Analysis of possible combinations of local stresses in local strain theory

In determining the strain tensor e_ij instead of all the components of the local stress deviator, it is possible to use only the shear stress _xz acting on a small local area. This fact makes it easy to establish the incremental loading conditions in solving complex loading problems for a plastic material. It is shown that in the local strain theory, distinct from the deformation theory, at degrees of nonlinearity n>3 the effect of the third, as well as the second, invariant of the stress deviator is taken into account.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 636–644, 1967     

Variants of the local strains theory

By means of the proposed new variants of the local strains theory it is possible to solve a broad class of complex loading problems for initially isotropic materials. The basic equations for a series of variants of incompressible and compressible materials are derived. The author investigates the possibility of using the relations obtained to solve complex loading problems for materials with irreversible plastic strains or with different physical reversible or irreversible creep relations depending on the loading path.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 233–240, March–April, 1970.     

Loading conditions in the local strains theory

Use of the local strains theory [7, 8] makes it possible to extend the loading criterion to complex loading paths if the hardening conditions are related to the local strains on individual small areas. Then the components of the total plastic strain increment are determined by integration over only those local areas on which the given loading condition is satisfied [9]. It is shown that the components of the strain tensor depend significantly on the loading history and the loading condition employed. The changes in the loading zones on the unit sphere are investigated for particular cases of complex loading as a function of the various loading conditions and the loading parameter.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 29–34, 1967     

Relations between the strain and stress tensors in successive biaxial tension

The manner of applying the load is one of the main factors governing the formation of the principal strains and their limiting values. Starting from the theory of local strains, relations between the strain and stress tensors are formulated for both simple and complex loading. It is shown that the principal strains associated with a given stress state vary depending upon the loading path.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 43–51, 1965     

Effect of combined loading on the components of the compliance tensor in shell stability problems

The local strains theory is used to establish relations for determining the components of the compliance tensor in shell buckling with allowance for combined loading of the material at the buckling point and as a function of the precritical loading path in stress space.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 387–391, 1966     

Plastic flow in a conical channel: Qualitative features of the solutions under different yield conditions

The problem of the convergence of the solutions of problems of plasticity theory, with a yield condition which depends on the hydrostatic stress, to solutions based on classical plasticity theory with von Mises or Tresea conditions is considered, with a particular choice of the parameters of the material model. For the case of axisymmetric flow of material in a channel with converging and diverging walls, solutions according to two plasticity theories with a yield condition which depends on the hydrostatic stress are compared with the classical solution. It is shown that only the solution using Spencer's model shows all the main features of the classical solution. As the internal criterion of the choice of the preferred plasticity theory when examining a special class of problems, it is suggested that the criterion of the convergence of the solutions to the solutions of classical plasticity theory should be used.     

Complex loading of a polymer material with nonlinear creep

The nonlinear tensor stress, strain, and time relations for a memory-type medium under complex loading are examined using degenerate kernels. The basic expressions for simple loading and the material parameters were determined in [5]. The local strains theory is used to find expressions for the strain components in the presence of stepwise complex variation of the stress components, and these expressions are shown to be in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data for high-density polyethylene.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 421–426, 1967     

A finite elasto-plasticity model for thick adhesive layers based on generalized stress-strain measure

The collective term adhesives includes a wide field of materials with a diversity of different material properties. Regarding high-strength adhesives, the assumption of small strains often holds according to their brittle behavior. The experience with plasticity models based on the additive decomposition into elastic and inelastic strains indicates an appropriate approach to characterize such materials. In some cases, due to a more ductile material response, the assumption of infinitesimal strains is not valid anymore. In particular this is the case for high-strength adhesives with additives like rubber. But ductile behavior is also observed for specific stress states in one adhesive, e.g. when the behavior for tensile is quite brittle while large shear-strains could appear. The objective of this work is to overcome the theoretical restriction of small strains and to archive the practical experiences. For the failure criterion two stress invariants are used, which involves the hydrostatic pressure as well as the deviator stress state. The flowrule is introduced for the evolution of the inelastic variables. Herein the flow rule has to be of non-associated type to ensure the thermodynamical consistency of the model. The plasticity model also includes hardening as well as softening. The presented finite strain model makes use of the fact that the eigenvalues for Green-Lagrange strains and generalized strains are the same. Thus the limit of applicability is extended to finite strains. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Correspondence principle and the method of approximations for certain nonlinear hereditary media

Problems for two classes of nonlinear hereditary media are reduced by integral transforms to problems of the nonlinear theory of elasticity. An approximation of the elastic solution that makes it possible to solve the formulated problems for nonlinear hereditary materials is demonstrated in the case when the viscoelastic problems reduce to problems of the theory of small elastoplastic strains with active loading.Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 66–73, January–February, 1971.     

SPH method applied to compression of solid materials for a variety of loading conditions

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a numerical method that does not use a mesh or grid when solving a set of partial differential equations. This makes it particularly useful in application to solid mechanics problems where the sample undergoes large deformation. Whereas mesh-based methods have difficulty when the sample becomes severely distorted, SPH naturally deals with this important engineering scenario. We implement the SPH method for compressional deformation of solid samples and focus on uniaxial, biaxial and triaxial loading. We develop numerical procedures that naturally deal with these three different sets of boundary conditions and apply it to both small and larger strains in elastic and more complex materials. The method is shown to be robust up to large strains of 30%. Under uniaxial loading, a cylindrical sample tends to deform by bulging while under triaxial loading the cylindrical sample will remain cylindrical, but the diameter of the sample increases accordingly.     

引用复变量伪应力函数来解幂硬化材料平面应力问题

本文引用复变量伪应力函数将幂硬化材料平面应力问题的协调方程化为双调和方程,从而使此类有强化材料的弹塑性平面应力问题能像线弹性力学平面问题那样采用复变函数法进行求解.本文推导出了幂硬化材料平面应力问题的应力、应变及位移分量的复变函数表达式,可推广应用于满足全量理论的一股弹塑性平面应力问题.作为算例,文中给出了含圆孔幂硬化材料无限大板单向受拉问题的解答,并和有关文献用摄动法获得的同一问题的渐近解进行了比较.     

Theoretical and experimental study of the elastoplastic state of cylindrical shells with rigid inclusions

A study is made of the stress distribution around a rigid circular inclusion on the lateral surface of a cylindrical shell subjected to a uniformly distributed load. The stress distribution present during the elastoplastic stage of deformation of the shell material is studied. Calculated results are obtained on the basis of the numerical solution of inelastic problems in accordance with the theory of thin shells and the strain theory of plasticity for the case of active loading. Experimental data for shells loaded by internal pressure are obtained with the use of pneumatic gauges. The data are in the form of values of the strains and changes in curvature in characteristic sections of the shell. The theoretical and experimental results are compared and analyzed.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 18, pp. 72–76, 1987.     

Simple loading of a polymer material with nonlinear creep

Nonlinear tensor relations between strain, stress, and time are examined for a memory-type medium using degenerate kernels. The material parameters are determined from creep tests in a simple state of stress. Expressions for the strain associated with a complex state of stress and simple loading, found on the basis of the local strains theory, are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data obtained for specimens of high-density polyethylene.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 236–242, 1967     

A successive approximations method of designing viscoplastic film structures

The solution of problems in which plasticity and creep have to be taken into account necessitates the formulation of cumber some nonlinear differential equations. Finding a solution (analytical or numerical) of these equations is a complex mathematical problem. In some cases, when more detailed data on the mechanical properties of the material in a complex stress state are available, the solution of such problems can be simplified by making use of the aging theory associated with the Tresca-St. Venant conditions of creep. A numerical solution is obtained in this case with the aid of geometrical conditions and equilibrium equations; the accuracy of the solution is determined by the number of approximations.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 137–144, 1965     

Multiaxial constitutive modeling of aircraft engine materials

Based on a newly developed theory (Lu and Weng, Acta Mech., in press) the high temperature behavior of an aircraft engine material is studied under combined stress state. Both monotonic and cyclic deformations are examined to uncover its stress-strain response, as well as its cyclic hardening and strain-ratchetting characteristics. Under a biaxial loading it is disclosed that tensile cyclic hardening is greatly magnified with a superimposed lateral tension, whereas the strain-ratchetting process is led to an enhanced, unsettling state with a superimposed lateral compression. The biaxial transient and steady-state creep strains have also been calculated. The results suggest that while a superimposed lateral tension will inhibit the creep deformation, a lateral compression can greatly promote the inelastic flow. To reflect the practical service conditions of an aircraft engine, the theory is further applied to examine the effect of loading frequency on the development of inelastic strains under concurrent thermal and mechanical loading. It is found that a more frequently flying aircraft will have a greater accumulation of creep strains and, consequently, a greater possibility of material damage in its engine components over the same total flying time.     

Material state change relationships to fracture path development for large-strain fatigue of composite materials

The long-term performance of engineering structures is typically discussed in terms of such concepts as structural integrity, durability, damage tolerance, fracture toughness, etc. These familiar concepts are usually addressed by considering balance equations, crack growth relationships, constitutive equations with constant material properties, and constant or cyclically applied load conditions. The loading histories are represented by changing stress (or strain) states only. For many situations, especially for those associated with high-performance engineering structures, the local state of the material may also change during service, so that the properties used in the equations are functions of time and history of applied conditions. For example, the local values of stiffness, strength, and conductivity are altered by material degradation to create "property fields" that replace the global constants, and introduce time and history into the governing equations. The present paper will examine a small set of such problems, which involve the accumulation of distributed damage and the development of an eventual fracture path leading to failure. Specifically, the paper discusses this problem in the context of material state changes measured by impedance variations as a method of following the details of fracture path development. An analysis and interpretations of observations will be presented, and limitations and opportunities associated with this general concept will be discussed.     

Elastoplastic deformation during projectile–wall collision

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method for elastic solid deformation is modified to include von Mises plasticity with linear isotropic hardening and is then used to investigate high speed collisions of elastic and elastoplastic bodies. The Lagrangian mesh-free nature of SPH makes is very well suited to these extreme deformation problems eliminating issues relating to poor element quality at high strains that limits finite element usage for these types of problems. It demonstrates excellent numerical stability at very high strains (of more than 200%). SPH can naturally track history dependent material properties such as the cumulative plastic strain and the degree of work hardening produced by its strain history. The high speed collisions modelled here demonstrate that the method can cope easily with collisions of multiple bodies and can also naturally resolve self-collisions of bodies undergoing high levels of plastic strain. The nature and the extent of the elastic and plastic deformation of a rectangular body impacting on an elastic wall and of an elastic projectile impacting on a thin elastic wall are investigated. The final plastically deformed shapes of the projectile and wall are compared for a range of material properties and the evolution of the maximum plastic strain throughout each collision and the coefficient of restitution are used to make quantitative comparisons. Both the elastoplastic projectile–elastic wall and the elastic projectile–elastoplastic wall type collisions have two distinct plastic flow regimes that create complex relationships between the yield stress and the responses of the solid bodies.     

On the constitutive relations for isotropic and transversely isotropic materials

In this work the strain and stress spaces constitutive relations for isotropic and transversely isotropic softening materials are developed. The loading surface is considered in the strain space and the normality rule; the stress relaxation is proportional to the gradient of the loading surface, is adopted. It is found that the strain space plasticity theory allows us to describe the hardening, perfectly plastic and softening materials more accurately. The validity of the strain space constitutive relation for transversely isotropic materials are confirmed by comparing with the experimental data for fiber reinforced composite materials. Some numerical examples in two and three dimensional elasto-plastic problems for various loading–unloading conditions are presented, and give a very good agreement with the existing results.     

Predicting the transverse strength of unidirectional composites under combination loading

This article presents a mathematical model for predicting the transverse strength of unidirectional fiber composites subjected to combination transverse loading under different conditions. The behavior of the matrix is described by nonlinear physical equations consistent with the strain theory of plasticity for the active loading section. The fibers are assumed to be isotropic and elastic. The boundary-value problem of micromechanics that is formulated includes strength criteria for the matrix and fibers that mark the beginning of their possible failure. The modeling of the fracture process is taken farther through the use of a scheme that reduces the stiffness of the matrix and fibers in the failed regions in relation to the sign of the first invariant of the stress tensor. The method of local approximation is used together with the finite-element method to calculate the stress and strain fields in unidirectional composites with cylindrical fibers in a tetragonal layup. The model is used to study the behavior of an epoxy-based organic-fiber-reinforced plastic subjected to transverse loading in different simple paths — including simultaneous compressive and tensile loads, as well as transverse shear.Paper to be presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Mechanics of Composite Materials (Riga, October 1995).Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 473–481, July–August, 1995.     

Structural damage accumulation and stable postcritical deformation of composite materials

The macroscopic failure of composite materials is preceded by complex multilevel processes accompanied by accumulation and localization of damaged centers and formation of a failure cluster. Therefore, the study of these mechanisms is one of the basic problems for the mechanics of modern composite materials used in aerospace engineering. The formation of a theory of the stable postcritical deformation of the work-softening media is considered. The pseudo-plastic deformation affected by structural damage of granular composites is investigated within the framework of the considered two-level structurally phenomenological model of heterogeneous media. The stable evolution of the interconnected processes is accompanied by stress redistributions, partial or complete unloading, and strain or damage localization that are one of the main causes of implementation of the postcritical deformation stage. The numerical calculation results of inelastic deformation and failure of the periodic unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites are presented under conditions of the displacement-controlled transverse proportional loading mode. The main mechanisms of the work-softening behavior for the indicated type of materials are described in the macro-homogeneous stress-strain states. Macroscopically, the failure of heterogeneous media as a result of postcritical deformation and the loss of stability of damage accumulation depends on the stiffness of the loading system. When a deformable body is fixed on the closed surface with sufficiently but not infinitely large coefficients of stiffness, it is possible to observe the equilibrium development of the localized volumes of work-softening and damage. The constitutive equations for the work-softening isotropic, transverse isotropic, and orthotropic media are presented. The effect of the loading system on the stability of deformation, damage accumulation, and failure under monotone and nonmonotone triaxial loading was studied. The growth of failure strains with increase in stiffness of the loading system and unequal resistance of heterogeneous body are registered and investigated. A preventive unloading method is offered for the mathematical modeling of the damage accumulation during the testing of the materials on the servo-controlled systems. The displacement-controlled mode is simulated by a series of soft loading and unloading cycles. The detected phenomenon of failure where the unloading leads to stress-strain diagrams with a negative slope of the descending branch was not found either in the displacement or stress-controlled monotone loading mode.Submitted to the 10th International Conference on Mechanics of Composite Materials, April 20–23, 1998, Riga, Latvia.Perm' State Technical University, Russia. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 234–250, March–April, 1998.