Determination of Lemaitre Damage Parameters for Al H11 Wire Material

The quality of wirebond interconnects is characterized by shear and pull tests. For such a simulation we need an adequate damage model, since a purely elasto-plastic model fails to give the full picture [1]. For the description of damage, the Lemaitre damage model is selected, because this model is already used in comparable blanking simulations [2]. In addition, the main damage-driving factor of this damage model is the equivalent plastic strain, which is known to be the suitable failure criteria for ductile materials. The model, introduced by Lemaitre in 1985, is for isotropic ductile damage [3]. It has been used and extended in many other works. Still, more than three decades later, modelling free evolving multiaxial damage is often a more scientific topic and has not yet been proven a sufficient engineering tool to investigate destructive tests by numerical simulation. Reducing the amount of tests has been and still is a demand to save time in the design process. Therefore, it is needed to further investigate the capabilities of such damage models on complex applications. Indeed, the damage parameters first need and will be determined in this study for the material used in the application.