Evaluating large plastic strains in shock-loaded beams

Conclusions The simple relations obtained make it possible to satisfactorily evaluate large plastic strains (deflections) of uniform and nonuniform beams with fixed ends in the case where the beam is made of a strain-rate-sensitive material and is subjected to static or purely impulsive transverse loads. With allowance for the method in [2], these relations can be used to determine combinations of the parameters P and I of different forms of shock load corresponding to a given level of large plastic strains in beams.Moscow. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 66–71, March, 1986.     

Heterogeneity of Plastic Flow of Zirconium Alloys with a Parabolic Law of Strain Hardening

The specific features of plastic–strain macrolocalization at the stage of the parabolic law of strain hardening in samples from industrial zirconium–based alloys are considered. It is shown that in predeformed blanks, zones with a different character of plastic–strain localization are formed. It is also shown that the strain–localization macropattern can be used as a characteristic of the susceptibility of a material to further plastic form–changing, for example, upon tube rolling. The sign of fracture of alloys upon plastic deformation is revealed. The scale effect in the formation of localizedplastic–flow zones is shown and studied.     

On dimensionless numbers for dynamic plastic response of structural members

Summary A dimensional analysis is reported for the dynamic plastic response and failure of structural members, which includes material strain hardening, strain rate and temperature effects. Critical shear failure conditions are also discussed based on the dimensional analysis results. It is shown that the response number R _n proposed in [3], is an important independent dimensionless number for the dynamic plastic bending and membrane response of structural members. However, additional dimensionless numbers are necessary when transverse shear, strain hardening, strain rate, and temperature effects are important. Received 22 February 1999; accepted for publication 15 June 1999     

Pressure-shear waves in 6061-T6 aluminum and alpha-titanium

Thepressure-shear plate impact technique is used to study material behavior at high rates of deformation. In this technique, plastic waves of combined pressure and shear stresses are produced by impact of parallel plates skewed relative to their direction of approach. Commercially pure alpha-titanium and 6061-T6 aluminum are tested under a variety of pressure and shear tractions by using different combinations of impact velocities and angles of inclination. A laser interferometer system is used to monitor simultaneously the normal and transverse components of motion of a point at the rear surface of the target plate. The experimental results are compared with numerical solutions based on an elastic/viscoplastic model of the material. Both isotropic and kinematic strain hardening models are used in the computations. The results indicate that unlike the normal velocity profiles, the transverse velocity profiles are sensitive to the dynamic plastic response and, thus, can be used to study material behavior at high strain rates. For the materials tested the results suggest that the flow stress required for plastic straining increases markedly with increasing strain rate at strain rates above 10⁴s^?1. Hydrostatic pressure of the order that exists in the tests (up to 2 GPa) does not affect the plastic flow in 6061-T6 aluminum and appears to have at most a minor effect on the deformation of the titanium.     

Problem of a solid half-space melted by a hot rotating disk or ring

The sliding friction of solids at high speed and under heavy load may be accompanied by a transition to the plastic or fluid state in the friction contact zone [1]. The stage corresponding to a developed fluid layer is investigated without taking into account the plastic deformation of the rubbing bodies; it is assumed that all the heat released is expended exclusively on melting the solid. Previous attempts to investigate this stage theoretically have been based on the approximation of a fluid layer of constant thickness and the use of the heat balance equation [1, 2]. Here, the velocity and temperature profiles are approximated by relations quadratic in the transverse coordinate with coefficients that depend on the longitudinal coordinate. These are determined from the boundary conditions and the integral relations of boundary layer theory. The relations obtained are used to determine the rate at which a hot rotating ring melts through a block of ice.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 30–34, May–June, 1990.     

Anisotropic parameter identification using inhomogeneous tensile test

In this contribution, an inverse identification strategy of constitutive laws for elastoplastic behaviour is presented. The proposed inverse algorithm is composed on an appropriate finite element calculation combined with an optimisation procedure. It is applied to identify material anisotropic coefficients using a set up of easy performed laboratory tests. The used experimental data are the plane tensile test and the off axes tensile tests. The identified behaviour models are mainly based on Hill's quadratic yield criterion. Two cases of this yield criterion have been considered: the transverse isotropic and the orthotropic one under an associated and non-associated flow rule assumptions for each case. The yield surface has been assumed to expand isotropically (isotropic strain hardening law) as a function of the plastic work.In order to better describe anisotropic plastic properties of the studied materials, a recently planar anisotropic yield function is used. It is a non-quadratic yield criterion which takes account of anisotropic yield stresses as well as anisotropic strain ratios. It is subsequently shown that the agreement between inverse identification results and experimental measurements were improved.We prove also that the presented strategy is a good alternative to the simplified homogeneous tests assumption, especially for the plane tensile test.     

Very Large Poisson’s Ratio with a Bounded Transverse Strain in Anisotropic Elastic Materials

In a recent paper by Ting and Chen [18] it was shown by examples that Poisson’s ratio can have no bounds for all anisotropic elastic materials. With the exception of cubic materials, the examples presented involve a very large transverse strain. We show here that a very large Poisson’s ratio with a bounded transverse strain exists for all anisotropic elastic materials. The large Poisson’s ratio with a bounded transverse strain occurs when the axial strain is in the direction very near or at the direction along which Young’s modulus is very large. In fact the transverse strain has to be very small for the material to be stable. If the non-dimensionalized Young’s modulus is of the order δ⁻¹, where δ is very small, the axial strain, the transverse strain and Poisson’s ratio are of the order δ, δ^1/2 and δ^−1/2, respectively. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000) 74B05, 74E10.T.C.T. Ting: Professor Emeritus of University of Illinois at Chicago and Consulting Professor of Stanford University.     

Stability of an elastoplastic sphere under external pressure

The stability of ideally plastic, elastoplastic, and reinforced elastoviscoplastic bodies subjected to large subcritical strains was investigated in [1–4], The problems solved in these papers were related to the stability of systems in which homogeneous stress and strain fields arise in the initial state. The stability of an elastic thick-walled spherical shell subjected to external pressure leading to large subcritical strains was investigated in [5]. The stability of an axisymmetric sphere of elastoplastic material subjected to large plastic strains is examined below.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 5, pp. 155–159, September–October, 1977.     

Linear relationship between the first invariants of the stress and strain tensors in theories of plasticity with strain hardening

Energy-coupled stress and strain measures are defined in Euler coordinates. They are used to analyze the relationship between the first invariants of the stress and strain tensors for linearity and to determine strains at which the plastic component of the first strain invariant can be neglected. It is established that this relationship remains linear within an engineering plastic-strain tolerance of 0.2% irrespective of the value of strain intensity, which depends on the type of material and its stress state __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 60–72, March 2007.     

Determination of the Constitutive Relation Parameters of a Metallic Material by Measurement of Temperature Increment in Compressive Dynamic Tests

The mechanical behaviour of a material can be established by an analytic expression called the constitutive relation that shows stress as a function of plastic strain, strain rate, temperature, and possibly other thermo-mechanical variables. The constitutive relation usually includes such parameters as coefficients or exponents that must be determined. At a high strain rate, the heat generated during the deformation process is directly related to the plastic deformation energy of the material. This energy can be calculated from the plastic work, resulting in an expression that includes the constitutive relation parameters as variables. The heat generated can also be estimated by measuring the temperature surface of the specimen during compressive tests using the technique of infrared thermography. The objective of this paper is to present a procedure for determining the constitutive relation parameters by measuring the temperature increase associated with plastic strain in compressive Hopkinson tests. The procedure was applied to estimate the parameters of the Johnson–Cook constitutive relation of an aluminium alloy (Al6082).     

An analysis of the shear failure of rigid-linear hardening beams under impulsive loading

A theoretical rigid-plastic analysis for the dynamic shear failure of beams under impulsive loading is presented when using a travelling plastic shear hinge model which takes into account material strain hardening. The maximum dynamic shear strain and shear strain-rate can be predicted in addition to the permanent transverse deflections and other parameters. The conditions for the three modes of shear failure, i.e., excess deflection failure, excess shear strain failure and adiabatic shear failure are analyzed. The special case of an infinitesimally small plastic zone is discussed and compared with Nonaka's solution for a rigid, perfectly plastic material. The results can also be generalized to examine the dynamic response of fibre-reinforced beams.     

Calculation of Layered Shells by the Pseudogeometrical–Nonlinearity Method

The problem of determining the stress—strain state of a multilayered shell is solved. It is assumed that the layer material is nonlinearly elastic and the strain—displacement relations are nonlinear. The displacements are expanded in terms of the functions of transverse coordinate that contain unknown parameters. The governing equations are derived with the use of the Lagrange variational principle. A technique for minimizing the energy functional is proposed. An example of a three–layered beam is considered, calculation results are compared with the exact solution, and the specific features of the approach proposed are analyzed.     

Numerical simulation of plastic-flow localization for simple shear

An algorithm was developed to numerically simulate plastic-flow localization for simple shear of a thermally plastic and viscoplastic material. The algorithm is based on solving the partial differential equations describing continuum flow. The closing equation is the constitutive relation known in the literature as the power law linking the plastic-strain rate to the flow stress, temperature, and accumulated plastic strain. Calculated relations for the time evolution of the shear-band width and the temperature and plastic strains localized in it agree satisfactorily with experimental relations. Good agreement with experimental results is also obtained for the sample temperature distribution at the developed stage of the localization process.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 173–180, January–February, 2005     

Benchmark trigonometric and 3-D elasticity solutions for an exponentially graded thick rectangular plate

The bending problem of a transverse load acting on an isotropic inhomogeneous rectangular plate using both two-dimensional (2-D) trigonometric and three-dimensional (3-D) elasticity solutions is considered. In the present 2-D solution, trigonometric terms are used for the displacements in addition to the initial terms of a power series through the thickness. The effects due to transverse shear and normal deformations are both included. The form of the assumed 2-D displacements is simplified by enforcing traction-free boundary conditions at the faces of the plate. No transverse shear correction factors are needed because a correct representation of the transverse shearing strain is given. The plate material is exponentially graded, meaning that Lamé’s coefficients vary exponentially in a given fixed direction (the thickness direction). A wide variety of results for the displacements and stresses of an exponentially graded rectangular plate are presented. The validity of the present 2-D trigonometric solution is demonstrated by comparison with the 3-D elasticity solution. The influence of aspect ratio, side-to-thickness ratio and the exponentially graded parameter on the bending response are investigated.     

Description of anisotropy of isotropic materials caused by plastic strain

Many materials are polycrystalline media or hardened mechanical mixtures of complicated structure. For small elastic strains, they behave as isotropic media. But under stresses exceeding the elastic limit, these materials exhibit effects related to strain anisotropy. The problem of quantitatively estimating this phenomenon still remains open. In the present paper, without any assumptions, we reduce the nonlinear Novozhilov equations to a form typical of the constitutive relations for orthotropic media. We obtain expressions for generalized nonlinear elasticity characteristics by choosing a specific expression for the strain potential. We derive working formulas for calculating the elasticity coefficients in the principal directions and of all coefficients of the transverse strains and shear moduli in the principal planes of elastic symmetry. We describe methods for determining them from the results of extension-compression tests. We also analyze several results of tests published on this subject. We show that the effect related to the anomalous behavior of the transverse strain coefficient, which is observed both under compression and under tension, can be explained completely if the fact that the plastic strain is accompanied with strain anisotropy effects is taken into account.     

Identification of pulse shapes during transverse impact on composite beams and plates

A test facility for transverse shock loading of beams and plates at small impact velocities (up to 40 km/sec) is described. The impact contact force and unsteady strains are determined for a transverse impact on fiber-layered beams and plates from fiberglass and carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. Pulse shapes are determined for various impact velocities in the range of 5–40 m/sec. The shock loading and unsteady strain of composite beams and plates are calculated by the finite element method. The finite elements take into account transverse shears according to the Timoshenko theory and the viscoelastic material behavior according to the Voigt model.     

Derivation of the general form of elasticity tensor of the transverse isotropic material by tensor derivate

SymbolsU--FunchonofstrainenergyQ--OrthonormaltensorE--StraintensorEar--ComponentsofthestraintensorE,i,j=l,2,3n--VectorofthesymmetricaamsofthetransverseisotropicmaterialU*,E.,n*--FormsofU,EandninanothercoordinatesystemJf--MaininvariantsofstraintensorE,i=l,2,3Jf'n--InvariantsofstraintensorEconnectingwithvectorn,i=4,5Ji--TheabbreviatedformsofJf,Jf,Jf,Jf,",Jf,",i=l,2,3,4,5fi--ConstantsindependentonE,n,i=l,2,3,4,5el,e"--Thecovariantandcontravariantofthonormalbasisoftheusedcoordinatesyste…     

Simply approximate estimation of local failure position of a free-free slender shell

Dynamic plastic failure characteristics of a space free-free slender shell subjected to intense dynamic loading of suddenly applied pressure unsymmetrical triangle distributed along its span was studied. Both rigid perfectly plastic (r-p-p) analytical method and finite element method based elastic perfectly plastic (e-p-p) material idealization and shell element model were adopted to predict the local failure position in the structure. It was shown that both r-p-p and e-p-p model could estimate a plastic “kink” taking place in the slender shell, which reflects the strain localization of deformation. The comparison for the position of “kink” predicted by using r-p-p and e-p-p methods is found to be reasonable good.     

Diffusion of particles in a homogeneous pseudofluidized bed

The coefficients of longitudinal and transverse diffusion of the particles in a pseudofluidized bed are calculated for an arbitrary value of the Reynolds number characterizing the flow of the pseudofluidizing medium around the particles. The theory is compared with experiment.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 1, pp. 79–83, January–February, 1972.