Constitutive equations for elastoplastic composites with imperfect bonding

Closed-form constitutive relations are given for the prediction of the overall response of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites having constituents that are elastoplastic materials. In these equations the damage mode of imperfect bonding between the fiber and matrix phases is incorporated. The interface decohesion is represented by two parameters that completely determine the degree of adhession at the interfaces in thenormal and tangential directions. Perfect contact, perfectly lubricated contact, and complete debonding are obtained as special cases. In the elastic region, the average stress-strain relations are given in terms of the effective elastic moduli of the damaged composite, all of which are given by closed-form expressions. The derived constitutive equations can be readily implemented for the analysis of metal matrix composites.     

Consistently linearized constitutive equations of micromechanical models for fibre composites with evolving damage

The numerical analysis of engineering structures is usually based upon the assumptions of a homogeneous as well as a continuous medium. These simplifications are maintained also for structures made of fibre reinforced composite materials which possess by definition a heterogeneous finescale architecture. Furthermore in the course of the loading of such structures void nucleations might arise out of the debonding of the embedded fibres or the growth of microcracks inside the matrix phase. Hence, the assumption of a continuous and homogeneous medium is not valid from a microscopical point of view. Nevertheless, it is numerically advantageous to keep up these simplifying assumptions on the macrolevel. Therefore, the knowledge of the so called macroscopic or effective material behaviour is needed. The overall properties can be described in terms of volume averaged quantities that smear the heterogeneities of the microscopic structure and the influence of its defects. Since the evolution of damage within composite materials means a rather complex process, a purely phenomenological approach is hardly feasible. Hence, the average properties are to be obtained from a micromechanical analysis of the discontinuous and damaged finescale structure. The efficiently reformulated version of the micromechanically based Generalized Method of Cells (GMC) provides the macroscopic tangential constitutive tensor in closed-form. The numerical efficiency of the approach allows for the use of the GMC as the constitutive model for nonlinear finite element analyses. Two-scale simulations of macroscale composite structures considering process depending damage evolution on the microscale of heterogeneous media becomes feasible.     

A multi-scale constitutive model for the sintering of an air-plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating, and its response under hot isostatic pressing

A micromechanical model is developed for the sintering of an air-plasma-sprayed, thermal barrier coating, and is used to make predictions of microstructure evolution under free sintering and under hot isostatic pressing. It is assumed that the splats of the coating are separated by penny-shaped cracks; the faces of these cracks progressively sinter together at contacting asperities, initially by the mechanism of plastic yield and subsequently by interfacial diffusion. Diffusion is driven by the reduction in interfacial energy at the developing contacts of the cracks and also by the local contact stress at asperities. The contact stress arises from the remote applied stress and from mechanical wedging of the rough crack surfaces. Sintering of the cracks leads to an elevation in both the macroscopic Young's modulus and thermal conductivity of the coating, and thereby leads to a degradation in thermal performance and durability. An assessment is made of the relative roles of surface energy, applied stress and crack face roughness upon the sintering response and upon the evolution of the pertinent mechanical and physical properties. The evolution in microstructure is predicted for free sintering and for hot isostatic pressing in order to provide guidance for experimental validation of the micromechanical model.     

Constitutive equations for no-tension materials

Summary For a material which is incapable of sustaining tensile stresses (no-tension material, NTM), the local stability postulate is utilized in order to derive the appropriate equations which relate, within general 3D situations, cracking strain states and stress states to each other. Several alternative forms of these equations are discussed, either in terms of stress and strain components, or in terms of stress and strain invariants. The results obtained improve known results regarding the NTM's.

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Sommario Per un materiale non resistente a trazione in stati di tensione e deformazione triassiali viene utilizzato il postulate di stabilità locale per ottenere appropriate equazioni che mettono in relazione gli stati di deformazione fragile (o fessurativa) con gli stati di tensione. Sono discusse alcune forme alternative di queste equazioni espresse in termini di componenti di tensione e di deformazione, oppure in termini di invarianti delle tensioni e delle deformazioni. I risultati ottenuti comprovano e arricchiscono noti risultati riguardanti i materiali che non resistono a trazione.

     

Constitutive equations for hot-working of metals

Elevated temperature deformation processing - “hot-working,” is an important step during the manufacturing of most metal products. Central to any successful analysis of a hot-working process is the use of appropriate rate and temperature-dependent constitutive equations for large, interrupted inelastic deformations, which can faithfully account for strain-hardening, the restoration processes of recovery and recrystallization and strain rate and temperature history effects. In this paper we develop a set of phenomenological, internal variable type constitutive equations describing the elevated temperature deformation of metals. We use a scalar and a symmetric, traceless, second-order tensor as internal variables which, in an average sense, represent an isotropic and an anisotropic resistance to plastic flow offered by the internal state of the material. In this theory, we consider small elastic stretches but large plastic deformations (within the limits of texturing) of isotropic materials. Special cases (within the constitutive framework developed here) which should be suitable for analyzing hot-working processes are indicated.     

Constitutive equations for an electroactive polymer

Ionic electroactive polymers can be used as sensors or actuators. For this purpose, a thin film of polyelectrolyte is saturated with a solvent and sandwiched between two platinum electrodes. The solvent causes a complete dissociation of the polymer and the release of small cations. The application of an electric field across the thickness results in the bending of the strip and vice versa. The material is modeled by a two-phase continuous medium. The solid phase, constituted by the polymer backbone inlaid with anions, is depicted as a deformable porous media. The liquid phase is composed of the free cations and the solvent (usually water). We used a coarse grain model. The conservation laws of this system have been established in a previous work. The entropy balance law and the thermodynamic relations are first written for each phase and then for the complete material using a statistical average technique and the material derivative concept. One deduces the entropy production. Identifying generalized forces and fluxes provides the constitutive equations of the whole system: the stress–strain relations which satisfy a Kelvin–Voigt model, generalized Fourier’s and Darcy’s laws and the Nernst–Planck equation.     

Constitutive equations for micropolar hyper-elastic materials

In this paper, the concept of hyper-elasticity in the micropolar continuum theory is investigated. The restrictions on the fourth-order elasticity tensors are investigated. Using the representation theorems, a general form of constitutive equations for micropolar hyper-elastic isotropic materials is presented. As some special cases, generalizations of the neo-Hookean and Mooney-Rivlin type materials to the micropolar continuum theory are presented. The generalized constitutive equations reduce to those of the microplar linear elasticity theory when the deformations are infinitesimal. Also, Updated Lagrangian finite element formulations for the micropolar hyper-elastic materials are presented. Considering two planar examples, it is shown that an increase in the micropolar parameter results in the reduction of the deformation of the bodies. Also, it is shown that for a specimen with very small dimensions, e.g. in the micron level, the micropolar effects are more sensible. Furthermore, it is shown that the influence of the micropolar parameters is dependent not only on the size of the body, but also to its geometry and loading conditions. For the problems in which the deformation is very close to a homogeneous state, the micropolar effects are negligible.     

Constitutive equations for multiphase mixtures of fluids

Constitutive equations for a multiphase mixture of fluids are presented. The mixture is assumed to consist of a single non-uniform temperature and no change is allowed. The theory is based on the conservation and balance equations of multiphase mixtures proposed by Dobran, and the constitutive assumption allows for the effects of temperature gradient, density gradients, velocity gradients, velocities and accelerations. A linearized form of the constitutive equations is presented for an arbitrary number of phases, and restrictions on the constitutive assumption are investigated by the second law of thermodynamics. The theory yielded a significant number of results and they are compared with previous investigations.     

Constitutive equations for thermomechanical deformations of glassy polymers

Poly-Carbonate (PC) and Poly-Methyl-Methacrylate (PMMA) are lightweight and mechanically tough transparent glassy polymers. Their mechanical behavior at low to moderate strain rates has been well characterized; however, that at high strain rates needs additional work. We propose two modifications to existing pressure-dependent viscoplastic constitutive equations that enable one to simulate better mechanical deformations of PC and PMMA at high strain rates. First, the elastic moduli are taken to depend upon the current temperature and the current effective strain rate. Second, two internal variables are introduced to better characterize the strain softening of the material at high strain rates. A technique to find values of newly introduced material parameters is described. We compute the local temperature rise due to energy dissipated during plastic deformations. The true axial stress vs. the true axial strain curves in uniaxial compression from numerical simulations of the test configurations at high strain rates using the proposed constitutive equations are found to agree well with the experimental results available in the literature.     

Constitutive equations for fiber suspensions in viscoelastic media

The kinetic theory of elastic dumbells with a friction factor that depends on the fiber orientation is used to obtain constitutive equations for fiber suspensions in a polymer matrix. We followed the approach of Fan (X.J. Fan, in P. Moldenaers and R. Keunings (Eds.), Theoretical and Applied Rheology, Proceedings XIth International Congress on Rheology, Brussels, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992, pp. 850–852), and derived equations for polymer solutions based on the FENE-P, FENE-CR, and Giesekus models. Start-up and steady-state free shear flows are studied to explore the effects of the fiber-polymer coupling as well as the fiber volume fraction. Predictions based on different types of closure approximations for the fourth-order fiber orientation tensor are also discussed.     

Constitutive equations for a nondilute dispersed fiber suspension

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 71–76, November–December, 1989.     

异种不锈钢激光焊缝材料的动态本构关系

利用等应变测试法获取了304及316L激光焊接焊缝材料的准静态应力应变曲线,发现焊缝材料 具有明显的细晶硬脆化趋势。利用SHTB技术对304、316L及焊接构件材料高温动态力学性能进行了研究。 根据动态实验数据对不锈钢304及316L母材应变率及温度相关的Johnson-Cook本构方程参数进行了拟合。 利用LS-DYNA建立了SHTB动态拉伸实验数值模型,发现了在应力波加载初始阶段由于结构效应及材料 阻抗不匹配引起的应力不平衡现象。通过动态实验与数值模拟相结合的方法确定了焊缝材料的应变率相关 本构参数。     

Constitutive equations of Micropolar electromagnetic fluids

The fundamentals of electrodynamics of Micropolar fluids are briefly introduced. Balance laws of mass, linear momentum, angular momentum, energy and entropy for Micropolar Fluid Dynamics (MFD) are integrated with Maxwell’s equations. The thermodynamically admissible constitutive equations for Micropolar fluids are obtained from Onsager’s theory and Wang’s representation theorem based on the principle of objectivity. Couple Stress Theory (CST) and Newtonian fluid are shown as the special cases of MFD. From constitutive equations, it is found that, even without any external electromagnetic field, micromotion can induce bound current, a missing phenomenon in classical continuum physics. The linear formulation is specialized for Magneto-Micropolar Fluid Dynamics (M²FD) for the application of plasma physics.     

Compressive strength of fibre composites with random fibre waviness

The compressive strength of unidirectional long fibre composites is predicted for plastic microbuckling from a random two-dimensional distribution of fibre waviness. The effect of the physical size of waviness is addressed by using couple stress theory, with the fibre bending resistance scaling with the fibre diameter d. The predicted statistical distribution of compressive strength is found using a Monte Carlo method. An ensemble of fibre waviness profiles is generated from an assumed spectral density of waviness and the compressive strength for each such realisation is calculated directly by the finite element method. The average predicted strength agrees reasonably with practical values, confirming the hypothesis that microbuckles can be initiated by fibre misalignment. It is found that the probability distribution of strength is well matched by a Weibull fit, and the dependence of the Weibull parameters upon the spectral density of waviness is determined. For the practical range of fibre distributions considered, it is concluded that the strength depends mainly upon the root mean square amplitude of fibre misalignment, with the shape of the power spectral density function playing only a minor role. An engineering model for predicting the compressive strength is proposed, akin to weakest link theory for materials containing flaws. A specimen containing randomly distributed waviness is examined to locate regions of high-fibre misalignment. The strength of each of these weak regions is estimated from a look-up table derived from calculations with idealised circular or elliptical patches of waviness. The strength of the composite is given by the failure stress associated with the weakest such patch. For random distributions of waviness, the predictions using this engineering approach are in good agreement with the direct calculations of strength using the finite element method.     

Constitutive equations for 0-3 polarized PLZT actuators

This article presents constitutive equations of transparent lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT) materials poling along thickness direction or with 0-3 polarization. Discussed first are the Beer’s law of light transmission in transparent solid and the photovoltaic current density in PLZT materials. Formulas for field strength and electrical potential between two electrodes of a PLZT wafer are then derived from the basic photovoltaic equations. By superposing the photovoltaic and the converse piezoelectric effects, we formulate a novel expression for photo-induced strain that is nonlinearly dependent of incident light intensity and varies with light penetration depth in through-thickness direction. On the basis of the derived photo-induced strain, linear and nonlinear constitutive equations of 0-3 polarized PLZT actuators are formulated. The present model is validated by using the available experimental data in the literature. By using the present model with an exponential variation of strain through the thickness, closed-form solutions for the equivalent loads acting on a PLZT unimorph, bimorph and intelligent beam are obtained and then compared with numerical results available in the literature.     

Constitutive equations for a two-component medium under nonstationary loading

I. É. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, Moscow. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 26, No. 11, pp. 76–83, November, 1990.     

Constitutive equations for non-affine polymer networks with slippage of chains

A model is derived for isothermal three-dimensional deformation of polymers with finite strains. A polymer fluid is treated as a permanent network of chains bridged by junctions (entanglements). Macro-deformation of the medium induces two motions at the micro-level: (i) sliding of junctions with respect to their reference positions that reflects non-affine deformation of the network, and (ii) slippage of chains with respect to entanglements that is associated with unfolding of back-loops. Constitutive equations are developed by using the laws of thermodynamics. Three important features characterize the model: (i) the symmetry of relations between the elongation of strands and an appropriate configurational tensor, (ii) the strong nonlinearity of the governing equations, and (iii) the account for the volumetric deformation of the network induced by stretching of chains. The governing equations are applied to the numerical analysis of extensional and shear flows. It is demonstrated that the model adequately describes the time-dependent response of polymer melts observed in conventional rheological tests.