Experimental determination of strain-induced anisotropy during nonproportional straining of an A1/Mg alloy at room temperature

A servohydraulic, computer controlled MTSn axial-torsion testing machine with a bi-axial clip-on extensometer is used to test thin-walled tubes of an A1/Mg alloy under strain control. A plastic offset strain of 10⁻⁴ determines the yield surfaces. Straining and yield surface probing is governed by a computer program which also controls digital data acquisition. Yield surfaces in stress and in strain space as well as the axial and shear stress-strain diagrams can be reconstructed from the digitally recorded data. The specimens were subjected to a strain path in the form of a regular 16-sided polygon which was followed on some specimens by a square path. The total inelastic strain path length can exceed 15% while the equivalent strain excursion is less than 2%. It is shown that yield surfaces measured on specimens withclose initial stress-strain diagrams are very consistent and that yield surface probing has an insignificant effect on subsequent yield surfaces. Yield surfaces are shown to translate, changein shape and size and to exhibit a cross effect. A post processor which includes a least square smoothing routine calculates the area and the centroid of each yield surface. The size increase is initially rapid but the rate of increase decreases as a saturation is approached. After strining for less than 1% in a fixed direction a characteristic yield surface shape is established. Yield surfaces obtained at the same point in strain space with identical prestrain direction of at least 1% but with increased amounts of accumulated plastic strain have the same shape but show an increase in size. The yield surfaces differ in shape and size when the same strain point is reached from different directions. The centroid of the yield surface in stress space moves almost in a circular path for a polygonal strain path. All stress space yield surfaces contain the origin but this is not the case for the surfaces in strain space.     

Further application of endochronic constitutive equation to loading with non-proportional axial-torsional strain-path

A combined theoretical-experimental investigation of the stress response to complex, non-proportional strain-paths in the axial-torsional strain space is reported in this paper. Type 304 stainless steel tubular specimens have been tested at a constant strain rate of 5 × 10^?4 per second. Two strain-paths have been investigated. The first path involves a cyclic axial straining and unstraining following a shear prestraining, and the second strain-path is cyclic in shear after a prestraining in tension.The endochronic theory with a plastic strain defined intrinsic time has been shown to be capable of predicting the stress response to the two strain-paths considered.     

A plasticity model for pressure-dependent anisotropic cellular solids

The initial and subsequent yield surfaces for an anisotropic and pressure-dependent 2D stochastic cellular material, which represents solid foams, are investigated under biaxial loading using finite element analysis. Scalar measures of stress and strain, namely characteristic stress and characteristic strain, are used to describe the constitutive response of cellular material along various stress paths. The coupling between loading path and strain hardening is then investigated in characteristic stress–strain domain. The nature of the flow rule that best describes the plastic flow of cellular solid is also investigated. An incremental plasticity framework is proposed to describe the pressure-dependent plastic flow of 2D stochastic cellular solids. The proposed plasticity framework adopts the anisotropic and pressure-dependent yield function recently introduced by Alkhader and Vural [Alkhader M., Vural M., 2009a. An energy-based anisotropic yield criterion for cellular solids and validation by biaxial FE simulations. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 57(5), 871–890]. It has been shown that the proposed yield function can be simply calibrated using elastic constants and flow stresses under uniaixal loading. Comparison of stress fields predicted by continuum plasticity model to the ones obtained from FE analysis shows good agreement for the range of loading paths and strains investigated.     

ON NONPROPORTIONAL CYCLIC PLASTIC BEHAVIOR OF STEEL 40

An experimental investigation was carried out on the flow characteristicand hardening of steel 40 subjected to complex combined axial-torsional cyclicstraining. For a specific cyclic strain path, the steel has mainly cyclic softeningbehavior when the strain amplitude is small. While with an increase of the effectivestrain amplitude, the softening becomes small, but there is the cyclic softening eventhough the steel is subjected to the cyclic loading by a square strain path. However, thesteel has cyclic additional hardening by a nonproportional path, compared with theproportional cycling. Generally, the additional hardening is small and its historicaleffect is not obvious at small strain amplitude. The additional hardening is remarkableby a cross-triangular strain path of large strain amplitude. The memory of the historyof nonproportional cyclic loading, the direction of plastic flow and the plastic modulusof the steel were also studied.     

砂土的应力路径本构模型

将微元应力路径线性逼近,转变成与其充分接近且易于计算应变的等平均应力微元和等应力比微元,计算任意加荷应力路径所产生的塑性应变,建立了双屈服面的砂土应力路径本构模型．模型体现了岩土塑性理论分量屈服和非关联流动法则的要求,在p,q平面内根据双线性的屈服线确定了加卸载准则．结合广义非线性强度理论采用变换应力三维化方法简单、合理地使模型实现三维化．通过试验数据的验证表明,砂土应力路径本构模型可以合理地描述各种应力路径下砂土的变形和强度特性。     

A parameter for measuring the magnitude of a change of strain path: Validation and comparison with experiments on low carbon steel

Various tension-tension and tension-shear strain sequential experiments have been performed on low carbon steel sheet along different material axes. Owing to the rapid plastic instability that occurs during the reloading in uniaxial tension of prestrained samples, the results are focussed on the evolution of the macroscopic reloading yield stress (back extrapolated stress). For a given prestrain amount, the reloading stress is a function of the magnitude of the strain path change. A parameter is proposed, which allows the comparison of different sequential loading tests: the scalar product of the unit tensors corresponding to the prestrain and to the subsequent strain modes, respectively. For low carbon steel, a single curve is obtained when the reloading stress, normalized by the stress along the monotonic strain path is plotted against this parameter whatever the combination of loading sequences and the material direction of the prestrain.     

Yielding of 6061-T6 aluminum tubings under dynamic biaxial loadings

A test vehicle described herein has been developed for applying biaxial, tension-internal pressure, loading to thinwalled tubular specimens over a range of loading rates. The dynamic responses, as well as static initial and subsequent yield surfaces of a number of specimens made of 6061-T6 aluminum alloy, are presented. The stress path obtained in a dynamic biaxial test was reporduced statically. The corresponding stress-strain curves have been compared and found significantlky different. It is found that the dynamic initial yielding occurs at a higher state of biaxial stress depending on the loading rate than that of static yielding.     

Cyclic stress-strain behaviour of alloy AA6060 T4, part II: Biaxial experiments and modelling

Laboratory tests have been conducted to investigate the inelastic behaviour of aluminium alloy AA6060 T4 subjected to non-proportional cyclic loading. The results of four tests with variable strain path shapes and strain amplitudes are reported in this paper. The tests were carried out by applying combined axial force and torque to thin-walled tubular specimens, using effective strain amplitudes in the range 0.4–0.8%. Major emphasis has been put on the two important material properties: plastic anisotropy and influence of strain range and strain path shapes on cyclic hardening. A constitutive model for cyclic plasticity is used to predict the stress response of the alloy for the non-proportional strain paths applied in the experiments. The model adopts a quadratic yield function and multi-component non-linear isotropic and kinematic hardening rules to describe plastic anisotropy, the shape of the hysteresis loops and the evolution of cyclic hardening. Good agreement is obtained between the physical and correlated stress response of the alloy.     

Moment-curvature relations for a pseudoelastic beam

Pseudoelastic bodies have very simple stress-strain diagrams for uniaxial tensile and compressive loading. In particular, yield and recovery occur at fixed stresses. And yet, the moment-curvature diagrams for bending and unbending of a beam are fairly complex, because the stress and strain fields are non-uniform. The paper shows stress profiles within the beam for pure bending and arrives at explicit equations for loading and unloading curves.     

On the implementation of a multi-surface kinematic hardening plasticity and its applications

This paper is concerned with an application of the multi-surface plasticity in solid mechanics and geotechnical problems. The model is of a von-Mises type with associated flow rule, originally proposed by Montans. The Mroz translation rule is implemented to the movements of the yield surfaces and the fully implicit scheme with radial mapping method is applied in numerical computations. Algorithmic consistent tangent modulus with numerical integration algorithm of constitutive equations is extracted. The model is developed in the class of kinematic hardening models, so the ‘Masing’ rule is preserved. The model is able to consider the plastic strain accumulation in constant axial stress state, such as ratcheting. The implementation is validated by means of a simple deformation path of combined extension and compression test, a pure shear test with pseudo-random loading, a test which demonstrates the capabilities of the model in simulation of cyclic loading and ratcheting, a cyclic shear test in saturated undrained sand and finally, the analysis of a plate with holes, which presents the shear band using the multi-surface plasticity model.     

Inelastic behavior of an AS4/PEEK composite under combined transverse compression and shear. Part I: experiments

The nonlinear behavior in shear and transverse compression of unidirectional AS4/PEEK and their interaction are investigated experimentally. The composite is rate dependent even at room temperature and its rate exponent is similar to that of neat PEEK. The material is tested under pure shear, pure compression and under biaxial loading histories. The biaxial tests are performed in a custom facility on thin strips of the material. The facility allows freedom to choose the loading path in the biaxial stress and strain spaces of interest. Tests are performed for three biaxial loading paths. In the first, the specimen is sheared then compressed while the shear stress is held constant; in the second, the specimen is compressed then sheared while the compressive stress is held constant; and in the third, the specimen is loaded simultaneously by proportional amounts of compression and shear. It was found that the induced deformation is influenced significantly by the loading history followed. Also, initial loading in shear or compression has only a modest effect on subsequent loading of the other type. An unorthodox yielding behavior for the composite results from this lack of interaction. Finally, the stresses at failure are found to trace an elliptical path in the shear–transverse compression plane, but the failure stress state is not significantly affected by the loading path followed.     

预加载路径对低碳钢强化规律的影响

本文报导了２０＾＃低碳钢薄壁圆管试件在比例加载时Ｐ－ｐ复杂应力状态的实验结果。主要研究了：（１）初始屈服面；（２）经简单拉伸预加载和比例预加载情况下的强化规律；（３）折线预加载情况下的强化规律；（４）预施塑性变形量相等路径不同时的强化规律。     

316L不锈钢随动强化模型改进研究

本文对316L不锈钢进行了单轴与多轴非比例路径下的应力控制棘轮试验,考察了应力幅值、平均应力和加载历程对棘轮特性的影响。同时进行了应变控制循环试验以研究材料的应力松弛特性。试验结果表明轴向棘轮效应在对称剪切荷载下效果明显,同时棘轮应变随应力幅值和平均应力的增加而增加。研究了Chen-Jiao随动强化模型与Jiang-Sehitoglu随动强化模型采用的单轴与多轴参数对背应力分量增量方向的影响,将Chen-Jiao模型中的多轴系数替换为界面饱和率,并在此基础上引入新的参数对塑性模量系数进行修正,计算结果表明修正后的模型能提升应力控制下多轴棘轮的预测精度,并能很好的预测应力松弛现象,表明了新模型的正确性与有效性。     

Material effects during monotonic-cyclic loading

The effects commonly related with deformation caused by proportional and non-proportional loading types were identified experimentally. In the case of non-proportional cyclic loading along circular strain path the second order effects such as: phase shift between stress and strain signals was observed. An analysis of experimental data from tests under non-proportional cyclic loading along square strain path exhibited a significant reduction of stress independently on direction of deformation.The paper also presents experimental results concerning evaluation of an influence of cyclic loading on stress variations during monotonic deformation carried out on the pure copper and X10CrMoVNb9-1 steel. All strain controlled tests were performed at room temperature using thin-walled tubular specimens. The experimental programme contained selected combinations of monotonic and cyclic loadings, i.e. the torsion-reverse-torsion cycles were superimposed on the monotonic tension. It is shown that such cycles associated with monotonic tension caused essential variations of tensile stress. For both materials, a significant decrease of the axial stress was visible. The effects observed during monotonic and cyclic loading combinations were theoretically described using the Mróz and Maciejewski model.     

A multi-dimensional composite model for plastic continua under polyaxial loading condition

By replacing a medium with reinforcing components oriented and distributed uniformly in a multi-dimensional space, a constitutive model is constructed. The components are extended/compressed compatibly with the strain and the resultant of load exerted on them to balance the stress. Their load-elongation relation can be determined from a conventional material test. Each component undergoes different elongation history depending on its own orientation during deformation, so that the model can simulate elasto-plastic behavior of materials under polyaxial loading conditions. The incremental constitutive matrix has been derived for application in numerical analysis and a yield criterion is also introduced. A few subsequent yield surfaces have been predicted and compared with experiments.     

Lower bound for LCF lifetime and its application to safe design of elastic viscoplastic structures

The theory of shakedown is applied to obtain an upper estimation of LCF lifetime of structures. A model of elastic viscoplastic material similar to the Perzyna one with isotropic strain hardening and isotropic damage is adopted. Assumptions: viscoplastic strain rate is proportional to the access of the yield function over zero; the rate of damage evolution is equal to a function of hardening and damage parameters with the coefficient of fluidity, as a factor of proportionality; damage process is coupled with the viscoplastic deformation process; the hardening parameter is equal to accumulated viscoplastic deformation. The yield surfaces form a family of self-similar surfaces with the diameter as the parameter. The shakedown condition of the Melan type is formulated relatively to the initial yield surface. Features of the stress path lead to an equation with min–max problem of the mathematical programming in the left side, which determines a safe value of the virtual residual stress. The equation provides an opportunity to compute the maximal value of the strain hardening parameter possible under the prescribed loading program. This value allows to obtain an upper estimate to safe work time of the structure, which results in a sufficient condition of the structure integrity during the prescribed time period. An example of the developed theory application to resolve various problems arising from designing of structures is considered.     

应变空间中的弹塑性数值计算方法

本文论述了应变空间表述的岩土弹塑性理论及其数值计算方法的有关问题,并按此编制了计算程序.所给算例表明这一方法是简便可行的,为解决岩土工程问题提出了一种更好的途径.     

An experimental study on subsequent yield surface after finite shear prestraining

An equimodulus surface is introduced and the subsequent yield surface after large finite shear prestraining is experimentally investogated. Fully annealed, thin-walled copper tubular specimens were subjected to large torsional loading and partial unloading; strain gages were carefully mounted on the specimen after the application of pure shear loading. Specimens were then subjected to various combined tension-torsion loadings. Influences of he von Mises and Tresca equivalent offset strains on the subsequent yield surfaces are studied. On examining the experimental results reported in this article, it was found that the smaller the offset strains, the more distorted are the subsequent yield surfaces. At the torsional preloading point, a rounded corner was developed, whereas in the region opposite to the preloading point, the subsequent yield surface was flattened. When large von Mises offset strains were used, the corresponding subsequent yield surfaces passed through the von Mises loading surface. But this was not the case when Tresca offset strains were used. The subsequent yield surface determined by the back extrapolation method was almost completely outside the von Mises loading surface. On the other hand, the subsequent yield surface determined by the back extrapolation method was close to the Tresca loading surface. It is also found that the equimodulus surface is distorted and cannot simply be described by the combined kinematic and isotropic hardening rule.     

Generalized stress/strain rate relations for creep of thin shells; a comparison of “exact” and approximate relations

A set of approximate generalized stress/strain rate relations which has been used for the stationary creep analysis of thin shells is compared with the corresponding ‘exact’ relations. The comparison is made by computing the functions from which the relations are derived and plotting the corresponding surfaces. Results are included for a limiting condition in which the stress/strain rate relations become those for a rigid-plastic material obeying the von Mises yield condition and associated flow rule. Although the comparison is made only for conditions valid in a cylindrical shell under rotationally symmetric loading, it indicates the errors which are likely to occur when the approximate relations are used in stationary creep analysis.