Calibration of materials for photoelastoplastic models

Photoplasticity is a possible method of analyzing the plastic behavior in a structural member. Various problems attendant with this technique, however, especially those concerning the fundamental relationship between the fringe order and the stress, and the photoelastic material in the plastic range remain to be investigated. A few studies on this relationship in a uniaxial stress state have been presented, but no evaluations have been made in a biaxial stress state, which is considered essential for practical application of the technique. Applying the photoelastic and the moiré methods, the relationship is investigated in detail in this paper in both stress states using a tensile specimen with a central hole. It is revealed that in the plate of polycarbonate there is a linear relationship between the fringe order and the difference of principal strains in the plastic range. Paper was presented at the 1982 SESA/JSME Joint Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in Oahu and Maui, HI on May 23–29.     

Photomechanical properties of some birefringent polymers around their glass transition temperatures

This paper describes an investigation and comparison of the optical and mechanical properties of the three polymers—PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate), CT200 and MY750 (both based on bisphenol-A epichlorohydrin). The work was undertaken with the specific purpose of assessing the suitability of these polymers for use in contact studies involving three-dimensional photoelasticity and the stress-freezing technique. The optical property investigated was the variation of photoelastic fringe constant with maximum stress-freezing temperature. The mechanical properties sought were the variation of Young's modulus with temperature and the stress-strain behavior at the stress-freezing temperature. The effects of the magnitude of stress and the soak time in the thermal cycle were also investigated for the MY750 resin. The results provide the optimum peak temperature for the thermal cycle to achieve repeatable values of Young's modulus and fringe constant during stress freezing. The nonlinear stress-strain behavior is quantified and should be a useful reference. The dependence of strain on load and soak time is also shown and is useful in specifying the optimum cycle time for stress freezing and the appropriate stress level. It was concluded that the resin MY750 was the most suitable for photoelastic applications which involved high localized stress, such as contact problems or fracture mechanics studies.     

Alleviation of the stress concentration with analogue reinforcement

In order to reduce the stress concentration around a hole in a plate, new, “analogue” reinforcements instead of reinforcing rings were used in this investigation. In two of these specimens, reinforcements with different volume fractions were arranged to coincide with the stress trajectories for an infinite plate with a hole under uniaxial tension. Two other specimens containing straight rectangular-grid-type reinforcements were made by using a photofabrication method. Specimens were then prepared by sandwiching these reinforcements between two epoxy-resin plates. Plane specimens, i.e., without reinforcement, were also made of the same epoxy resin for comparison. The stress concentrations at the edge of the hole under uniaxial tension were determined by photoelastic techniques. The measured stress-concentration factors were compared with well-known values for an infinite, isotropic, homogeneous plate containing a hole. Results were also compared with published data on [90/0/90/0]_s 7-ply laminated composite plates, and on plates strengthened with reinforcing rings. A definite reduction in stress concentration was observed on specimens containing analogue reinforcement.     

一种动光弹模型材料的制作方法及其应用

基于#618环氧树脂、甲基六氢苯酐、促进剂DMP-30、环氧树脂消泡剂四种原料,提出制作光弹性模型的新配方和新方法,并利用单轴压缩实验、电测法和动态光弹法分别测定了制作的光弹模型的动态力学参数。新方法工艺简单,制作周期短,对人体无害。制作的光弹模型初始应力小,表面光洁,质地均匀,透光性好,光学灵敏度高,具有良好的机械加工和切削性能。通过三点弯曲梁冲击实验,得到了清晰的光弹等差条纹图像,验证了该配方和方法制作的模型可以应用于动态光弹性实验。     

正交异性动态光弹性方法的几个基本问题的研究

文章对适用于动态研究的正交异性光弹性复合材料进行了分析，详细说明了光弹性复合材料中残余双折射的确定方法；基于静态下Ｈｙｅｒ和Ｌｉｕ应力－光性定律，提出了正交异性动态应力－光性定律，并对正交异性材料的动态力学参数及动态光弹性常数给出了实用的标定方法；最后，利用三个单轴压缩试件（０°，９０°及４５°），采用动态应变测量方法，证实了单轴应力状态下正交异性动态应力－光性定律的正确性。     

Stress field tomography based on 3D photoelasticity

A tomographic method for identification of stress fields based on 3D photoelasticity has been developed. A second order tensor field tomographic method based on the general inverse problem of 3D photoelasticity, previously developed by the authors, is found to be highly sensitive to errors in photoelastic observations. In this study a new tomographic method for stress field with fairly high robustness to errors in photoelastic observations has been developed by introducing both equilibrium condition and linear elasticity to the previously developed general tensor field tomographic method. This new stress field tomographic method expands unknown 3D stress distributions as a linear combination of independent set of basis functions and a new inverse problem is posed: identify the amplitudes of basis functions based on photoelastic observations. Just as the inverse problem of 3D photoelasticity, this newly posed inverse problem is also nonlinear and ill posed. Unlike conventional approaches to 3D photoelasticity, both these nonlinearity and ill-posedness are properly treated using a load incremental approach. Load incremental approach chops the nonlinear solution space into segments with unique solutions by conducting photoelastic observations at sufficiently small increments in external load. Validating both numerically and experimentally, it is shown that this new stress field tomographic method has sufficient robustness against errors in photoelastic observations and is applicable to experimental stress measurements.     

Stress evaluation in low-modulus and viscoelastic materials using phtoelastic glass inclusions

Stressmeters are gages designed to enable stress changes to be determined without the need to know the elasticity moduli of the body being studied. This paper describes a technique by which the magnitude of the greatest principal stress in a biaxial-stress field can be determined from the isochromatic fringe pattern in a hollow-cylindrical-glass stressmeter. The influence of the moduli and Poisson's ratio of the meter and host material on the sensitivity of the meter are discussed in detail. It is shown that, for a wide range of rock and concrete-like materials, a glass stressmeter will enable the stresses to be determined directly from the meter readings. Experiments to investigate the behavior of photoelastic stressmeters in host materials which are creeping under stress are described. Results of tests using frozen sand slabs have shown that under uniaxial stress there is little effect of creep on the meter readings until excessive fracturing occurs. There is also close agreement between the theoretical and experimental values for the meter sensitivity when it is assumed that the Poisson's ratio of the host materials falls to 0.5 during creep. When set in such materials the final sensitivity of the meter is also independent of the modulus of the meter provided that creep is continuous. Experiments are described which show that, in a material which is creeping, the stress can be determined by inserting a stressmeter and measuring the final steady reading.     

Photoelasticity for stress analysis under high hydrostatic pressure

Experimental research relative to pressure effects on the mechanical behavior of materials is frequently handicapped by the difficulties associated with making load and deformation measurements in a hostile environment. The application of photoelasticity in high-pressure experiments provides a means for studying the effect of hydrostatic stress on varying stress fields. The purpose of this paper is to examine the feasibility of using the photoelastic method of stress analysis in a high-pressure environment. The unusual feature of this application is the finite elastic deformations suffered by the photoelastic model under high pressure. As a result, the mechanical and stress-optical properties of the model materials are functions of pressure. Another important feature in this study is the selection of a suitable model material. Since the model must come into contact with the liquid pressure media, chemical and absorption resistance are essential considerations. Although it was found that photoelastic investigations can be carried out at high pressure, limitations are imposed by the presence of the optical vessel and pressurized fluid.     

A new photoelastic model for studying fatigue crack closure

The photoelastic analysis of crack tip stress intensity factors has been historically developed for use on sharp notches in brittle materials that idealize the cracked structure. This approach, while useful, is not applicable to cases where residual effects of fatigue crack development (e.g., plasticity, surface roughness) affect the applied stress intensity range. A photoelastic model of these fatigue processes has been developed using polycarbonate, which is sufficiently ductile to allow the growth of a fatigue crack. The resultant stress field has been modeled mathematically using the stress potential function approach of Muskhelishvili to predict the stresses near a loaded but closed crack in an elastic body. The model was fitted to full-field photoelastic data using a combination of a generic algorithm and the downhill simplex method. The technique offers a significant advance in the ability to characterize the behavior of fatigue cracks with plasticity-induced closure, and hence to gain new insights into the associated mechanisms.     

Orthotropic photoelastic analysis of residual stresses in filament-wound rings

In the filament-winding process for fabricating composite materials, winding tension and other factors combine to produce a residual-stress state in the wound structure. Techniques have been developed for producing a transparent composite, and the orthotropic photoelastic method was applied to determine this residual stress in circumferentially wound rings. Results from the photoelastic analysis were compared with two other residual-stress-determination methods: the boring-out and cut-through methods. Satisfactory agreement was achieved on most of the data. However, peak stresses revealed in the photoelastic-analysis method were not indicated by the other two methods.     

Microscopic modelling of volume expansion and pressure dependence of plastic yielding in crystalline solids

Summary The present paper deals with a nonlinear finite element procedure for the macroscopic rate-independent analysis of micromechanics of crystalline solids undergoing finite elastic-plastic deformations including plastic volume expanding effects. Particular attention is focused on deviations from the Schmid law of the critical resolved shear stress to model different stress-deflection behavior in uniaxial tension and compression tests. Numerical simulations of elastic-plastic boundary-value problems should demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm and discuss the influence of different model parameters on stress-carrying and deformation behavior observed experimentally. Accepted for publication 3 June 1997     

Photoelastic Stress Analysis by Use of Hybrid Technique and Fringe Phase Shifting Method

0Introduction Photoelasticityisanopticalmeasurementmethodforstressanalysis.Itcanperformwhole field measurementduetotwo dimensionalsignalprocessingoflight.Alsoitcanperformnon contact measurementbecauseoftransmissionorreflectionoflightonaspecimen.Photoelast…     

Ratchetting of viscoplastic material with cyclic softening,part 1: experiments on modified 9Cr–1Mo steel

Uniaxial and multiaxial ratchetting tests were conducted at temperatures between 200 and 600 °C on modified 9Cr–1Mo steel, which exhibits both viscoplastic and cyclic softening behavior. Anomalous behavior was observed in the stress-controlled uniaxial ratchetting tests; the material exhibited outstanding ratchetting in the tensile direction under zero mean stress. Under the uniaxial conditions, the ratchetting deformation significantly depended on the loading rate and hold time in addition to parameters such as the maximum stress and stress ratio. The uniaxial ratchetting was also accelerated to a great extent when cyclic deformation was given before the ratchetting tests. Under the multiaxial conditions, the ratchetting depended on the steady stress, cyclic strain range and strain rate. The ratchetting progressed faster as the steady stress or strain range became larger, or the strain rate became smaller, as expected. Monotonic compression tests were carried out to investigate the reason for the rachetting under no mean stress. Strain range change tests were also conducted to investigate the effect of strain range on the cyclic softening behavior of the material in detail.     

Development of a Hybrid Method of Reflection Photoelasticity for Crack Problems in Anisotropic Plates

Reflection type photoelastic experiment can be used more effectively than a transmission type photoelastic experiment especially in industrial fields. Moreover, composite materials have been widely used in engineering applications and structures because of their outstanding advantages which individual isotropic components do not have. The development of these materials requires a promising technique such as reflection photoelasticity to analyze their behaviors in service. Unfortunately, there are few experimental studies based on this technique. Therefore, a hybrid method based on this technique was developed in this research to analyze the fracture behavior of opaque anisotropic materials. The application of this method will help to understand the fracture behaviors of anisotropic materials used in engineering components and structures. The validity of this method was verified by comparison of the results obtained from this method with ones obtained from the hybrid methods for isotropic material on the same isotropic specimen. The reflection type photoelastic experiment for orthotropic materials was then applied to orthotropic plates with a central crack of various inclination angles. Using this hybrid method for anisotropic materials, stress intensity factors and separated stress components were obtained at the vicinity of the crack-tip in orthotropic plates from only the isochromatic fringe patterns of the isotropic coating material.     

单搭接胶接接头拉伸剪切性能的数值模拟与实验研究

采用数值模拟和光测技术对单向拉伸载荷作用下单搭接胶接接头中的剪切性能进行分析,研究了不同厚度胶层中切应力的变化规律。用有限元方法(FEM)对不同胶层厚度的试件进行建模,得到了拉伸载荷下胶粘剂中的切应力分布及其统计参数。利用数字图像相关(digitalimage correlation,DIC)方法对试件的变形场进行测量。结果表明,当胶粘剂的厚度较小时,胶粘剂中的切应力的分布统计参数随着其厚度的增加会有显著的变化,但是当厚度超过一定的数值时,统计参数对厚度的变化不再敏感。     

An experimental study on the ratcheting behavior of pure aluminium under uniaxial cyclic stressing

An experimental study was carried out for the cyclic properties of pure aluminium subjected to uniaxial cyclic straining and stressing. For a material of pure aluminium the effects of the cyclic strain amplitude history and mean strain on the cyclic deformation behavior were investigated, and the influences of stress amplitude, mean stress and their histories on cyclic creep (i. e., ratcheting) were analyzed. It is shown that either uniaxial cyclic property under cyclic straining or ratcheting behavior under asymmetric uniaxial loading depends not only on the current loading, but also on the previous loading history. Some significant results were obtained.Financial support from NFSC is acknowledged.     

Photoelastic modeling of the fracture of viscoelastic orthotropic plates with a crack

The well-known equations of photoelasticity of linear viscoelastic bodies are used to describe the photoelastic behavior of a viscoelastic orthotropic plate with a crack. Expressions for the stress intensity factors (SIFs) at the crack tip are obtained using photoelastic measurements. The time dependence of the SIFs is analyzed and shown to be determined by the angles between directions of the crack and tension     

Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms for Stress Separation in Photoelasticity

An experimental-numerical hybrid method for the stress separation in photoelasticity is proposed in this study. In the proposed method, boundary conditions for a local finite element model, that is, tractions along boundaries are inversely determined from photoelastic fringes. Two algorithms are proposed for determining the boundary condition. One is a linear algorithm in which the tractions are obtained by the method of linear least-squares from both principal stress difference and principal direction. Another is the nonlinear algorithm in which the tractions are determined only from the principal stress difference. After determining the boundary conditions for the local finite element model, the stresses can be obtained by finite element direct analysis. The effectiveness is demonstrated by applying the proposed method to a perforated plate under tension and contact problems. Results show that the boundary conditions of the local finite element model can be determined from the photoelastic fringes and then the individual stresses can be obtained by the proposed method. Furthermore, the stresses can be evaluated even if the boundary condition is complicated such as at the contact surface. It is expected that the proposed method can be powerful tool for stress analysis.     

Mesoscale modeling of nonlinear elasticity and fracture in ceramic polycrystals under dynamic shear and compression

Dynamic deformation and failure mechanisms in polycrystalline ceramics are investigated through constitutive modeling and numerical simulation. Two ceramics are studied: silicon carbide (SiC, hexagonal crystal structure) and aluminum oxynitride (AlON, cubic crystal structure). Three dimensional finite element simulations incorporate nonlinear anisotropic elasticity for behavior of single crystals within polycrystalline aggregates, cohesive zone models for intergranular fracture, and contact interactions among fractured interfaces. Boundary conditions considered include uniaxial strain compression, uniaxial stress compression, and shear with varying confinement, all at high loading rates. Results for both materials demonstrate shear-induced dilatation and increasing shear strength with increasing confining pressure. Failure statistics for unconfined loading exhibit a smaller Weibull modulus (corresponding to greater scatter in peak failure strength) in AlON than in SiC, likely a result of lower prescribed cohesive fracture strength and greater elastic anisotropy in the former. In both materials, the predicted Weibull modulus tends to decrease with an increasing number of grains contained in the simulated microstructure.     

On the studies of residual stresses in glass plates

The theoretical foundation of the photoelastic methods being presently used for measuring and analyzing residual stresses in glass is insufficient for studying development of transient viscoelastic stress states in glass plates during tempering process and for an explanation of the actual material behavior. It is shown that the basic knowledge of photoviscoelastic effect in glass over a wide range of electromagnetic radiation and temperature is necessary for such on analysis. Some photoelastic properties of plate glass are presented.