TY - JOUR A1 - Bruno, Giovanni A1 - Kachanov, M. A1 - Sevostianov, I. A1 - Shyam, A. T1 - Micromechanical modeling of non-linear stress-strain behavior of polycrystalline microcracked materials under tension N2 - The stress-strain behavior of microcracked polycrystalline materials (such as ceramics or rocks) underconditions of tensile, displacement-controlled, loading is discussed. Micromechanical explanation andmodeling of the basic features, such as non-linearity and hysteresis in stress-strain curves, is developed,with stable microcrack propagation and “roughness” of intergranular cracks playing critical roles. Ex-periments involving complex loading histories were done on large- and medium grain sizeb-eucryptiteceramic. The model is shown to reproduce the basic features of the observed stress-strain curves. KW - Nonlinearity KW - Stress-strain relations KW - Hysteresis KW - Polycrystals PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.10.024 SN - 1359-6454 SN - 1873-2453 VL - 164 SP - 50 EP - 59 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-46515 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -