civil and Environmental

Engineering, University of California,Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593

L. Z. Sun1

e-mail: [email protected]

H. C. WuFellow ASME

Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering,

The University of Iowa,Iowa City, IA 52242-1527

Monte Carlo Simulation ofParticle-Cracking DamageEvolution in Metal MatrixCompositesIn the modeling of microstructural damage mechanisms of composites, damage evplays an important role and has significant effects on the overall nonlinear behavcomposites. In this study, a microstructural Monte Carlo simulation method is proto predict the volume fraction evolution of damaged particles due to particle-crackinmetal matrix composites with randomly distributed spheroidal particles. The pmance function is constructed using a stress-based damage criterion. A micromecbased elastoplastic and damage model is applied to compute the local stress fieldestimate the overall nonlinear response of the composites with particle-cracking dmechanism. The factors that affect the damage evolution are investigated and theof particle shape and damage strength on damage evolution are discussed inSimulation results are compared with experiments and good agreemeobtained.fDOI: 10.1115/1.1925291g

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1 IntroductionResearch and industry have become more and more inte

in composite materials due to their high performance standand light weight. Particle-reinforced metal matrix compossPRMMCsd are an important candidate in composite matesystem because of their high strength, high modulus, high mepoint, low coefficient of thermal expansion, good resistancmoisture, good dimensional stability, and ease of productionprocessingf1g. Although the addition of hard particles into tductile matrix enhances mechanical properties, it producesmicrostructural damage mechanismsf2,3g such as particle-matrinterfacial debonding and particle cracking, which restrict thetential for widespread use. Minimizing these limitations thromicrostructural design requires a thorough understanding omicromechanisms of their intrinsic damage processes. Manyies have been conducted in this field due to its importance. Let al. combined an experimental and numerical investigatiothe particulate fracture of a spray formed SiCp/Al2618 PRMMf4g. Zhao and Weng, Sun et al., and Liu et al. adoptedequivalent-particle stiffness method through the damage modof compositesf5–10g.

In the modeling of PRMMCs with damage, microstructudamage evolution plays a key role in the prediction of the ovbehavior of PRMMCs. Derrien et al. studied the tensile behaand damage of SiCp/Al PRMMCs experimentallysSiC particle-reinforced Al matrix, with a 15% particle volume fractiond f11g.Results showed that larger particles or particles with a big aratio were the first to fail. Brechet et al. investigated the menisms of deformation and failure in SiCp/Al2618 PRMMCs pcessed by spray formingf12g. The relations between the proptions of damage particles and the strain, particle size andparticle’s aspect ratio were collected. The fractions of damparticles at various strain levels were obtained. Caceres andfiths studied the cracking of Si particles as a function of theplied strain in the Al–7%Si casting composites during plastic

1Corresponding Author. Tel.: 319-384-0830; Fax: 319-335-5660.Contributed by the Materials Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEER-

ING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received September 28, 2004. F
manuscript received March 10, 2005. Review conducted by Mohammed Cherkao
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The objective of this paper is to perform a microstructMonte Carlo simulation for predicting the volume fraction evotion of damaged particles due to particle-cracking for metal mcomposites with randomly distributed spheroidal particles.performance function is constructed using a stress-based dcriterion. A micromechanics-based elastoplastic and damodel is applied to compute the local stress field and to estthe overall elastoplastic response of the composites with pacracking damage mechanism. The factors that affect the daevolution are investigated and the effects of particle shapedamage strength on damage evolution are discussed inSimulation results are compared with experiments andagreement is obtained.

2 Weibull Statistical FunctionWeibull statistical functionf15g is a common probability func

tion used either to characterize the damage evolution in theeling of PRMMCsf5–10g, or to fit experimental dataf12,16g. Forexample, Wilkinson et al.f17g adopted Weibull probability function to represent the extent of damage in their modeling of paclustering and damage. Gonzalez and Llorcaf18g used finite element simulations to compute the fraction of broken reinfoments which is assumed following Weibull statistics in their sconsistent modeling of two-phase materials including damSegurado et al.f19g conducted a finite element analysis onmechanical properties of composites. In their simulations, Westatistics is adopted to represent the fracture probability of bparticles. In Eckschlager et al.’s unit cell modelf20g for brittlefracture of particles embedded in a ductile matrix, Weibull-tfracture probability was used to describe the damage proba

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Here,G is the Euler gamma function. For a givenm, the correspondings can be calculated using Eq.s2d. For example, whem=1, s=scri; and whenm=5, s=1.09scri.

The Weibull probability function provides a simplified, phnomenological way to simulate the damage evolution. Howdetermining these shape parameters is a big challenge becathe diversity and uncertainty of material microstructures, conrations, producing processes, and so on. Brechet et al. condexperiments of SiCp/Al356 composites, in which particle craing dominates the microstructural damagef12g. Their experimental results showed that the Weibull parameterm was in the rangof 1–6. The experiment of Si particle-reinforced Al matrix coposites conducted by Caceres and Griffiths showed thaWeibull parameterm was estimated to be in the range of 2.3–f13g. Lewis and Withers showed that the Weibull parametem=4.5 leads to good agreement with their experimental observof ZrO2/Al PRMMCs f21g. Llorca et al. obtained the best fit whm=1 for their experimental results of SiCp/Al2618 PRMMCsf4g,while m=4 was obtained in Derrien’s experimentsSiCp/Al2028 PRMMCsf11g. In analytical modeling, a preasigned value ofm was usually taken without enough experimsupport. For example, Sun et al. tookm=5 in a particle-crackinmodeling for PRMMCsf8g.

The experimental results show that Weibull parameters areally material and microstructure dependent, implying that dient sets of Weibull parameters should be taken for differentterials and microstructures. In other words, for a spePRMMC, experimental investigations into damage evolutionneeded for all possible microstructures. At the same time, exments on composite damage are difficult to conduct, and dintrinsic uncertainty, a considerable number of experimentsusually a necessity. Thus, few data are available for manyposites.

3 Monte Carlo SimulationMicrostructural damage evolution is a probabilistic process

cause: first, if we assume that particles are randomly distributthe matrix, then they have identical local stress fields. In a dministic approach once one particle is damaged due to itsstress intensity, all particles will be damaged, since theyidentical local stress fields. Second, the microstructures ofposites, such as the aspect ratio of particles and critical dastrength se.g., interfacial bonding strength or particle crackstrengthd usually have large divergence due to the uncertainttroduced by fabrication processes. Therefore, a probabilityproach should be used to predict the damage evolution ofposites. Although there are several analytical methods avaisuch as the first-order reliability methodsFORMd or the secondorder reliability methodsSORMd, Monte Carlo simulation iadopted in this study because of the intrinsic nonlinear behav
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According to fracture mechanics theory, there are a variefailure criteria depending on the material, microstructure, conration and loading conditions, such as the stress-controlled fcriterion f22g, strain-controlled criterionf23,24g, and energycontrolled criterion. To illustrate the methodology of Monte Csimulation, we assume that particle cracking may take place ithe particles once the local stress intensity reaches criticalf22g. It is straightforward to incorporate other criteria intomodel.

For a composite system, spheroidal particles are randomltributed in the matrixfFig. 1sadg. According to Eshelby’s micromechanics theory, and without considering direct interacamong particles, stresses inside particles are expressed astion of the external loadss0 sor the corresponding external str«0=fCs0dg−1:s0d as f25–27g

s = Cs0d · hI + sI − Sd · fS+ sCs1d − Cs0dd−1 ·Cs0dg−1j:«0 s3dOr, in a general form as

s = ssCs0d,Cs1d,«0,ad s4d

whereCs0d andCs1d are the elastic stiffness tensors of the maand the particles, respectively,I represents the fourth-rank identtensor,a is the aspect ratio of the spheroidal particlesssee Fig. 2d,andS refers to the Eshelby tensor that can be expressed expfor spheroidal particlesf28g. It is also noted that the double-dsymbol “:” denotes the tensor contraction between a fourth-and second-rank tensor, while the symbol “·” represents the t

Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of microstructures of PRMMCs. „a…Initial state „undamaged …; „b… particle cracking.

multiplication between two fourth-rank tensors.

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If the Mode-I fracture is considered, the normal componenthe local particle stresss in the loading directions11 controls theinitiation of particle cracking. Therefore, the cracking critercan be expressed as

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Here, scri is the critical damage strength for particle-crackWhen the normal component of particle stresses goes becritical strength, particle cracking occurs. Thus, a performfunction can be constructed as

g = scri − s11sCs0d,Cs1d,«0,ad s6dTo perform a Monte Carlo simulation, some or all of the invariables in the performance functionfEq. s6dg need to be randomized, and a set of random values are generated for eachCarlo simulation. By considering the damage criterion, ag valuegreater than 0 means that the local normal stress is less thcritical damage strength, and no cracking occurs. Ag value lessthan 0 indicates that the local normal stress inside the pagoes beyond the critical damage strength. Thus, particle crais initiated. By repeatedly running Monte Carlo simulation undloading stage with computer-generated random values for Eqs6d,the damage probability for a particle under that loading stepbe expressed as

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fs1d = s1 − Pd · f s9d

Here, f represents the total volume fraction of particles ofcomposite considered, and the relationshipfs1d+fs2d=f alwaysholds.

The proposed Monte Carlo simulation method can be usedamage modeling of composites to characterize the damagelution. A recently proposed particle-cracking modelf9g is modi-fied here to predict the overall elastoplastic behavior of com

Fig. 2 Schematic diagram of spheroidal particles aligned inthe x-direction; the aspect ratio a is defined as a1/a2

ites and damage evolution under external loading. Th

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4 Micromechanical Damage Model for Particle Crack-ing

Let us consider a composite of an isotropically elastic msphase 0d and unidirectionally aligned yet randomly distribuelastic spheroidal particlessphase 1d with distinct material propertiesfFig. 1sadg. It is assumed that the two phases are perfebonded at the interface. To model particle cracking, penny-shcrackssphase 2d are used in the perfect particles to simulate acparticle cracking damage, as shown in Fig. 1sbd. From the doubleinclusion theory, the local perturbed stresss8sxd due to a damaged particle centered atx8 can be estimated asf29,30g

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roidal particles, which can be explicitly expressedf28g. Gs2dsx−x8d is the exterior-point Eshelby’s tensor for penny-sha

cracks. It can be calculated as the special case ofGs1dsx−x8d bysetting the aspect ratio of spheroidal particles equal to zero. Mover, «*

s1d and «*s2d are the equivalent eigenstrains of sphero

inclusions and penny-shaped cracks, respectively. The explicpressions for these tensors can be found in the study of Sunf9g.

Particles are usually made of ceramic materials havingstiffness. Thus, we assume that the particles only show ebehavior for the whole loading range. At the same time, thetile matrix has an elastoplastic response and a local von MJ2-yield criterion is assumed to control local plastic yielding inmatrix. The local yield function can be written as:

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F = s1 − fs1ddÎkHlm − Ksepd ø 0 s12d

where ep represents the effective equivalent plastic strain.expression ofkHlm can be approximately obtained by neglecthe interaction among neighboring particles as

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s2d can be found if9g. It is noted that Mura’s tensorial indicial notation is followhere, in which repeated lower-case indices are summed up fto 3, while upper-case indices take on the same numbers aresponding lower-case ones, but are not summed upf27g. Equa-
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Assuming a small deformation, the total macroscopic stra«consists of the elastic component«e and the plastic component«p.The relationship between macroscopic stresss and macroscop

elastic strain«e can be written ass=C : «e, whereC representthe effective elastic stiffness of composites. The overall plflow of composites is postulated as associative. The macrosplastic strain rate for PRMMCs takes the form of

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5 Simulation Results and DiscussionFor a stress-controlled damage evolution, the factors that

the damage initiationfEq. s6dg include external loading«0 sor thecorresponding stress tensors0=Cs0d :«0d, the microstructurestheaspect ratio of the particlead, the critical damage strengthscri,and the elastic stiffness of the matrix and particles, which, isumed to be isotropic, can be represented by the Young’s mand Poisson’s ratiosE0,E1,v0,v1, respectively. The subscriptsand 1 represent the matrix and particles, respectively. A phyanalysis shows that the uncertainty of the composite dacomes primarily from the microstructures including the parsize, distribution, shape and the damage strength. In the cstudy, two main factors: the uncertainty of the aspect ratia,which is related to the manufacture of particles and the mstructure of composites, and critical damage strengthscri, which isa result of the propagation of micro cracks inside the particleconsidered. Therefore, for simplification, in the following simution we will treats0 as a deterministic variable,E0,E1,v0,v1 asrandom variablessRVsd with small uncertainties, anda, scri asrandom variables with large uncertainties.

First, a parametric analysis of these factors is conductedmaterial constants are assumed to follow Normal distributwhile the aspect ratio and critical strength are assumed to foWeibull distributionsswe will provide the experimental evidenfor this assumption later in the paperd. The coefficient of variatiosCOVd is used to indicate the uncertainty of a random variadefined as

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=3·sy=0.9 GPa.Figure 3 shows the effect of matrix property uncertainty

damage evolution. The volume fraction of damaged particlesfs2d

increases in proportion to external loading, which reflects thelution process of the damage. The uncertainties of Young’s mlus and Poisson’s ratio do not have significant effects on dainitiation in the early loading stage. This influence is only notable in the final stage of evolution whenfs2d reaches the totvolume fraction f=15%. A large uncertainty in the Youngmodulus and Poisson’s ratio will delay the cracking from reacits maximum value, which is the state in which all particles hcracked. Figure 4 shows that cracking evolution does not resa significant change in shape when the COVs of particle Youmodulus and Poisson’s ratio change from 0.1 to 0.3. Becdamage initiation and early development are found to play aimportant role in composite modeling than the final stage in dage evolution, we can conclude that matrix and particle ma

Fig. 3 The parametric analysis of the effect of the uncertaintyof matrix properties on the cracking evolution „a… the effect ofthe Young’s modulus; and „b… the effect of the Poisson’s ratio

eproperty uncertainties do not have a significant effect on damage

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evolution. As a result, these material properties can be treatdeterministic variables instead of random variables. The remof such uncertainties can save computational time, while nonificantly affecting accuracy.

A similar parametric analysis is conducted for the aspectand critical damage strength. Figure 5sad shows the effect of uncertainty of aspect ratio on cracking evolution. A small amoununcertainty in the aspect ratios0.1 in this figured causes a rapdevelopment in the early stage of its evolution; but no signifieffect is observed in the final stage. Compared with the ovariables, the uncertainty of critical damage strength has thesignificant effect on the damage evolution process during thelution process. From Fig. 5sbd, a large COV of critical damagstrength is shown to lead to a rapid development in the earlyand a slow evolution in the final stage. This is due to the factwhen overall stress is low, the average stress inside a partlower than the average critical damage strength. Thus, aCOV under low particle stress causes a higher probability of dage. On the other hand, under a high particle stress leveaverage particle stress is higher than the average critical dastrength; therefore, a large COV leads to a slow developmedamage. To accommodate these observations, the aspectaand the critical damage strengthscri will be treated as randovariables in the following simulations.

The effect of aspect ratio average values and critical dam

Fig. 4 The parametric analysis of the effect of the uncertaintyof particle properties on the cracking evolution „a… the effect ofthe Young’s modulus; and „b… the effect of the Poisson’s ratio

strength on damage evolution is shown in Fig. 6. A large aspe

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ratio of particles causes a rapid damage evolutionfFig. 6sadg,because the stress inside a particle increases in proportionparticle’s aspect ratio. With an increase in external loadingstresses in all particles go beyond critical damage strength reless of a particle’s shape. This can be a reflection of the facthere is no noticeable effect of aspect ratio on the final stagedamage evolution. Compared to the aspect ratio, the chancritical damage strength leads to a significant difference inage evolution. Figure 6sbd shows that small critical damastrength implies that the particles damage easily; thereforevolume fraction of damaged particles evolves rapidly and reamaximum value during an early loading stage.

To verify the Monte Carlo method proposed in the paper, slation results are compared with the experiment conducteLlorca et al., involving SiCp/Al2618 PRMMCsf4g. In their ex-periment, a uniaxial loading test was performed and the parwere aligned in the loading direction.Dmax andDmin represent thmaximum and minimum diameters of the particles, respectiThe characteristics of the SiC particles are measured asf4g

Dmax± SD = 10.6 ± 7.2mm

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standard deviation SDscri=SDV·smscri

/mVd. Up to now, the following inputs for a Monte Carlo simulation have been obtainedthe SiCp/Al2618 PRMMCs: the probability properties of theticles’ aspect ratio, and critical damage strength. Before we bour simulation, however, one more parameter needs to bdressed: average critical damage strengthmscri

. With the assumption that particle cracking is rooted in the microcracks, an estifor mscri

can be made from fracture mechanics theory. Becamicrocrack is usually much smaller than particles by order, aticle could be treated as an infinite domain. The Stress InteFactor KI for a Mode-I straight crack located inside an infindomain can be expressed as

KI = sspad0.5 s26d

wherea is the radius of the crack ands is the normal stress action that crack. For SiC,KI =4.8 MPa, and we can assume thataveraged radius of a microcrack inside the particle is on theof one-tenth of the particles’ radius, written asa=0.1sDmin/2d=0.27mm. Then, the external normal stresss can be calculated5.2 GPa, which will be used as an estimation ofmscri

. Figure 7shows the damage evolution obtained using Monte Carlo simtion with inputs of a and scri from the experimental measuments and the above computations. Good agreement with thperimental result is obtained. The consistency betweensimulation and experiment shows the validity of the propoMonte Carlo method as a means to predict damage evowhen direct experimental measurement is hard to conducttwo inputs used to perform a Monte Carlo simulation aredistribution characteristics of the aspect ratioa and critical damage strengthscri. The information regardinga is not difficult toobtain because it should be ready when a detailed fabricationcess is known. Critical damage strengthscri is another propertthat is only related to the particles, and it can be obtained efrom direct experimental measurement, or from an ind

Fig. 7 The comparison of the damage evolution between theMC simulation and the experimental results †4‡

method, such as the one used in this numerical example.

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6 Concluding RemarksWhile time-consuming, the Monte Carlo simulation conduc

in the paper provides a feasible way to predict damage evolin metal-matrix composites. It not only provides a physical vfication for the usages of the Weibull probability function to pnomenologically represent damage evolution in composite ming, but also further determines the Weibull parameters wexperimental results are not available for a specific compoApplying simple statistical function with explicit formulationrepresent damage evolution could save computational timehas obvious advantages in theoretical modeling. The Weprobability function introduced in Sec. 2 is a simple, acceptway to depict damage evolution in a phenomenological man

In summary, the Monte Carlo simulation is applied to prethe microstructural damage evolution of composites. As anample, the particle-cracking evolution is discussed in detaimetal matrix composites with spheroidal particles that aredomly distributed but aligned in the matrix. Simulation resshow that the particle aspect-ratio and critical damage strengthe dominant factors that have the most significant effect onage evolution. A comparison with experimental methods shthe validity of the proposed framework in predicting the ovedamage evolution of particle-reinforced metal matrix composThe Monte Carlo simulation has fewer limitations as a statismethod. It is straightforward to extend the proposed framewodeal with general loading conditions and complex damage mnisms. It is noted that several advanced methods, such as itance sampling, can be adopted to maintain similar levels ocuracy with less running time.

AcknowledgmentThis work is sponsored by the National Science Founda

under Grant Nos. CMS-0084629 and CMS-0303955.

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