The model of Lemaitre and Chaboche (LC) (1990) is investigated in the context of a study of ductile fracture of copper by void growth and coalescence. The paper illustrates the fact that a phenomenological model such as the LC model based on a mesoscopic damage variable is not well suited for predicting fracture because it cannot account for the complexity of the void coalescence process localised at the microscale.
Pardoen, T., Delannay, F., & Doghri, I. (1998). On the use of the Lemaitre and Chaboche model for the prediction of ductile fracture by void coalescence. International Journal of Fracture, 88(4), L71-L76. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/141407 (Original work published 1998)