Effects of internal pore pressure on closed-cell elastomeric foams

A micromechanics framework for porous elastomers with internal pore pressure (Idiart and Lopez-Pamies, 2012) is used together with an earlier homogenization estimate for elastomers containing vacuous pores (Lopez-Pamies and Ponte Castañeda, 2007a) to investigate the mechanical response and stability of closed-cell foams. Motivated by applications of technological interest, the focus is on isotropic foams made up of a random isotropic distribution of pores embedded in an isotropic matrix material, wherein the initial internal pore pressure is identical to the external pressure exerted by the environment (e.g. atmospheric pressure). It is found that the presence of internal pore pressure significantly stiffens and stabilizes the response of elastomeric foams, and hence that it must be taken into account when modeling this type of materials.     

High-velocity deformation properties of polyurethane foams

This paper presents the results of dynamic uniaxial-stress tests performed on polymer-foam material. A water-blown ester polyurethane foam designated as rigid and a castor-oil-base polyurethane foam designated as semirigid were tested in tension and compression at rates of loading from 10^?3 in./in./sec to 10³ in./in./sec at room temperature. A gas-operated medium-strain-rate machine was used for rates of loading from 10^?3 to about 10² in./in./sec. Tests at higher rates were performed on a split Hopkinson-bar device. Highspeed photographic techniques were used to study dynamic fracture.     

Stress-strain relations for elastomeric foams in uni-, bi- and tri-axial compression modes

Summary Based on suggestions given in [1], the uni-axial compressive stress-strain relations for elastomeric foams, which were developed in [2], have been extended to cover the bi- and tri-axial stress modes of compression for both open- and closed-cell elastomeric foams.The stress-strain relations for uni- and tri-axial stress compression modes were validated by comparing numerical predictions, which were based on them, to experimental results.     

Size effects in the constrained deformation of metallic foams

The constrained deformation of an aluminium alloy foam sandwiched between steel substrates has been investigated. The sandwich plates are subjected to through-thickness shear and normal loading, and it is found that the face sheets constrain the foam against plastic deformation and result in a size effect: the yield strength increases with diminishing thickness of foam layer. The strain distribution across the foam core has been measured by a visual strain mapping technique, and a boundary layer of reduced straining was observed adjacent to the face sheets. The deformation response of the aluminium foam layer was modelled by the elastic-plastic finite element analysis of regular and irregular two dimensional honeycombs, bonded to rigid face sheets; in the simulations, the rotation of the boundary nodes of the cell-wall beam elements was set to zero to simulate full constraint from the rigid face sheets. It is found that the regular honeycomb under-estimates the size effect whereas the irregular honeycomb provides a faithful representation of both the observed size effect and the observed strain profile through the foam layer. Additionally, a compressible version of the Fleck-Hutchinson strain gradient theory was used to predict the size effect; by identifying the cell edge length as the relevant microstructural length scale the strain gradient model is able to reproduce the observed strain profiles across the layer and the thickness dependence of strength.     

Controlled buckling of thin film on elastomeric substrate in large deformation

Electronic systems with large stretchability have many applications. A precisely controlled buckling strategy to increase the stretchability has been demonstrated by combining lithographically patterned surface bonding chemistry and a buckling process. The buckled geometry was assumed to have a sinusoidal form, which may result in errors to determine the strains in the film. A theoretical model is presented in this letter to study the mechanics of this type of thin film/substrate system by discarding the assumption of sinusoidal buckling geometry. It is shown that the previous model overestimates the deflection and curvature in the thin film. The results from the model agree well with finite element simulations and therefore provide design guidelines in many applications ranging from stretchable electronics to micro/nano scale surface patterning and precision metrology.     

Nonlinear deformation theory of thin shell

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Nonlinear deformation of laminated fiber-reinforced composites

S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 49–56, June, 1995.     

Micromorphic continuum modelling of the deformation and fracture behaviour of nickel foams

An anisotropic compressible plasticity model is incorporated into the framework of the micromorphic continuum theory in order to describe some size effects observed in ductile nickel foams. This continuum model reproduces the fact that the presence of a machined hole in a foam plate does not affect its mechanical response when the hole size becomes comparable to the cell size of the material. Finite element simulations are compared to strain field measurements in nickel foam plates with a machined hole for different hole sizes, in order to identify the characteristic length of the model. Based on a simple ductile damage law, the model is then shown to be able to account for the strong anisotropy of the initiation of crack propagation in central crack panels made of nickel foams under mode I loading conditions.     

Nonlinear equations of elastic deformation of plates

A method for constructing nonlinear equations of elastic deformation of plates with boundary conditions for stresses and displacements at the face surfaces in an arbitrary coordinate system is proposed. The initial three–dimensional problem of the nonlinear theory of elasticity is reduced to a one–parameter sequence of two–dimensional problems by approximating the unknown functions by truncated series in Legendre polynomials. The same unknowns are approximated by different truncated series. In each approximation, a linearized system of equations whose differential order does not depend on the boundary conditions at the face surfaces which can be formulated in terms of stresses or displacements is obtained.     

Nonlinear axisymmetric deformation of anisotropic spherical shells

A method of solving problems of nonlinear deformation of anisotropic spherical shells with consideration of critical points and postcritical behavior is outlined. The method employs the method of incremental loading in which the load increment is specified with an unknown coefficient determined as an unknown function equivalent to the other ones. The algorithm is based on the numerical discrete-orthogonalization method, which allows analyzing the deformation path for a number of shells with different anisotropy parameters     

Nonlinear deformation of thin-walled shells with local loads

S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 50–55, October, 1994.     

柔性索网结构的非线性变形

根据柔索应变与位移的非线性几何关系以及自重作用和温度影响下的平衡方程,采用欧拉描述的坐标系精确地求得了各点的位移和张力的解析解。对柔性索网结构建立的非线性代数方程组应用改进的Powell混合算法编制的高精度DNEQNF程序直接进行求解,给出了平面索网变形分析的数值算例并与相关文献进行了比较。算例结果表明与其它方法相比,本文方法对求解柔索的非线性变形问题求解简单,便于应用。     

非均匀泡沫金属材料在冲击载荷下的变形模拟

提出一种二维非线性弹塑性质量-弹簧-连杆模型,该模型将泡沫金属材料离散成许多质量块,质量块在受载方向由非线性弹塑性弹簧连接,垂直于受载方向由可延伸的弹性连杆铰接。采用该模型模拟并分析了层非均匀泡沫金属材料及局部不均匀泡沫金属材料在冲击载荷下的变形特性,说明了非均匀性对泡沫金属材料冲击变形的影响。     

Nonlinear stress and deformation analysis of thin current-carrying strip-shells

The problems of nonlinear deformation of a thin current-carrying shell under the coupled action of an unsteady electromagnetic field and a mechanical field are studied. The nonlinear magneto-elastic kinetic equations, the physical equations, the geometric equations, the electrodynamics equations, and the expressions of Lorentz force of a thin current-carrying shell under the action of a coupled field are given. Normal Cauchy form nonlinear differential equations, which include ten basic unknown functions in all, are obtained by the variable replacement method. Using the difference and quasilinearization methods, the nonlinear magneto-elastic equations are reduced to a sequence of quasilinear differential equations, which can be solved by the method of discrete orthogonalization. Numerical solutions for the stresses and deformations in the thin current-carrying strip-shell with two simply supported edges are obtained by considering a specific example. The results that the stresses and deformations in a thin current-carrying strip-shell with two simply supported edges change with variation of the electromagnetic parameters are discussed, through a special case. It is shown that the deformations of the shell can be controlled by changing the electromagnetic parameters Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 130–144, September 2007.