Delamination of an elastic film from an elastic–plastic substrate during adhesive contact loading and unloading

Adhesive contact between a rigid sphere and an elastic film on an elastic–perfectly plastic substrate was examined in the context of finite element simulation results. Surface adhesion was modeled by nonlinear springs obeying a force-displacement relationship governed by the Lennard–Jones potential. A bilinear cohesive zone law with prescribed cohesive strength and work of adhesion was used to simulate crack initiation and growth at the film/substrate interface. It is shown that the unloading response consists of five sequential stages: elastic recovery, interface damage (crack) initiation, damage evolution (delamination), film elastic bending, and abrupt surface separation (jump-out), with plastic deformation in the substrate occurring only during damage initiation. Substrate plasticity produces partial closure of the cohesive zone upon full unloading (jump-out), residual tensile stresses at the front of the crack tip, and irreversible downward bending of the elastic film. Finite element simulations illustrate the effects of minimum surface separation (i.e., maximum compressive surface force), work of adhesion and cohesive strength of the film/substrate interface, substrate yield strength, and initial crack size on the evolution of the surface force, residual deflection of the elastic film, film-substrate separation (debonding), crack-tip opening displacement, and contact instabilities (jump-in and jump-out) during a full load–unload cycle. The results of this study provide insight into the interdependence of contact instabilities and interfacial damage (cracking) encountered in layered media during adhesive contact loading and unloading.     

Mesh sensitivity effects on fatigue crack growth by crack-tip blunting and re-sharpening

Crack-tip blunting under tensile loads and re-sharpening of the crack-tip during unloading is one of the basic mechanisms for fatigue crack growth in ductile metals. Based on an elastic–perfectly plastic material model, crack growth computations have been continued up to 700 full cycles by using remeshing at several stages of the plastic deformation, with studies of the effect of overloads or compressive underloads. Recent published analyses for the first two cycles have shown folding of the crack surface in compression, leading to something that looks like striations. The influence of mesh refinement is used to study the possibility of this type of behaviour within the present method. Even with much refined meshes no indication of crack surface folding is found here.     

Damage characterization of SAE 1020 and 1045 steel under torsion and compression

A damage model is applied to characterize the ductile deformation of SAE 1020 and 1045 steel. Damage is evaluated for thin-walled cylindrical specimens in torsion and solid bar specimens in compression where stress triaxiality enhances crack initiation. Analyzed are the variations of the damage parameter with the average compressive axial strain at the different locations of the solid bar. Initially, stress triaxiality being largest at the center appeared to dominate damage. With increasing strain, pronounced damage tends to occur in the mid-plane at locations closer to the free surface. Change in the aspect ratio of the cylindrical bar specimens also had an effect on the stress triaxiality and hence the damage parameter. Less damage is prediated for slender bars at the same strain level although the difference is small for height to diameter ratio up to 1.86.     

Anisotropic response of high-purity α-titanium: Experimental characterization and constitutive modeling

This paper presents a comprehensive experimental and theoretical investigation of the deformation behavior of high-purity, polycrystalline α-titanium under quasi-static conditions at room temperature. The initial material in this study was a cross-rolled plate with a strong basal texture. To quantify the plastic anisotropy and the tension–compression asymmetry of this material, monotonic tensile and compressive tests were conducted, on samples cut along different directions of the plate. A new anisotropic elastic/plastic model was developed to describe the quasi-static macroscopic response of the aggregate. Key in its formulation is the use of an anisotropic yield criterion that captures strength-differential effects and an anisotropic hardening rule that accounts for texture evolution associated to twinning. A very good agreement between FE simulations using the model developed and uniaxial data was obtained.     

复杂加载下混凝土的弹塑性本构模型

混凝土材料在不同应力路径下或复杂加载条件下会表现出差异性显著的应力应变关系,在小幅循环加载条件下,其应力应变关系会表现出类似于弹性变形的滞回曲线.在不同应力水平下,混凝土的应力应变关系以及破坏特性都具有静水压力相关特点,即随着静水压力增大,各向异性强度特性弱化.此外,混凝土受压及受拉破坏机理不同,因而对应于混凝土硬化损伤亦有不同,即可分为受压硬化损伤,受拉硬化损伤及两者的混合硬化损伤类型.基于Hsieh模型,对该模型进行了三点改进.（1）针对小幅循环加载下混凝土无塑性变形的试验规律,而模型中在应力水平较低的循环加载条件下始终存在塑性变形的预测问题,采用在边界面模型框架下,设置了应力空间的弹性域,初始屈服面与后续临界状态屈服面几何相似的假定.（2）基于广义非线性强度准则将原模型采用变换应力方法将其推广为三维弹塑性本构模型,采用变换后模型可合理的考虑不同应力路径对于子午面以及偏平面上静水压力效应形成的影响,并避免了边界面应力点奇异问题.（3）分别对拉压两种加载损伤模式建议了相应的硬化参数表达式,可分别用于描述上述加载中产生的应变软化及强度退化行为.基于多种加载路径模拟表明:所建立的三维弹塑性本构模型可合理地用于描述混凝土的一般应力应变关系特性.      

考虑应力三轴度影响的30CrMnSiNi2A钢韧性断裂研究

30CrMnSiNi2A钢是一种在军工领域应用广泛的低合金高强度钢。针对结构完整性的评估问题,采用试验和数值计算结合的方法研究了30CrMnSiNi2A钢的韧性断裂特性。对光滑圆棒试件在不同温度下进行准静态和动态拉伸试验,并通过有限元迭代方法标定了材料的Johnson-Cook动态本构模型参数,分析了温度和应变率对30CrMnSiNi2A钢断裂行为的影响。开展了缺口圆棒拉伸、缺口平板剪切和圆柱压缩试验,计算了各试件对应的平均应力三轴度和断裂应变,给出了应力三轴度在?1/3～1.5区间内的断裂应变变化曲线,分别确定了Johnson-Cook和Bao-Wierzbicki失效模型参数。研究表明,30CrMnSiNi2A钢的断裂应变与应力状态密切相关,且在不同的应力三轴度区间内曲线单调性差异较大,Bao-Wierzbicki失效模型较好地描述了这种钢在不同应力状态下的断裂特性。     

Effect of cracked weld joint and yield strength dissimilarity on crack tip stress triaxiality

This paper is concerned with an elasto-plastic analysis of a weld joint containing a central crack in the weld material (WM) whose yield strength may differ from that of the base material (BM). Stress triaxiality along the path of expected crack extension is found to be influenced not only by the applied tensile load level and crack length relative to the specimen width but also by the degree of BM/WM mismatch in the yield strength.Three different cases are analyzed by application of a two-dimensional finite element analysis. They are referred to as under-match, even-match and over-match which correspond, respectively, to the WM yield strength being less than, equal to and greater than that of the BM. In general, the stress triaxiality along the crack front tends to increase for an under-matched weld and decrease for an over-matched weld using the even-matched case as a reference. As the crack length is reduced for a given specimen width, the stress triaxiality decreases accordingly and the BM/WM material dissimilarity becomes more obvious. Displayed graphically are also the crack front plastic zone size that increases with the applied tensile load level and suffers a discontinuity across the weld line.     

Empirical assessment of ductile fracture initiation in steel bars with notch and three-point bend specimen with edge crack

Proposed is a parameter defined to characterize the onset of macrocrack initiation in notched steel bars and cracked three-point bend specimens. It accounts for stress triaxiality and damage by plasticity reflected via the effective plastic strain. Results are obtained for notched round bars made of 20#, A3, DE36I and DE36II steel by assuming that the stress triaxiality increases with increasing effective plastic strain; they are compared with the results by letting the stress triaxiality to be constant. Use are made of experimental data on the necking of tensile bars. The parameter corresponding to the onset of ductile fracture were found to be nearly constant. Since the local effective plastic stress can be related to the crack tip opening (COD) distance, the same procedure can be applied to evaluate fracture initiation in three-point bend specimens with an edge crack. It is found that the COD in AS1204-350 and AS1405-180 structural steels decreased with increasing stress triaxiality.     

Model of Plastic Deformation at the Front of a Circular Crack Under Nonaxisymmetric Loading

The constrained plastic deformation at the front of a circular mode I crack under nonaxisymmetric loading in the crack plane is studied. It is shown that the normal stresses in the plastic zone depend on the polar angle and external stresses. The constraint is maximum at those points on the crack front along tangents to which the maximum external tensile stresses act     

The deformation of the front of a 3D interface crack propagating quasistatically in a medium with random fracture properties

One studies the evolution in time of the deformation of the front of a semi-infinite 3D interface crack propagating quasistatically in an infinite heterogeneous elastic body. The fracture properties are assumed to be lower on the interface than in the materials so that crack propagation is channelled along the interface, and to vary randomly within the crack plane. The work is based on earlier formulae which provide the first-order change of the stress intensity factors along the front of a semi-infinite interface crack arising from some small but otherwise arbitrary in-plane perturbation of this front. The main object of study is the long-time behavior of various statistical measures of the deformation of the crack front. Special attention is paid to the influences of the mismatch of elastic properties, the type of propagation law (fatigue or brittle fracture) and the stable or unstable character of 2D crack propagation (depending on the loading) upon the development of this deformation.     

Unusual plastic deformation and damage features in titanium: Experimental tests and constitutive modeling

In this paper, we present an experimental study on plastic deformation and damage of polycrystalline pure HCP Ti, as well as modeling of the observed behavior. Mechanical characterization data were conducted, which indicate that the material is orthotropic and displays tension-compression asymmetry. The ex-situ and in-situ X-ray tomography measurements conducted reveal that damage distribution and evolution in this HCP Ti material is markedly different than in a typical FCC material such as copper. Stewart and Cazacu (2011) anisotropic elastic/plastic damage model is used to describe the behavior. All the parameters involved in this model have a clear physical significance, being related to plastic properties, and are determined from very few simple mechanical tests. It is shown that this model predicts correctly the anisotropy in plastic deformation, and its strong influence on damage distribution and damage accumulation. Specifically, for a smooth axisymmetric specimen subject to uniaxial tension, damage initiates at the center of the specimen, and is diffuse; the level of damage close to failure being very low. On the other hand, for a notched specimen subject to the same loading the model predicts that damage initiates at the outer surface of the specimen, and further grows from the outer surface to the center of the specimen, which corroborates with the in-situ tomography data.     

不同应变率下蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃的力学响应

蓝宝石（A1₂O₃）是透明陶瓷玻璃,它相较传统陶瓷（A1₂O₃）有优良的透光性,而且保留了陶瓷优良的力学性能。利用电子拉伸机和分离式霍普金森杆设备对试样进行准静态应变率为(10?4、10?3、10?2 s?1)和4种动态应变率(850、1 100、1 300、1 450 s?1)下的单轴压缩力学行为,用高速摄像机记录了蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃试样在准静态和动态压缩下的破坏过程。实验结果表明:从加载过程中的应力应变曲线是由加载段和失效段组成的,该材料是典型的脆性材料,并且有明显的应变率效应,随着应变率的提高,蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃的抗压强度也会提高;准静态和动态压缩下蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃都是在宏观裂纹扩展作用下失效破坏。通过分析不同应变率下蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃的破坏过程,分析得到该材料的失效是在加载的过程中,在蓝宝石透明陶瓷玻璃承载能力最低的区域出现裂纹源,然后裂纹成形并沿着加载方向扩展,然后裂纹之间相互交错,最终达到饱和状态破坏失效;在高应变率下,极短的时间内产生多处裂纹源,需要更大的能量去使裂纹成形、扩展,宏观上就表现为应变率效应。     

Effect of rising elastic modulus in surface layer on stress intensity and gradient

The relaxation element method is applied to obtain the stress field around a crack under normal tension. A surface layer is assumed to surround the crack periphery taken to be in the shape of a narrow ellipse. The elastic modulus within this layer increases from zero to the bulk value of the medium outside. Calculations show that the stresses are finite at the crack tip; they reach a maximum in the layer and then decay to the well known solution of Griffith outside the layer. The influence of plastic deformation on the crack front stresses can also be simulated by the surface layer model. Stress concentration at the crack front is found to be lower when plastic deformation takes place. Sharp decay of stress next to the crack is accompanied by increase of local stress gradients. Severity of the local stress fluctuation depends on the width of the crack surface layer.     

VISCOPLASTIC SOLUTION TO FIELD AT STEADILY PROPAGATING CRACK TIP IN LINEAR- HARDENING MATERIALS

An elastic-viscoplastic constitutive model was adopted to analyze asymptotically the tip-field of moving crack in linear-hardening materials under plane strain condition. Under the assumption that the artificial viscosity coefficient was in inverse proportion to power law of the rate of effective plastic strain, it is obtained that stress and strain both possess power law singularity and the singularity exponent is uniquely determined by the power law exponent of the rate of effective plastic strain. Variations of zoning structure according to each material parameter were discussed by means of numerical computation for the tip-field of mode Ⅱ dynamic propagating crack, which show that the structure of crack tip field is dominated by hardening coefficient rather than viscosity coefficient. The secondary plastic zone can be ignored for weak hardening materials while the secondary plastic zone and the secondary elastic zone both have important influence on crack tip field for strong hardening materials. The dynamic solution approaches to the corresponding quasi-static solution when the crack moving speed goes to zero, and further approaches to the HR (Hui-Riedel) solution when the hardening coefficient is equal to zero.     

石英玻璃杆Taylor撞击实验的数值模拟

采用离散元方法模拟石英玻璃杆Taylor撞击问题,再现了其破坏过程:在撞击端,杆以压缩失效波的形式破坏;在自由端,出现了密集的拉伸层裂破坏. 分析表明:层裂是失效波阵面应力快速下降引起的追赶卸载波,与弹性压缩前驱波在自由端反射引起的迎面卸载波相互作用的结果;随着撞击速度的增大,撞击端失效波造成的压缩破坏区域损伤程度增大,反射端层裂破坏损伤区域减小. 进一步对失效波阵面的结构变化及其波速问题进行了研究,发现失效区域随着扩张变成一段裂纹逐渐由密到稀的区段,将此区段分为高损伤区和低损伤区,研究发现由稀疏微裂纹组成的低损伤区的前端面传播速度和弹性前驱波速基本相同,为固定值;而高损伤区前端面的裂纹密度随着传播距离的增加变稀,直至过渡为低损伤区,其传播具有显著的速度衰减、端面模糊直至停止的过程. 高损伤前端面的平均速度随着撞击速度的增大而增大,并逐渐趋近于弹性波速. 最后与已有实验做了对比,发现实验中高速摄影观察到的玻璃中"失效波"阵面实际上是高损伤前端面,而稀疏的低损伤微裂纹很难捕捉.      

双轴压缩载荷下裂纹动态传播的实验研究

本文研究了双轴压缩载荷下裂纹的起裂和非共面传播问题，用动态光弹性方法成功地记录下裂纹的动态扩展过程。获得了双轴压缩载荷下扩展裂纹的传播速度，临界开裂载荷以及开裂角第一系重要断裂参数。研究表明，在双轴压缩载荷下不闭合裂纹前缘应力场是一个混合型的奇异场，裂纹的扩展过程为稳态过程并且表现出显著的阶段性特点。     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON DYNAMIC PROPAGATION OF CRACKS UNDER BIAXIAL COMPRESSION

This paper deals with the initiation and non-coplaner propagation ofcracks under biaxial compression.The running process of the propagating cracks issuccessfully recorded with the method of dynamic photoclasticity.A series of importantfracture parameters such as cracks' propagating velocity,critical opening loading andinitial angle of cracks' growth under hiaxial compression is calculated.Results showthat the stress field in front of the non-closed crack tip under biaxial compression is amixed-mode singular field,the dynamic propagation of the new tensile cracks is juststable and shows distinct stages,but the unstable crack appears under high loads andresults in the rupture of the matrix.     

Vapor pressure and residual stress effects on failure of an adhesive film

Surface-mount plastic encapsulated microcircuits (PEM) are susceptible to temperature- and moisture-induced failures during reflow soldering. Adhesive failures in PEMs are studied using a model problem of a ductile adhesive joining two elastic substrates. The polymeric adhesive contains a centerline crack. The adhesive film is stressed by remote loading and residual stresses. Voids in the adhesive are pressurized by rapidly expanding water vapor. The computational study addresses three competing failure mechanisms: (i) extended contiguous damage zone emanating from the crack; (ii) multiple damage zones forming at distances of several film thicknesses ahead of the crack; and (iii) extensive damage developing along film–substrate interfaces. The second failure mechanism is found in low porosity adhesives, while the first is dominant in high porosity adhesives. The first is also the likely failure mode when voids in the adhesive are subjected to high vapor pressure. The third damage mechanism is operative in low porosity adhesives subjected to high residual stress. In general, both residual stress and vapor pressure exert pronounced effects on failure modes. Vapor pressure, in particular, accelerates voiding activity and growth of the damage zone offering insights into the catastrophic nature of popcorn cracking.