The initiation of a hot tear in the coherent mushy zone of metallic alloys is associated commonly with the opening up of the solid skeleton caused by thermally induced deformation. A previously established constitutive model for the continuum modeling of coherent mushy zones has been further developed in the current study to address the opening up, or decohesion, of the solid skeleton associated with volumetric tensile deformation. Whereas the original model accounts for the cohesion of the solid skeleton caused by the deformation by means of an internal variable, an additional internal variable accommodating the decohesion has been introduced in the new model. The modeled decohesion is interpreted as the initiation of a hot tear.
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