New approaches to improve the RPV materials data base

Continuum Theory of Ductile Rupture by Void Nucleation and Growth: Part I—Yield Criteria and Flow Rules for Porous Ductile Media

A.L. Gurson · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology · 1977 · 6.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17

On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗

J. R. Rice, Dennis M. Tracey · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1969 · 4.8K citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +12

Analysis of the cup-cone fracture in a round tensile bar

Viggo Tvergaard, A. Needleman · Acta Metallurgica · 1984 · 3.4K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +14

A local criterion for cleavage fracture of a nuclear pressure vessel steel

F. M. Beremin, A. Pineau, F. Mudry et al. · Metallurgical Transactions A · 1983 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering +16

An analysis of ductile rupture in notched bars

A. Needleman, Viggo Tvergaard · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 1984 · 810 citations

Natural Sciences, Civil Engineering, Computational Structural Analysis +13