An electrical pulse-heated Kolsky bar technique for high strain rate flow stress measurements of rapidly heated metals

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Mates ◽  
S. Banovic ◽  
R. Rhorer ◽  
T. Burns ◽  
E. Whitenton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Kolsky Bar ◽  
Electrical Pulse ◽  
Stress Measurements

Study on Dynamic Mechanical Response of TC21 Alloy

2011 ◽  
Vol 88-89 ◽  
pp. 674-678
Author(s):  
Shuang Zan Zhao ◽  
Xing Wang Cheng ◽  
Fu Chi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Hardening ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Dynamic Flow ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical ◽  
Hardening Effect ◽  
High Strain Rate Deformation ◽  
Binary Morphology

Some results of an experimental study on high strain rate deformation of TC21 alloy are discussed in this paper. Cylindrical specimens of the TC21 alloys both in binary morphology and solution and aging morphology were subjected to high strain rate deformation by direct impact using a Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar. The deformation process is dominated by both thermal softening effect and strain hardening effect under high strain rate loading. Thus the flow stress doesn’t increase with strain rate at the strain hardening stage, while the increase is obvious under qusi-static compression. Under high strain rate, the dynamic flow stress is higher than that under quasi-static and dynamic flow stress increase with the increase of the strain rate, which indicates the strain rate hardening effect is great in TC21 alloy. The microstructure affects the dynamic mechanical properties of TC21 titanium alloy obviously. Under high strain rate, the solution and aging morphology has higher dynamic flow stress while the binary morphology has better plasticity and less prone to be instability under high strain rate condition. Shear bands were found both in the solution and aging morphology and the binary morphology.

Temperature and Strain Rate Effects on Mechanical Behavior of a PMMA

2007 ◽  
Vol 340-341 ◽  
pp. 1079-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Suo ◽  
Yu Long Li ◽  
Yuan Yong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Strain Range ◽  
Testing Temperature ◽  
Strain Rate Effects ◽  
Rate Effects ◽  
Increasing Temperature

In this paper, the mechanical behavior of a PMMA used as the windshield of aircraft was tested. The experiments were finished under two quasi-static strain rates and a high strain rate with the testing temperature from 299K to 373K. The results show that the mechanical property of this PMMA depends heavily on the testing temperature. The Young’s modulus and flow stress were found to decrease with increasing temperature at low strain rate. At the strain rate of 10-1 1/s, strain softening was observed under all experiment temperatures. At high strain rate, with the temperature increasing, the flow stress decreases remarkably while the failure strain increases, and the strain soften was also observed at the temperature above 333K. Comparing the experiments results at same temperature, it was found the flow stress increases with the rising strain rate. The predictions of the mechanical behavior using the ZWT theoretical model have a good agreement with experimental results in the strain range of 8%.

Research on Flow Stress of Magnesium Alloy Sheet under Warm and High Strain Rate Forming Condition

2011 ◽  
Vol 189-193 ◽  
pp. 2522-2525
Author(s):  
Zheng Hua Meng ◽  
Shang Yu Huang ◽  
Jian Hua Hu
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
Magnesium Alloy ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Process Simulation ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Alloy Sheet ◽  
Az31 Magnesium Alloy ◽  
Rate Condition ◽  
Magnesium Alloy Sheet

Process simulation is a powerful tool to predict material behaviors under specified deformation conditions, so as to optimize the processing parameters. The equation for flow stress is important to numerically analyze. However, the reported constitutive equations of magnesium alloy are only suitable for processing simulation with strain rate between 0.001-1s-1. In this paper, the strain-stress behavior of AZ31 under warm and high strain rate (>103s-1) condition has been investigated by split Hopkinson pressure bar experiments at elevated temperature. The results show that the influence of the temperature on flow stress is more obvious than that of strain rate; the flow stress decreases with the rise of temperature at a certain strain rate. Based on Johnson-Cook model, the constitutive equation of AZ31 magnesium alloy under warm and high strain rate condition has been given out by fitting the experimental data, which can be applied in process simulation of AZ31 magnesium alloy sheet forming.

Performance of 3-D Printed Thermoplastic Polyurethane Under Quasi-Static and High-Strain Rate Loading

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chaudhry ◽  
M. Al-Dojayli ◽  
A. Czekanski
Keyword(s):  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar ◽  
Kolsky Bar ◽  
Pulse Shaper ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Printing Direction ◽  
Printing Parameters

As 3-D printed materials are being embraced by the manufacturing industries, understanding the response mechanism to high strain rate events becomes a concern to meet requirements for a specific application. In order to improve the mechanical performance of a 3-D printed part, it is necessary to quantify the impact of various printing parameters on the mechanical properties. Initial studies have shown that a difference in 3-D printed material is expected due to the effect of manufacturing parameters such as anisotropy relating to printing direction, infill pattern, infill percentage, layer height and orientation of the part being printed. The main focus of the study is to characterize the effect of the previously mentioned printing parameters under quasi-static and high strain rate (100–1000 /s). In this strain rate regime, the most common apparatus used is the Split Hopkinson pressure bar (also known as Kolsky bar). It consists of a cylindrical metallic bar that has a striker, input and output bar. While the specimen is fixated between the input and output bar, the striker bar is accelerated and triggers the incident bar. As a result, an elastic wave is generated which travels towards the specimen/input bar interface, where some part of it is reflected and the rest is transmitted. The Kolsky bar is adjusted by using a hollow transmitter tube and pulse shaper. Due to an impedance mismatch between the samples and bar material, the amplitude of the transmitted pulse is low. Using a hollow transmitter bar increases this amplitude due to area mismatch between the specimen and tube. Using a pulse shaper between the striker and input bar, the rise time of the elastic compressive wave increases and assists in achieving a constant rate of loading. The compressive stress strain curves were obtained under high strain rates to determine the strain rate effect. To measure the response under static testing conditions, a commercial load frame was used. A comprehensive comparison of dynamic compressive response of samples was performed to characterize the effect of printing parameters.

scholarly journals FE Analysis of Critical Testing Parameters in Kolsky Bar Experiments for Elastomers at High Strain Rate

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 3817
Author(s):  
Chaudhry ◽  
Czekanski
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Pulse Shaping ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Kolsky Bar ◽  
Specimen Geometry ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Butadiene Rubber ◽  
Testing Apparatus

The main aim of this research is to present complete methodological guidelines for dynamic characterization of elastomers when subjected to strain rates of 100/s–10,000/s. We consider the following three aspects: (i) the design of high strain rate testing apparatus, (ii) finite element analysis for the optimization of the experimental setup, and (iii) experimental parameters and validation for the response of an elastomeric specimen. To test low impedance soft materials, design of a modified Kolsky bar is discussed. Based on this design, the testing apparatus was constructed, validated, and optimized numerically using finite element methods. Furthermore, investigations on traditional pulse shaping techniques and a new design for pulse shaper are described. The effect of specimen geometry on the homogeneous deformation has been thoroughly accounted for. Using the optimized specimen geometry and pulse shaping technique, nitrile butadiene rubber was tested at different strain rates, and the experimental findings were compared to numerical predictions.

scholarly journals High Strain Rate Behavior of Ultrafine Grained AA2519 Processed via Multi Axial Cryogenic Forging

Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Azimi ◽  
Gbadebo Moses Owolabi ◽  
Hamid Fallahdoost ◽  
Nikhil Kumar ◽  
Grant Warner
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Strain Curve ◽  
Thermal Softening ◽  
Stress Strain Curve ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Cryogenic Forging

The present work deals with studies on the dynamic behavior of ultrafine grained AA2519 alloy synthesized via cryogenic forging (CF) and room temperature forging (RTF) techniques. A split-Hopkinson pressure bar was used to perform high strain rate tests on the processed samples and the microstructures of the samples were characterized before and after impact tests. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) maps demonstrated a significant grain size refinement from ~740 nm to ~250 nm as a result of cryogenic plastic deformation showing higher dislocation densities and stored strains in the CF sample when compared to the RTF sample. This microstructure modification caused the increase of dynamic flow stress in this alloy. In addition, the aluminum matrix of the CF alloy is more densely populated with fragmented particles than the RTF alloy due to the heavier plastic deformation applied to the cryogenically forged alloy. The results obtained from the stress–strain curve for the RTF sample showed intense thermomechanical instabilities in the RTF sample which led to a severe thermal softening and the subsequent sharp drop in the flow stress. However, no significant decrease was observed in the stress–strain curve of the CF alloys with ultrafine grains which means that thermal softening would probably not be the most effective failure mechanism. Furthermore, higher level of sensitivity of CF alloys to strain rates was observed which is ascribed to transition of rate-controlling plastic deformation mechanisms. In the post-mortem microstructure investigation, deformed and transformed adiabatic shear bands (ASBs) were identified on the RTF alloy when the strain rate is over 4000 s−1 at which it had experienced a significant thermal softening. On the other hand, circular path and aligned split arcs are the various shapes of the deformed ASB seen at no earlier than 4500 s−1 in the CF alloys. This is associated with the crack failure caused by grain boundary sliding.

A Numerical Investigation into the Tensile Split Hopkinson Pressure Bars Test for Sheet Metals

2013 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 464-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Nam Pham ◽  
Hyo Seong Choi ◽  
Jong Bong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Finite Element Analyses ◽  
Compressive Flow ◽  
Design Guide ◽  
Split Hopkinson ◽  
Split Hopkinson Pressure Bars

Determination of theflow stress of materials at high strain rate is very important in automotive and military areas.The compressive flow stress at high strain rate can be obtained relativelyexactly by SHPB(Split Hopkinson Pressure Bars) tests. However, it is difficult to determinethe flow stressexactlyin the tensile state by using the SHPB tests. The difficulty in the tensile SHPB tests is how to fix a specimen on two bars. So, the design of a specimen and holders is needed to obtain more accurate measurement of the flow stress. In this study, the accuracy of the tensile SHPB tests results was numerically investigated. Finite element analyses of the tensile SHPB were carried out for various cases of fixing bolt location and bolting force. From the analysis results, a design guide for the fixing structure was obtained and the causes of error were investigated.

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