Ductile Damage Material Parameter Identification: Numerical Investigation

Abstract

International audienceCalibration of damage parameters is an important issue for the use of damage laws, and particularly for industrial manufacturing processes. This paper deals with an adapted procedure to identify Lemaitre damage parameters using tensile tests. An adapted objective function is built, and Efficient Global Optimisation (EGO) algorithm is chosen to solve the minimisation problem. This procedure is investigated by constructing a landscape of the objective function. This global sensitivity analysis enables to compare different solutions. The sensitivity analysis exhibits some pathological identification issues: multiple extrema and weak gradient. This sensitivity analysis shows some limitations of identification using load-displacement curves: In particularly the non-uniqueness of the set of parameters. The identification procedure is finally validated for an HSS S355MC steel material used in industrial joining application