Finite element method implementation of a nonlocal viscoplastic model with consideration of temperature dependence

Abstract

This article presents development of a damage-coupled viscoplastic constitutive model with temperature consideration. The model is subjected to an explicit nonlocal treatment within the characteristic length that is not limited to one local element as conventional ones. Temperature dependence of material behavior is incorporated into the model to account for the material property degradation at elevated temperature. A test program to determine the correlation between material parameters and temperature is also presented. The nonlocal damage-coupled viscoplastic material model is implemented in a commercial finite element program ABAQUS through its user-defined material subroutine UMAT using a semi-implicit time integration scheme. The model is applied to predict the behavior of 63Sn37Pb soldered structure. The mesh sensitivity of the model is discussed, as well as the efficiency of deduced consistent tangent modulus.