Constitutive relation for rheological processes: Properties of theoretic creep curves and simulation of memory decay

We study the nonlinear stress-strain constitutive relation proposed earlier for describing one-dimensional isothermal rheological processes in the case of monotonous variation of the strain (in particular, viscoplasticity, creep, relaxation, plasticity, and superplasticity). This relation contains integral time operators of the strain and strain rate, which are the norms in the Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces equipped with special weight factors, one material function, and nine material parameters determined by the results of tests of the material for relaxation, creep, long-term strength, and constant-rate strain.We analytically inverse the constitutive relation and study the properties of the inverse operator. We derive the equation of creep curves corresponding to an arbitrary law of loading at the stage of passing from the zero stress to a given constant level. We study their dependence on the material parameters and the loading stage characteristics and find restrictions on the material parameters which ensure that the asymptotic behavior of the creep curves for large times is independent of the length of the loading stage and the specific law of stress variation during this stage, i.e., we find the conditions of the model memory decay in creep. Thus we have proved that the constitutive relation proposed above can adequately model both creep and the effect of the material memory decay.     

A non-linear uniaxial integral constitutive equation incorporating rate effects,creep and relaxation

A previously proposed first order non-linear differential equation for uniaxial viscoplasticity, which is non-linear in stress and strain but linear in stress and strain rates, is transformed into an equivalent integral equation. The proposed equation employs total strain only and is symmetric with respect to the origin and applies for tension and compression. The limiting behavior for large strains and large times for monotonic, creep and relaxation loading is investigated and appropriate limits are obtained. When the equation is specialized to an overstress model it is qualitatively shown to reproduce key features of viscoplastic behavior. These include: initial linear elastic or linear viscoelastic response: immediate elastic slope for a large instantaneous change in strain rate normal strain rate sensitivity and non-linear spacing of the stress-strain curves obtained at various strain rates; and primary and secondary creep and relaxation such that the creep (relaxation) curves do not cross. Isochronous creep curves are also considered. Other specializations yield wavy stress-strain curves and inverse strain rate sensitivity. For cyclic loading the model must be modified to account for history dependence in the sense of plasticity.     

Shear relaxation characteristics of rock joints under stepwise loadings

The stress relaxation characteristic of rock mass is an important aspect of rheology and has important practical significance for rock engineering. In order to investigate the relaxation characteristic of rock joints with different slope ratios and normal stresses, a series of shear stress relaxation tests were conducted on artifical rock joints poured by cement mortar. Test results show that the relaxation curves can be divided into three stages, i.e. instantaneous relaxation stage, attenuation relaxation stage, and stable relaxation stage. Furthermore, the nonlinear Maxwell relaxation equation was obtained by using the relation between the viscosity coefficient and time, and the theoretical curves based on the empirical equation agreed well with the test results. Moreover, the change law of the initial viscosity coefficient was investigated. Accordingly, a stress relaxation method, termed as relaxation stress peak method, was proposed to determine the long-term strength of rock joints.     

60Si2Mn螺旋弹簧的压缩应力松弛行为与贮存寿命预测

为评价60Si2Mn螺旋压缩弹簧的室温松弛特性,利用InstronE3000K8953型小吨位电子动静态疲劳试验机,对其在不同温度和初始应力水平条件下进行了高温压缩加速应力松弛试验,研究了环境温度、初始应力水平对松弛行为的影响.基于粘弹性体模型,揭示了应力松弛过程中弹性应变向塑性应变的转化特性与塑性应变随松弛时间的变化规律.在对应力松弛前后弹簧丝材金相和TEM微结构进行对比分析的基础上,探讨了应力松弛的微观机制.结果表明,环境温度与初始应力水平对松弛速率具有显著影响.基于应力松弛过程的热激活特性,建立了60Si2Mn螺旋压缩弹簧的贮存寿命预测方程,并对不同应力水平下弹簧的室温和高温贮存寿命进行了合理预测.     

纳米铜丝尺寸效应的分子动力学模拟

采用EAM原子势函数对不同截面尺寸纳米铜丝拉伸性能进行了零温分子动力学模拟。研究表明截面变化对纳米丝拉伸性能有明显影响。由于表明原子弛豫，纳米丝存在表面张应力以及与之相平衡的内部应力。这种本征应力的存在是纳米丝尺寸效应的根源。纳米丝截面减小，则拉伸强度提高、屈服推迟、初始拉伸模量的软化程度增加。     

Properties of a nonlinear viscoelastoplastic model of Maxwell type with two material functions

General qualitative properties of quasistatic curves for creep, relaxation, strain, and others are studied analytically. These curves are obtained on the basis of a one-dimensional constitutive relation of Maxwell type. Some constraints are proposed for the material functions to adequately describe the typical properties of experimental curves for a wide class of viscoelastoplastic materials. The applicability of the proposed model to describe, in particular, the superplastic deformation is analyzed. The effects that cannot be described in the framework of this model are found and its applicability range is revealed.     

Calculating the Linear Creep Strains of Viscoelastic Fibers under Tension

The linearity domain for the viscoelastic properties of high-molecular organic fibers is determined. The linearity criteria are coincidence of experimental compliance curves and linearity of isochronic creep curves. Statistical criteria are used to establish linearity. The influence function in the constitutive equation of linear viscoelasticity is an Abel-type power kernel. The calculated and experimental creep strains are in good agreement both at the initial stage of deformation and after long-term loading__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 97–106, May 2005.     

橡胶粘结颗粒材料粘弹性性能的试验研究与离散元模拟

制备了颗粒规则四方排列和六方排列的橡胶粘接颗粒材料试样,实验测试了所制备试样在单向拉伸载荷下的应力松弛曲线和不同应变率时的应力应变曲线。基于所测试的应力松弛曲线,采用曲线拟合方法得到了所测试材料的宏观Burger’s粘弹性本构模型参数。采用离散元模型中单元间连结模型代表颗粒间橡胶粘接剂的作用,并基于试样的宏观Burger’s模型参数与离散元模型中细观Burger’s连结模型参数间的关系,建立了橡胶粘接颗粒材料的无厚度胶结离散元分析模型。最后采用所建立的离散元模型计算了所测试试样的松弛和拉伸力学性能。离散元预测结果与实验结果的对比表明,采用无厚度胶结离散元模型能较好的计算颗粒规则排列的橡胶粘接颗粒材料松弛和拉伸力学性能,但基于应力松弛实验拟合而来参数不能准确反应橡胶粘接剂在高应变率条件下其力学性能的应变率相关性。     

基于PVDF薄膜传感器的猪肝动态压缩力学性能测试

瞬态冲击载荷作用下肝脏的力学响应是损伤生物力学的重要研究内容.本文提出了一种可用于软组织动态压缩力学特性测试的改进SHPB(分离式霍普金森压杆,Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar)方法.该方法采用PVDF(聚偏氟乙烯,Polyvinylidene Fluor)压电薄膜传感器测量实验过程中试件两端面...     

Relaxation behavior and modeling

Load relaxation tests deliver several orders of magnitude of inelastic strain rate data while elastic strains are converted into inelastic strains [see Lemaitre and Chaboche, 1994. (Mechanics of Solid Materials, Oxford University Press, Cambridge p. 264)]. Hart used this test for providing information on the inelastic deformation behavior for modeling purposes. Characteristic relaxation curves were obtained with ductile metals and alloys at room and high temperature showing a scaling relation derived from Hart's theory. Subsequent testing with servo-controlled testing machines and strain measurement on the gage length showed that an increase of prior strain rate also increased the average relaxation rate. For relaxation tests starting in the flow stress region, the relaxation curves can be independent of the stress and strain at the start of the relaxation tests. For the modeling of these newly found relaxation behaviors and other phenomena the viscoplasticity theory based on overstress (VBO) has been introduced. It is shown that VBO admits a long-term (asymptotic) solution that can be used with sufficient accuracy for the flow stress region of the stress–strain diagram. The long-term solution predicts the observed relaxation behaviors and that the relaxation curves coincide when shifted along the stress axis. This behavior is observed for the recently obtained data and is confirmed by two sets of the Hart-type data when they are plotted according to the new method.     

NEPE推进剂低高应变率下改进的黏-超弹本构模型

为研究低高应变率条件下NEPE推进剂的力学特性,通过电子万能试验机和分离式霍普金森杆装置,对NEPE推进剂进行了准静态和冲击实验,得到了不同应变率下（1.667×10?4～4 500 s?1）的应力-应变曲线。实验结果表明NEPE推进剂具有明显的非线性弹性和应变率敏感性,随着应变率的增加,材料的强度、屈服应力和弹性模量显著增加,与低应变率相比,高应变率条件下材料的应变率敏感性更高。在高速冲击下材料内部瞬间产生大量热量无法及时散发出去,使得材料内部温度升高,导致材料出现软化效应,力学性能降低。本文建立了一个非线性黏超弹本构模型,其中采用Rivlin应变能函数来描述稳态超弹响应部分,采用积分型本构模型来描述材料的动态黏弹性响应部分,考虑到松弛时间具有应变率相关性,本文采用了一个率相关松弛函数来替代传统的Prony级数形式。使用极慢速压缩实验数据对本构模型中的超弹部分进行拟合获得超弹参数,然后用准静态和动态实验数据对本构模型进行拟合得出其他参数。不同应变率下的预测曲线与实验曲线具有较好的重合度,证明了该模型可以很好地描述低高应变率下NEPE推进剂的力学特性。     

An intermediate model method for obtaining a discrete relaxation spectrum from creep data

A convenient method is described for obtaining a discrete stress relaxation spectrum from linear viscoelastic creep data by means of a three-stage process. In stage one, a discrete retardation spectrum is fitted to the creep data using a least squares procedure, subject to the constraint that the discrete spectrum must be a specified order of polynomial function of the retardation time. In stage two, the resulting generalised Voigt model is solved numerically for an imposed step in strain, to determine the stress relaxation modulus function of time. In stage three, a discrete relaxation spectrum is fitted to the calculated stress relaxation modulus function. Although three stages are involved instead of the usual two, the procedure has been found to have certain practical advantages. These advantages make it suitable for the generation of relaxation spectra needed in viscoelastic stress analyses of solids, for example by the finite element method. In order to illustrate the proposed procedure it is applied to both artificial data and experimental creep data for poly(methyl methacrylate) at 70°C and at the glass transition.     

Experimental determination of the relaxation modulus of a linear-isotropic-viscoelastic material

It is well known that the relaxation modulus of a linear-isotropic-viscoelastic material under uniaxial load is the stress history of a unit-step strain history. A unit-stepped strain function cannot be obtained with the common instron testing machine. Instead, an easily obtainable strain function is described from which the relaxation modulus is derived. Experiments were conducted to illustrate this method. Experimental-data-reduction techniques are described. Experimentally measured output stress vs. time is fitted by a ‘smooth’ polynomial using a least-square criterion. Then by differentiation of this polynomial at proper times, the relaxation function is obtained.     

Evaluation of the stress–strain curve of metallic materials by spherical indentation

A method for deducing the stress–strain uniaxial properties of metallic materials from instrumented spherical indentation is presented along with an experimental verification.An extensive finite element parametric analysis of the spherical indentation was performed in order to generate a database of load vs. depth of penetration curves for classes of materials selected in order to represent the metals commonly employed in structural applications. The stress–strain curves of the materials were represented with three parameters: the Young modulus for the elastic regime, the stress of proportionality limit and the strain-hardening coefficient for the elastic–plastic regime.The indentation curves simulated by the finite element analyses were fitted in order to obtain a continuous function which can produce accurate load vs. depth curves for any combination of the constitutive elastic–plastic parameters. On the basis of this continuous function, an optimization algorithm was then employed to deduce the material elastic–plastic parameters and the related stress–strain curve when the measured load vs. depth curve is available by an instrumented spherical indentation test.The proposed method was verified by comparing the predicted stress–strain curves with those directly measured for several metallic alloys having different mechanical properties.This result confirms the possibility to deduce the complete stress–strain curve of a metal alloy with good accuracy by a properly conducted instrumented spherical indentation test and a suitable interpretation technique of the measured quantities.     

A viscoplastic constitutive model with effect of aging

It is recognized experimentally that differences in plastic flow stress due to the change in strain rate of SUS304 stainless steel are found to decrease after cyclic preloadings, but minimal change is observed in relaxation properties. Therefore, viscosity function based on tensile stress–strain properties differs from that obtained from relaxation behavior. For such case, the existing visco-plastic constitutive concept, such as the so-called overstress model where only viscosity is taken into consideration, has a poor capability in predicting the time-dependent mechanical properties systematically. A new viscoplastic constitutive concept is presented to analyze the phenomenon. In the constitutive concept, the dynamic strain aging even at room temperature, as well as viscosity, are introduced as the dominant factors of the time-dependent plastic deformation. An experimental technique is proposed and some experimental results are presented to estimate the effects of aging and viscosity separately on the time-dependency of a SCM435 low alloyed steel under tensile loading. The proposed constitutive model with aging is verified for the systematical predictions of both plastic flow properties and relaxation behavior of the SCM435 low alloyed steel.     

双向加载条件下尼龙6-橡胶复合材料的应力松弛研究

在双向测试系统上进行了不同纵向应变与不同横向应变的双向松弛实验,研究了在双向拉伸载荷作用下单向尼龙6-橡胶复合材料的应力松弛特性．为了预测尼龙6-橡胶复合材料的应力松弛规律,提出了一个松弛型本构模型．当试件承受双向拉伸载荷作用时,将松弛型本构模型获得的理论曲线和实验数据进行了对比,二者取得了较好的一致性．     

Constitutive relations of strain, anisotropic degradation, and fracture of filled polymer materials in prevailing-tension processes with varying axis direction and relaxations

In the course of monotone uniaxial tension, filled polymer materials quasi-isotropic in the initial state experience increasing structure fractures (local adhesive separation and cohesive tearing) whose directions are mainly perpendicular to the tension axis. After complete unloading and relaxation, the fracture lips close, and weaker secondary bonds are formed between them. Taking into account the anisotropy of the above-described process of deterioration of the material structure and mechanical properties (degradation), we suggest to characterize the state of each elementary material fiber by its own values of the structure parameters (damage, fracture, and maximum strain), which can be calculated (according to the model equations of uniaxial tension in a constant direction) from the effective strain history of the fiber. It is determined as the product of the current values of two factors, namely, the strain intensity and the influence function, whose argument is the angle between the directions of the fiber under study and the maximum principal strain. The form of the influence function depends on the material and reflects the degree of anisotropy of the damage arising in it. As a model of uniaxial tension in a constant direction, we use the earlier-proposed version of the nonlinear endochronic theory of ageing viscoelastic materials, which, in addition, contains the secondary bond parameter (with its own equation). We show how the proposed constitutive relations permit one to describe the decrease in the resistance and the ultimate strain during the second axial tension compared with a similar tension from the initial state and to determine the dependence of these effects on the angle between the directions of the preliminary and repeated tensions.     

不同应变率下聚乙烯材料的压缩力学性能

为了研究聚乙烯材料在不同应变率下的压缩力学性能,通过准静态实验和动态实验获得聚乙烯材料不同应变率下的应力应变曲线,分析发现:聚乙烯的弹性模量和屈服强度随应变率增大而增大,具有明显的黏弹塑性;聚乙烯材料进入塑性阶段,其应力应变曲线在不同应变率下具有相近的变化趋势,即塑性切向模量近似相同。根据聚乙烯材料的压缩力学性能,建立了弹性区、屈服点和塑性区的分段本构模型。该模型的屈服点和塑性段与实验结果吻合较好,由于弹性段采用线弹性模型,与实验结果存在一定偏差,可近似描述材料的弹性行为。     

一种变温非线性粘弹性理论

实验表明,在高温下,某些金属材料呈非线性粘弹性：对不同的应变增量,材料有不同的瞬时弹性模量,所产生的应力沿不同的松弛曲线松弛。该了表述材料这一力学行为的变温非线性粘弹性本构方程,它可用于在高温和变温下工作的构件（如模具）的变形计算。