scholarly journals Microstructure Based Failure Criterion For Ductile Materials

2018 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Saryu Fensin ◽  
George Gray ◽  
Neil Bourne ◽  
Robert Hixson
Keyword(s):  
Failure Process ◽  
Spall Strength ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
Material Microstructure ◽  
Shock State ◽  
Ductile Metals ◽  
Damage Area ◽  
Ductile Materials ◽  
Damage And Failure ◽  
Photon Doppler Velocimetry

For ductile metals, the process of dynamic fracture occurs through nucleation, growth and coalescence of voids. The stress required to nucleate these voids is inferred from the velocimetry data (using the acoustic approach) and termed as the spall strength. This is a key parameter that is used to evaluate a material’s susceptibility to damage and failure. However, it is also well recognized that the dynamic parameters used to generate the shock state such as pulse duration, tensile strain-rate and peak stress coupled with material microstructure itself affect the material response in a complex manner. Yet, it is impossible to capture all this information by assessing only the spall strength measured from simple one-dimensional Photon Doppler Velocimetry measurements. Although, there exist widely used corrections proposed by Kanel et. al. that allow for the inclusion of some of these complexities into the measured spall strength but still does not take the microstructure into account. In this work, we propose another scheme for normalization of spall strength with a damage area to capture the complexities included in the damage and failure process especially pertaining to microstructure. We will also demonstrate the application of this scheme by applying to examples of materials such as Copper, Copper-24 wt%Ag, Copper-15 wt% Nb and additively manufactured 316L SS.

scholarly journals Damage Evolution and Failure Behavior of Post-Mainshock Damaged Rocks under Aftershock Effects

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 4429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zilong Zhou ◽  
Haiquan Wang ◽  
Xin Cai ◽  
Lu Chen ◽  
Yude E ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Failure Process ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
B Value ◽  
P Wave ◽  
Dissipated Energy ◽  
Failure Behavior ◽  
Damage And Failure ◽  
Rock Stability ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Initial Cycle

Rock stability has long been a hot topic during underground energy exploitation, but the failure process of rock materials under earthquake effects is extremely complicated, and the failure mechanism still remains unclear. In order to investigate the fatigue damage and failure behavior of rocks under aftershock effects considering the post-mainshock damage states, a series of laboratory tests were conducted on marble specimens subjected to stepwise cyclic loading. Four levels of peak stress (i.e., 10, 30, 50, and 70 MPa) were applied in the first cycle, to simulate mainshock damage. The results indicate that, with the increase of initial cycle amplitude, mainshock damage has a significant effect on deformation behavior, dissipated energy, P-wave velocity, and AE characteristics of tested specimens during aftershock process. The increasing amplitude of initial cycle enhances irreversible deformation and weakens the resistance to deformation, which accelerates the expansion of specimen volume and results in the reduction of bearing capacity. Furthermore, the increasing amplitude of initial cycle obviously changes the failure morphologies and intensifies the final macro-fracture scale of tested specimens, which are verified by acoustic emission AF-RA value and b-value, respectively.

Damage Observation and Analysis of a Rock Brazilian Disc Using High-Speed DIC Method

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao Peng Ma ◽  
Dong Yan ◽  
Xian Wang ◽  
Yan Yan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Strain Field ◽  
Damage Evolution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Tensile Load ◽  
Brazilian Test ◽  
Elastic Model ◽  
Strain Fields ◽  
Brazilian Disc ◽  
Damage And Failure

Observation of damage evolution is of great importance to the understanding of the failure process of rock materials. High-speed DIC system is constructed and used to observe the strain field evolution of the granodiorite disc in Brazilian test. The strain fields at different load levels are analyzed based on the stain abnormality indicator (SAI) which is the ratio of the strain measured in experiment to the strain from theoretical solution in an isotropy and elastic model. SAI could be used to indicate the damage in the specimen. The process of damage and failure of the specimen in Brazilian disc test is quantitatively analyzed and deeply discussed according to the strain fields and the statistics of SAI. Experimental results in this paper show that the failure process of the disc specimen in Brazilian test is not simple crack propagation under tensile load, but a complicated damage evolution procedure.

A Statistical Damage Mechanics Model for Subsurface Initiated Spalling in Rolling Contacts

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihar Raje ◽  
Farshid Sadeghi ◽  
Richard G. Rateick
Keyword(s):  
Weibull Distribution ◽  
Damage Mechanics ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Contact Fatigue ◽  
Rolling Contact ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Material Microstructure ◽  
Rolling Element ◽  
Microcrack Initiation ◽  
Cyclic Damage

Fatigue lives of rolling element bearings exhibit a wide scatter due to the statistical nature of the rolling contact fatigue failure process. Empirical life models that account for this dispersion do not provide insights into the physical mechanisms that lead to this scatter. One of the primary reasons for dispersion in lives is the stochastic nature of the bearing material. Here, a damage mechanics based fatigue model is introduced in conjunction with the idea of discrete material representation that takes the effect of material microstructure explicitly into account. Two sources of material randomness are considered: (1) the topological randomness due to geometric variability in the material microstructure and (2) the material property randomness due to nonuniform distribution of properties throughout the material. The effect of these variations on the subsurface stress fields in rolling element line contacts is studied. The damage model, which incorporates cyclic damage accumulation and progressive degradation of material properties with rolling contact cycling, is used to study the mechanisms of subsurface initiated spalling in bearing contacts. Crack initiation as well as propagation stages are modeled using damaged material zones in a unified framework. The spalling phenomenon is found to occur through microcrack initiation below the surface where multiple microcracks coalesce and subsequent cracks propagate to the surface. The computed crack trajectories and spall profiles are found to be consistent with experimental observations. The microcrack initiation phase is found to be only a small fraction of the total spalling life and the scatter in total life is primarily governed by the scatter in the propagation phase of the cracks through the microstructure. Spalling lives are found to follow a three-parameter Weibull distribution more closely compared to the conventionally used two-parameter Weibull distribution. The Weibull slopes obtained are within experimentally observed values for bearing steels. Spalling lives are found to follow an inverse power law relationship with respect to the contact pressure with a stress-life exponent of 9.35.

Investigation into the Spall Strength of Cast Iron

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Gifford Plume ◽  
Carl-Ernst Rousseau
Keyword(s):  
Cast Iron ◽  
Spall Strength ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Spall Fracture ◽  
Gas Gun ◽  
Minimum Stress ◽  
Impact Experiments ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Spall Failure

Abstract The spall strength of cast iron has been investigated by means of planar plate impact experiments conducted in a vacuum. A single stage gas gun was utilized to drive projectiles to velocities between 100 and 300 m/sec, resulting in low to moderate shock loading of the cast iron specimens. Measurement of the stress histories were made with the use of commercial manganin stress gauges that were imbedded between the back face of the cast iron specimen and a low impedance backing of polycarbonate. Spall strength values were calculated utilizing the measured peak stress and minimum stress pullback signals captured in the stress history. Spall Strength values were found to vary between 0.98 and 1.45 GPa for the cast iron tested. Post-Mortem analysis of recovered specimen has provided insight into the evolution of spall failure in cast iron and shed light on the varying nature of the spall strength values calculated. It was determined that the lower bound of strength values was associated with small scale micro-failure, while the upper bound values corresponded to complete spall fracture.

scholarly journals Resistivity and AE Response Characteristics in the Failure Process of CGB under Uniaxial Loading

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingye Qi ◽  
Guorui Feng
Keyword(s):  
Failure Process ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
Uniaxial Loading ◽  
Energy Curve ◽  
Cumulative Energy ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Linear Slope ◽  
The Stability

To understand the characteristics of the acoustic emission (AE) and electrical resistivity of cemented coal gangue backfill (CGB) under uniaxial compression, the variations in these characteristics at 1 day, 3 days, and 7 days are analyzed by means of a stress-strain-resistivity-AE test, and the microperformances are investigated. The research results indicate that the AE can reflect the initiation and propagation of cracks and later explain the variation of the resistivity of the specimens under the uniaxial loading. The cumulative energy curve of AE is approximately two straight lines corresponding to the peak stress, and the difference in the linear slope gradually decreased with the increasing curing time due to the lower pore solution content and the compact pore structure. The relationships between the stress and resistivity and the loading condition before and after the peak stress at different curing times were established. Therefore, it is of great significance to predict the stability of the filling body by monitoring the AE and resistivity variations of the filling body. In addition, it is possible to calculate the roof stress using the relation equation between the resistivity and stress.

Investigation into the Spall Strength of Cast Iron

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gifford Plume ◽  
Carl-Ernst Rousseau
Keyword(s):  
Cast Iron ◽  
Spall Strength ◽  
Peak Stress ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Spall Fracture ◽  
Gas Gun ◽  
Minimum Stress ◽  
Impact Experiments ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Spall Failure

AbstractThe spall strength of cast iron has been investigated by means of planar plate impact experiments conducted in a vacuum. A single stage gas gun was utilized to drive projectiles to velocities between 100 and 300 m/sec, resulting in low to moderate shock loading of the cast iron specimens. Measurement of the stress histories were made with the use of commercial manganin stress gauges that were imbedded between the back face of the cast iron specimen and a low impedance backing of polycarbonate. Spall strength values were calculated utilizing the measured peak stress and minimum stress pullback signals captured in the stress history. Spall Strength values were found to vary between 0.98 and 1.45 GPa for the cast iron tested. Post-Mortem analysis of recovered specimen has provided insight into the evolution of spall failure in cast iron and shed light on the varying nature of the spall strength values calculated. It was determined that the lower bound of strength values was associated with small scale micro-failure, while the upper bound values corresponded to complete spall fracture.

Investigation on the Load Capacity and Failure Process of T-Joint by Experiments and Numerical Method

2011 ◽  
Vol 328-330 ◽  
pp. 1317-1321
Author(s):  
Ping Hu ◽  
Qi Shao ◽  
Qian Nie ◽  
Wei Dong Li
Keyword(s):  
Cohesive Zone ◽  
Cohesive Zone Model ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Adhesive Layer ◽  
Zone Model ◽  
T Joints ◽  
Damage And Failure ◽  
Automotive Structures ◽  
In The Beginning

Adhesive bonded T-joint is commonly applied in the manufacture of automotive structures. The objective of this work is the analysis of the load capacity of the adhesive-bonded T-joints under tension load and the influence causing by some parameters of adherend on the damage of T-joint. Thus, a series of tests were carried out and the balanced joint and the imbalanced joint concepts were proposed to illustrate the influence. And the results show that the imbalanced joints suffered greater stress concentration than the balanced one. Furthermore, by increasing the stiffness of adherends , one can increase the load capacity of a balanced joint. Meanwhile, in order to simulate the damage and failure processes in this type of joint, the cohesive zone model (CZM) based analysis was carried out using finite element method in ABAQUS. One can observed that only the upper end of adhesive layer transmits the load in the beginning.

Numerical Simulation of Gun Bore Damage during Engraving Process of Driving Band

2017 ◽  
Vol 1142 ◽  
pp. 363-366
Author(s):  
He Yang Sun ◽  
Chang Zhi Jia ◽  
Yao Xin He ◽  
Tian Xiao Cui
Keyword(s):  
Damage Mechanics ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Damage Model ◽  
Firing Process ◽  
Computation Method ◽  
Damage Behavior ◽  
Damage And Failure ◽  
Gun Barrel ◽  
Safety Design ◽  
Microscopic Damage

A Damage mechanics finite element numerical computation method was established based on HLC microscopic damage model to solve the problem of damage, crack initialization and growth inside bore during the firing process. The damage and failure process of the bore surface was simulated numerically during multiple rounds of firing. The law of the barrel material performance changing with the number of firing rounds was analyzed during the engraving process of the driving band and compared with the experimental results. It is proved that HLC microscopic damage model can show the complicate damage behavior and predict the cracking defect, which provides a reference for safety design of the gun barrel.

Nonlinear Dynamic Finite Analysis of BFRP-Strengthened Masonry Structure Based on ABAQUS

2014 ◽  
Vol 936 ◽  
pp. 1331-1335
Author(s):  
Zhen Lei ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Jun Tong Qu
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamic ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Dynamical Analysis ◽  
Base Shear ◽  
Confined Masonry ◽  
Damage And Failure ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Concrete Damage ◽  
Strengthening Technique

The externally bonded FRP is an effective strengthening technique, which is mainly verified through laboratory tests. In this paper, numerical analysis models were established in ABAQUS respectively based on an experimental scaled three-story confined masonry structures before and after strengthened with BFRP. Then dynamical analysis considering material nonlinearity, geometric nonlinearity and contact nonlinearity was carried out on these two models. Here, representative volume element method was used to simplify the simulation of masonry. Besides, concrete damage plasticity model was adopted to simulate the structural damage and failure process. The reliability and accuracy of nonlinear dynamic finite analysis were validated by comparing the numerical simulation results and experimental results in terms of dynamic property, displacement and acceleration response and the maximum base shear.

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