Stress–strain behaviour of aluminium alloys at a wide range of strain rates

The stress–strain behaviour of extruded AA6xxx and AA7xxx aluminium alloys in T6 temper was studied at a wide range of strain rates. Tensile tests at low to medium strain rates were performed in a standard tensile test machine, while a split-Hopkinson tension bar was used to carry out tests at high rates of strain. Extruded aluminium alloys have anisotropic mechanical properties, and tests were therefore done in three directions with respect to the extrusion direction. It is found that the AA6xxx alloys exhibit no significant rate sensitivity in the stress–strain behaviour, while moderate rate sensitivity was found for the AA7xxx alloys. There seems to be no significant difference between the rate sensitivity in the three tensile directions. The experimental data were used to identify the parameters of a thermo-viscoplastic constitutive relation for the extruded alloys, which includes the effects of strain hardening, strain-rate hardening, thermal softening and plastic anisotropy.     

多晶纯钛在高应变率不同温度下的拉伸力学行为实验研究

利用MTS809和自行研制的旋转盘冲击拉伸试验机,对多晶纯钛进行了应变率为0.001s-1和300s-1、温度为298K至973K的拉伸试验和应变率为300 s-1不同温度下的冲击拉伸复元试验,得到了多晶纯钛的拉伸应力应变曲线和高应变率等温应力应变曲线。试验结果表明,多晶纯钛的拉伸力学行为具有应变率和温度相关性。采用修正的Johnson-Cook模型进行数值拟合,结果表明,该本构模型能较好地表征多晶纯钛在试验应变率和温度范围内的拉伸力学行为。     

不同加载状态下TA2钛合金绝热剪切破坏响应特性

一般认为绝热剪切现象在宏观上表现为材料动态本构失稳,即热软化大于应变硬化.本文采用帽型受迫剪切试样研究TA2钛合金的动态力学特性和本构失稳过程.首先对剪切区加载应力状态进行理论和数值分析,通过合理设计帽型试样,剪切区变形可近似按剪切状态处理;结合二维数字图像相关法(two-dimensional digital image correlation,DIC-2D)直接测试试样剪切区应变演化,给出帽型受迫剪切实验的等效应力-应变响应曲线.进一步,利用Hopkinson压杆对TA2钛合金开展动态压缩及帽型剪切对比试验研究,比较压缩、剪切试验得到的等效应力-应变曲线,采用"冻结"试样方法分析试样中绝热剪切局域化演化过程,探讨不同加载状态下TA2钛合金的绝热剪切破坏现象及其动态力学响应特性.实验结果表明,在塑性变形初始阶段,动态压缩及剪切加载下的等效应力-应变曲线符合较好,但随塑性损伤发展及绝热剪切带形成,两者出现分离,表明损伤及绝热剪切演化过程与应力状态相关.剪切试样实验得到的本构"软化"特性能够反映绝热剪切带起始、破坏演化过程的力学响应特性,而在动态压缩实验中,即使试样中已出现双锥形的绝热剪切带及局部裂纹分布,其表观等效应力-应变曲线并不出现软化特征,动态压缩实验无法得到关于绝热剪切起始、发展以及破坏的本构软化响应特性.     

土的应力-应变关系的一种描述模式

通常将由土的剪切试验测得的应力-应变关系曲线(q～ε1曲线)分为应变硬化型和应变软化型,文中提出了一种能同时描述应变硬化型q～ε1曲线和应变软化型q～ε1曲线的新模式,并导出了统一的切线模量表达式,进一步探讨了该应力-应变关系曲线描述模式在拟合应变硬化型曲线时的简化形式,及简化形式中参数取值方法和参数与围压的关系等方面的问题。通过与邓肯-张模型和应变软化模型的对比,结果表明该应力-应变关系曲线描述模式能更好地与试验数据吻合,且用其简化形式拟合应变硬化型曲线时,可以通过调整其中一个参数值来表达出不同的曲线形式,从而体现出土体应力-应变关系的多样性。该应力-应变关系描述模式为发展更一般的非线性弹性模型提供了一定的理论基础。     

套管式冲击拉伸实验装置的研制

介绍了几种常见的冲击拉伸实验装置,并做了简要的评述.提出了一种改进后的套管式冲击拉伸实验装置,该装置直接产生拉伸脉冲,消除了反射式冲击拉伸实验装置中两种干扰信号的影响,得到了远比反射式冲击拉伸实验更为理想的透射波形.运用改进后的套管式冲击拉伸试验装置对几种板材材料进行了动态拉伸实验,得到了这几种板材在600/s,1200/s,1800/s应变率下的应力应变曲线,与静态应力应变曲线相比较,反映了这几种板材具有明显的应变率效应.根据实验结果中动态与静态应力应变曲线的一致性,分析了这种套管式冲击拉伸实验装置的优越性与有效性,它能更好地反映材料的动态力学性能.     

Constitutive modelling of the high strain rate behaviour of interstitial-free steel

A physically based modelling and experimental investigation of the work hardening behaviour of IF steel covering a wide range of strain rates including complex strain path and/or strain rate changes are presented. In order to obtain isothermal stress–strain curves at high strain rates, a procedure has been proposed with the aid of finite element analysis. The result reveals that the apparent excess of the flow stress after a jump in strain rate, which is frequently observed in bcc metals, is in fact due to the thermal softening at large strains, and that the flow stress after a jump in strain rate tends asymptotically to the values corresponding to the curve at the new strain rate. The strain rate affects not only the short-range stress but also the long-range stress via the strain-rate dependant evolution of dislocation structures. The proposed model is based on the dislocation model of intragranular hardening proposed by Teodosiu and Hu [Teodosiu, C., Hu, Z., 1995. Evolution of the intragranular microstructure at moderate and large strains: modelling and computational significance. In: Shen, S., Dawson, P. R., (Eds.), Proceedings of Numiform'95 on Simulation of Materials Processing: Theory, Methods and Applications. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 173–182] and extended to strain rate sensitive one with applying the results of the thermal activation analysis. A satisfactory agreement has been achieved between model predictions and experimental results.     

铝锂合金材料的极限应变率软化特性研究

通过系列准静态与动态力学实验得到了铝锂合金材料的基本力学参数。证实了该种材料具有独特的应变率软化特性 ,并揭示了材料应变率软化效应的极限性特征 ,提出了极限应变率软化材料的概念 ,从而对突加载荷下粘塑性材料中也会出现双波结构的现象给出了合理的解释。为便于实际应用 ,还对实验得到的材料应力 应变曲线进行了拟合 ,提出了一种便于实际应用的材料本构关系的具体形式 ,即双幂次应变硬化 极限幂次应变率软化本构关系。     

不锈钢材料的动态力学性能及本构模型

利用带有温度调控系统的SHPB实验装置测定了0Cr17Mn5Ni4Mo3Al不锈钢在3种应变率(300、1 000、2 700 s-1)、4种环境温度（25、300、500和700 ℃）下的应力应变关系;在液压伺服材料试验机(MTS)上进行了3种温度下的准静态（0.0005 s-1）压缩实验。实验结果表明:该不锈钢有明显的应变率强化效应和温度软化效应,并且随着环境温度的升高,应变率强化效应减弱。对Johnson-Cook模型进行了修正,考虑了冲击过程中绝热温升引起的软化效应。修正后的Johnson-Cook模型与实验结果吻合较好。     

Ductility of interstitial-free steel under high strain rate tension: Experiments and macroscopic modeling with a physically-based consideration

In this paper, an experimental investigation and a constitutive modeling of the mechanical response of an interstitial-free (IF) steel over a wide range of strain rates (from 0.001/s to 750/s) are presented. Tensile tests at relatively high strain rates, exceeding 100/s, are performed at an initial room temperature, using the so-called one bar technique developed on the basis of the Hopkinson bar method. At a high strain rate, a distinct upper yield limit is observed, and the subsequent flow stress increases remarkably. Furthermore, the ductility is reduced significantly in comparison to the case of low strain rate tension. In order to express such a complicated material response of IF steel, we develop a new constitutive model that takes into account effects of a change in the mobile dislocation density and thermal softening. The model can be easily applicable to large-scale engineering computations, because it is macroscopically formulated. We try to reproduce the tensile response including a diffuse neck formation at high strain rates, using the proposed constitutive model and finite element method. The results indicate that a change in the mobile dislocation density, together with thermal softening, has substantial effects on apparent work hardening behavior at high strain rates, although the change in the mobile dislocation density is transcribed at macroscopic scale in the model. Finally, we discuss characteristics of true stress–true strain curves at various strain rates, and their correlation with the plastic instability behavior.     

一种改进的金属材料的高温动态拉伸实验技术

在旋转盘冲击拉伸实验装置上,利用金属材料自身的导电特性,对试样施加电流.使其在电流作用下发热,实现自加热,形成了试件快速加热而波导杆温升很小的金属材料的动态高温高应变率拉伸实验技术.应用该实验技术获取了45 #钢从室温到1000℃温度范围和应变率650s-1时的材料动态拉伸应力—应变曲线.实验结果表明,45 #钢具有明显的热软化效应,其流动应力和屈服应力随温度的升高而降低.     

Adiabatic shear localization in the dynamic punch test,part II: numerical simulations

The behavior of 1018 steel, 6061-T6 aluminum, and titanium 6%Al–4%V alloy during the dynamic punch test is investigated using the finite element method. Specifically, the possibility and effects of adiabatic shear localization and its role in burr formation are examined, and comparisons to experimental tests in the first part of this two part study are made. A maximum stress criterion involving strain and strain rate hardening and thermal softening is used to determine the occurrence of shear localization in the simulations. It is observed that adiabatic shear localization occurs in the simulations of the titanium alloy. This material exhibits narrow regions of concentrated shear strain during the deformation, and the shear localization criterion is satisfied in these regions. The strain is more widely distributed in the other two metals, and the same criterion is not satisfied. In the calculations of the shear localization criterion it is seen that strain rate hardening has a significant effect when compared to strain hardening and thermal softening. Also, contact between specimen and punch is lost around the center of the punch during operation. This loss of contact is important as it leads to higher stress concentrations at the punch corner and dishing of the blank.     

加载速率对40Cr钢Ⅱ型动态断裂特性的影响

采用新型Ⅱ型动态断裂测试技术,对高强钢40Cr在高加载速率下的Ⅱ型动态断裂特性进行了测试研究。基于新设计的Ⅱ型动态断裂试样和分离式霍普金森压杆（split Hopkinson pressure bar, SHPB）技术,通过实验-数值方法确定了裂尖在加载过程中的应力强度因子曲线。采用应变片法确定了试样的起裂时间,最终得到40Cr的Ⅱ型动态断裂韧性值,并对其加载速率相关性和材料的失效机理进行了研究。结果表明,在1.08～5.53 TPa·m1/2/s的加载速率范围内,40Cr的Ⅱ型动态断裂韧性基本表现为与加载速率成正相关的变化趋势。通过对试样断口形貌的分析,确定了材料的失效模式及机理,发现随着加载速率的增加,存在拉伸型失效向绝热剪切型失效模式转变的现象。     

Material Characterization at High Strain by Adapted Tensile Tests

The strength of materials at high strain levels has been determined using the so-called Continuous-Bending-under-Tension (CBT) test. This is a modified tensile test where the specimen is subjected to repetitive bending at the same time. This test enables to create high levels of uniform strain. A wide variety of materials has been tested this way. The strength of the material after CBT testing has been measured in different ways: by secondary tensile tests, by interrupted CBT tests, and directly from the fracture in the CBT test. All methods yield similar results: the strength is largely unaffected by the cyclic pre-deformation and mainly depends on the overall increase in length. Only for multi-phase materials the strength shows a minor influence of CBT test conditions. The hardening follows the extrapolated hardening observed in a conventional tensile test, except for brass. This test method can potentially be used for measuring hardening curves at high strain levels.     

变温下橡胶材料力学性能的实验分析

利用Zwick020材料试验机研究了天然橡胶材料在不同温度条件下单向拉伸的大变形力学行为。得到了不同温度和不同加载速率条件下材料的应力-应变关系曲线和材料的破坏条件,由此分析了高温和低温的温度变化条件及加载速率对材料力学性能的影响,得出天然橡胶材料在大变形条件下的温度和加载速率敏感特性。同时利用实验结果拟合出材料的应变能函数,并应用热超弹性模型对材料进行了理论分析。结果表明,理论分析结果与实验结果仅在一定温度范围内吻合得较好,因为材料软化或硬化,在很高或很低的温度情况下二者有一定差别。     

Plastic work induced heating evaluation under dynamic conditions: Critical assessment

In many engineering problems involving adiabatic (dynamic) conditions the temperature rise induced by plastic deformation is usually evaluated using the inelastic heat fraction. The latter is still frequently considered as a crudely determined constant value. On the other hand, experimental investigations have shown that the inelastic heat fraction depends on strain, strain rate and temperature. Employing a phenomenological double-potential, elastic/thermoviscoplastic constitutive framework, the intrinsic dissipation form and heat equation considered correspond to salient features of inelastic behaviour of a large class of solids. For some typical strain hardening/softening and thermal softening combinations encountered, the evolution of inelastic heat fraction is being studied and quantified and finally shown to be highly strain and temperature dependent.     

Analysis of the localization of damage and the complete stress-strain relation for mesoscopic heterogeneous brittle rock subjected to compressive loads

A micromechanics-based model is established. The model takes the interaction among sliding cracks into account, and it is able to quantify the effect of various parameters on the localization condition of damage and deformation for brittle rock subjected to compressive loads. The closed-form explicit expression for the complete stress-strain relation of rock containing microcracks subjected to compressive loads was obtained. It is showed that the complete stress-strain relation includes linear elasticity, nonlinear hardening, rapid stress drop and strain softening. The behavior of rapid stress drop and strain softening is due to localization of deformation and damage. Theoretical predictions have shown to be consistent with the exoerimental results.     

Effects of crystal content on the mechanical behaviour of polyethylene under finite strains: Experiments and constitutive modelling

The mechanical stress-strain behaviour of polyethylene (PE) materials under finite strains is studied both experimentally and theoretically. In order to gain insight into the structure and physical properties of investigated PE materials, a series of thermal (DSC and DMTA) and microstructural (small-angle X-ray scattering and AFM) characterizations have been undertaken. The influence of crystallinity on the various features of the tensile stress-strain response is considered over a large strain range, implying thermoplastic-like to elastomer-like mechanical behaviour. A physically-based hyperelastic-viscoplastic approach was adopted to develop a pertinent model for describing the mechanical behaviour of PE materials under finite strains. The semicrystalline polymer is being treated as a heterogeneous medium, and the model is based on a two-phase representation of the microstructure. The effective contribution of the crystalline and amorphous phases to the overall intermolecular resistance to deformation is treated in a composite framework, and coupled to a molecular network resistance to stretching and chain orientation capturing the overall strain hardening response. In order to extract the individual constitutive response of crystalline and amorphous phases, a proper identification scheme based on a deterministic approach was elaborated using the tensile test data of PE materials under different strain rates. Comparisons between the constitutive model and experiments show fair agreement over a wide range of crystallinities (from 15% to 72%) and strain rates. The constitutive model is found to successfully capture the important features of the observed monotonic stress-strain response: the thermoplastic-like behaviour for high crystallinity includes a stiff initial response, a yield-like event followed by a gradual increase of strain hardening at very large strains; for the elastomer-like behaviour observed in the low crystallinity material, the strain hardening response is largely predominant. Strain recovery upon unloading increases with decreasing crystallinity: this is quantitatively well reproduced for high crystallinity materials, whereas predictions significantly deviate from experiments at low crystallinity. Model refinements are finally proposed in order to improve the ability of the constitutive equations to predict the nonlinear unloading response whatever the crystal content.     

The effect of strain softening in the matrix material during void growth

A Finite element analysis has been employed to investigate the growth of an initially spherical void embedded in a cylinder of elastic-plastic material. The boundary displacement of this cylindrical cell is regulated by the value of a parameter α which controls the radial shrinkage of the cell as it elongates. A large strain analysis was used and results for both strain hardening and strain softening (after an appropriate amount of hardening has taken place) have been obtained. The effects of different mean tensile stresses, equivalent strains and initial void volume fractions have also been included. The numerical work shows relationships between the mechanical and geometrical variables that may favour ductile fracture by void coalescence or by shear decohesion.     

高温合金材料循环相关热机械疲劳寿命预测

在变温非线性运动强化规律所描述的高温合金材料热机械寿命应力－应变循环特性的基础上，讨论了应变控制的循环相关热机械疲劳寿命预测技术，所建模型采用了由应变以密度表示的损伤参数，并且引入了温度损伤系数，考虑了温度变化范围以及温度循环和应变循环相位关系对疲劳寿命的影响，在确定模型的一些参数，采用等温力学试验和疲劳试验的数据，为了把等温疲劳研究成果推广到变温疲劳分析领域，开辟了新的途径。     

聚碳酸酯的高应变率拉伸实验

为了解应变率对聚碳酸酯拉伸力学行为的影响,在旋转盘式间接杆杆型冲击拉伸试验机和MTS809材料试验机上,对聚碳酸酯棒材进行了高应变率和准静态加载下的单向拉伸试验,应变率分别为380 s-1、800 s-1、1750 s-1和0.001 s-1、0.05 s-1,得到了聚碳酸酯的拉伸应力应变曲线.试验结果表明:聚碳酸酯的拉伸力学性能具有明显的应变率相关性,其屈服应力和失稳应变随应变率的增加而增大.依据试验结果,采用朱王唐粘弹性本构模型来描述聚碳酸酯的非线性粘弹性拉伸力学行为.模型结果显示,在本文实施的应变率范围内,朱王唐模型可以较好地表征聚碳酸酯的拉伸应力应变响应.