Constitutive-damage modeling and computational implementation for simulation of elasto-viscoplastic-damage behavior of polymeric foams over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures

Abstract

The material behavior and damage of polymeric foams (e.g., polyurethane foam and polystyrene foam) are extremely complex under compression, depending on strain rates and temperatures. In the present study, the elasto-viscoplastic-damage behavior of polymeric foams over a wide range of strain rates and temperature is evaluated and predicted using the modified Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman-Lemaitre (GTNL) model and the modified Khan-Huang-Liang (KHL) model. A modified GTNL model is introduced to describe phenomena of decreasing void volume fraction and elastic modulus for polymeric foams under uniaxial compression. The modified KHL model is proposed to evaluate the nonlinear strain rate- and temperature-dependent material behavior of polymeric foams. The full derivation of the implicit integration algorithm of the proposed modified GTNL-KHL model is introduced, and a user-defined material (UMAT) subroutine for commercial finite element analysis code (i.e., ABAQUS) is established. Using the UMAT, the damage characteristics (e.g., void volume fraction and elastic modulus changes) and the nonlinear material behavior (e.g., linear elastic, softening/plateau and densification) of polymeric foams under uniaxial compression with various strain rates and temperatures are successfully simulated.