Effective flow surface of porous materials with two populations of voids under internal pressure: II. Full-field simulations

• Full-field simulations based on Fast Fourier Transforms.
• Microstructures containing several hundreds of spheroidal voids.
• Incompressible matrix (von Mises) or pressure-sensitive matrix (Gurson).
• FFT algorithm for pressurized Gurson materials.
• The full-field simulations confirm the accuracy of the analytical model.

This study is devoted to the effective plastic flow surface of a bi-porous material saturated by a fluid. Highly irradiated uranium dioxide is a typical example of such a material. In part I of this study, a GTN-type approximation of the effective plastic flow surface has been derived. In this second part, the predictions of this new model are compared with full-field numerical simulations performed with a numerical method based on Fast Fourier Transforms. This method is successfully applied to voided materials with a Gurson matrix where the voids are subjected to internal pressure. Different microstructures containing a large number of spherical or ellipsoidal voids are investigated. The deviation from isotropy of their mechanical response is measured by a new criterion.