Otherwise speaking, \(g_{p}\) is the plastic degradation function. The
plastic degradation function is resembling the elastic degradation
function and provides a mechanism for driving crack growth by the
development of plastic strains. As a result, the case with \(g_{p}\) =
1, there is no plastic softening.
5. Numerical examples
The performance of the applied model is tested with the aid of several
examples of the potential to capture representative aspects of fracture
processes in ductile materials inside the proposed method, starting with
the simplest one-the homogeneous plate subjected to pure tensile
loading.
Table . Material Properties