Abstract
In the present work, a cellular automata finite element model (CAFE) was developed to model the ductile-brittle transition of a Grade A ship plate steel. Therefore, ductile and brittle cellular automata (CA) arrays of cells were created in the model to integrate material data at microstructural level, along with the ductile and brittle fracture processes. Microstructural data was analysed with Weibull distributions and incorporated in CAFE model using random number generators, along with ductile and brittle fracture parameters. Ductile fracture was modelled with Rousselier damage model; hence damage model parameters were calibrated with experimental data. Brittle fracture was modelled with Beremin model, and four different cleavage particles, found in a Grade A ship plate steel, were incorporated in CAFE model in order to model a competition of particles nucleating microcracks of critical size in the damage regions of Impact Charpy tests and four-point double-notch bend tests performed at low temperature. The mechanical properties the plate steel was measured in the transition region and incorporated in CAFE model, along with ductile-brittle transition rules. The present CAFE model was able to simulate distributions of microcracks in the notch region of four-point double-notch bend models (in the transition region), which correlated with experimental data. CAFE model was also able to simulate microvoids in the notch region of Charpy specimens along with the load-displacement Charpy curve for room test temperature, with very good agreement with experimental data. Once CAFE model was validated at micro and structural level, it was applied to model the typical scatter of impact Charpy energy values in the transition region of Grade A ship plate steel with good agreement with the measured ductile-brittle transition curved of the plate steel. Keywords: cellular automata, finite element modelling, ductile-brittle transition, damage modelling.
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