A Study on a Semimicroscopic Formulation of Inelastic Constitutive Equations of Polycrystalline Metals Subjected to a Large Deformation

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tokuda ◽  
K. Yamada ◽  
F. Havlicek

Work-hardening mechanisms of a polycrystalline metal significant in a large deformation range are different from those in a small strain range. That is, a texture development and an effect of grain shape change may be typical and important mechanisms in the large deformation process. In this paper, a set of inelastic constitutive equations incorporating two effects are derived theoretically on the basis of crystal plasticity.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 8631
Author(s):  
Jan Kober ◽  
Alena Kruisova ◽  
Marco Scalerandi

Elastic slow dynamics, consisting in a reversible softening of materials when an external strain is applied, was experimentally observed in polycrystalline metals and presents analogies with the same phenomenon more widely observed in consolidated granular media. Since the effect is extremely small in metals, precise experimental techniques are needed. Reliable measurement of relative velocity variations of the order of 10−7 is crucial to perform the analysis. In addition, the grain structure and the nature of grain boundaries in metals is very different from that in rocks or concrete. Therefore, linking relaxation elastic effects to the microstructure is needed to understand the physical origin of slow dynamics in metals. Here, interpreting the relaxation phenomenon as a multirelaxation process, we show that it is sensitive to the spatial scale at the microstructural level, up to the point of allowing the identification of the existence of features at different spatial scales, particularly distinguishing damage from microstructural inhomogeneities.


2010 ◽  
Vol 439-440 ◽  
pp. 838-841
Author(s):  
Jun Zhan ◽  
Gui Min Chen ◽  
Xiao Fang Liu ◽  
Qing Jie Liu ◽  
Qian Zhang

Gyroscope is the core of an inertia system and made by machining process. Machining process imports large residual stress. The residual stress will be released and induces large deformation of gyroscope frame. In this paper, the effects of residual stress on deformation of gyroscope frame were simulated by finite element method. Different stress distribution leads different deformation. Compressive stress can make sample long and tensile stress make sample short. The stress released in deformation process which reduced about 90%.


Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1127
Author(s):  
Emil Soból ◽  
Katarzyna Gabryś ◽  
Karina Zabłocka ◽  
Raimondas Šadzevičius ◽  
Rytis Skominas ◽  
...  

The shear modulus and normalized shear modulus degradation curve are the fundamental parameters describing soil behavior. Thus, this article is focused on the stiffness characteristic of 15 different Warsaw cohesive soli represented by the parameters mentioned above. In this research, standard resonant column tests were performed in a wide shear strain range, from a small one, where soil behaves like an elastic medium, to a medium one, where soil has an unrecoverable deformation. Collected data allows the authors to create empirical models describing stiffness characteristics with high reliability. The maximum shear modulus calculated by the proposed equation for Warsaw cohesive soil had a relative error of about 6.8%. The formula for normalized shear modulus estimated G/GMAX with 2.2% relative error. Combined empirical models for GMAX, and G/GMAX allow the evaluation of Warsaw cohesive soil’s shear modulus value in a wide shear deformation range, with a very low value of the relative error of 6.7%.


Author(s):  
W. B. Gookin ◽  
M. F. Riemer ◽  
R. W. Boulanger ◽  
J. D. Bray

A cyclic triaxial testing system capable of measuring very small to large strain properties on a single specimen has been developed by combining a wide variety of existing instrumentation, including piezoceramic bender elements, internal displacement measurement devices (both contact and noncontact), local displacement measurement devices, a sensitive internal load cell, and an external load cell. The bender elements provide information on soil properties in the nearly linear elastic (very small strain) range. Local and noncontact internal displacement measurements provide information about small strain range properties, whereas more traditional internal displacement measurements provide information in the small to large strain range. In addition, this apparatus can be used over a wide range of loading frequencies to investigate the effect of frequency on dynamic soil properties. By combining this equipment in a single testing system, a number of tests may be run on one specimen, eliminating the effects of variability. The broad variety of displacement measuring instruments also allows direct comparisons of these techniques on a single specimen.


Author(s):  
Qiang Xie ◽  
Yuxia Hu ◽  
Mark J. Cassidy

Abstract Cone penetration test (CPT) is regularly used during offshore site investigations to interpret soil stratification and soil characteristics due to its continuous penetration resistance profile. However, its use could be improved if better numerical methods to simulate its penetration could be developed. Finite element (FE) analysis, for instance, has the potential to provide insightful information on soil response and soil flow mechanisms. However, it is challenging to simulate CPT in layered soils, as the soil experiences extremely large strains around the cone and the simulation costs are high. In this study, the efficiency of using a partial large deformation FE (LDFE) approach was explored to examine the pre-embedment depth allowed for saving LDFE analysis cost. The LDFE analysis was conducted using the remeshing and interpolation technical with small strain (RITSS) method to model the large strain problem. Both soft-stiff-soft clays and clay-sand-clay soil were considered to study the thin stiff layer effect when it was sandwiched in soft clay. The LDFE/RITSS analysis compared a CPT penetrating from the soil surface with penetrations from a pre-embedded depth above the stiff layer. Pre-embedded small strain analysis was also conducted for comparison. The results show that the small strain analysis underestimated the resistance in both clay and sand. For the partial LDFE analysis with pre-embedment in the top clay layer, the CPT response in the middle stiff clay layer could be well captured regardless of the initial pre-embedment depth. However, for the middle medium dense sand layer (ID = 60%), the pre-embedment depth needs to have sufficient distance above it (10D, D is cone diameter) to capture the soil response in the sand layer correctly.


Author(s):  
Keiji Kubushiro ◽  
Hiroki Yoshizawa ◽  
Takuya Itou ◽  
Hirokatsu Nakagawa

Creep-fatigue properties of candidate materials of 700°C-USC boiler are investigated. The candidate materials are Alloy 230, Alloy 263, Alloy 617 and HR6W. Creep-fatigue tests were conducted at 700°C and the effect of both strain range and hold time were studied. Experimental results showed that at 1.0% strain range, cycles to failure with 60 min strain holding is about 10% of that without strain holding, but at 0.7% strain range, cycles to failure with 60 min strain holding decreases down to about 1% of without strain holding. It appears that cycles to failure is decreased by increasing strain holding time at all tested strain ranges, and the effect of holding time is emphasized at small strain range. These phenomena depend on the kind of alloys.


2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 1582-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiro Kameda ◽  
Bao Rong Zhang

In order to study the characteristics of fine grained polycrystalline metals, it is important to recognize the function of grain boundaries (GB), crystal defects such as dislocation and/or nanoscale voids, since the fraction of GB increases as grain sizes decreases, the deformation process of these metals could be different from those in larger size grains. In this study, we first evaluate the hypothesis that GB behaves as dislocation source and sink during the deformation of fine grained metal, then compare the behavior between GB and a tiny defect from the view point of dislocation source and sink phenomena. Since continuous dislocation supplies could be considered as the key issue to improve the toughness of fine grained metals, this concept could be helpful to design next generation polycrystalline metals.


2008 ◽  
Vol 13-14 ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.C. Tasan ◽  
J.P.M. Hoefnagels ◽  
L.C.N. Louws ◽  
M.G.D. Geers

The introduction of advanced high strength steels, e.g., into the automotive industry initiated a huge interest in analyzing and understanding ductile fracture of sheet metals to greater details. This demands for the development of experimental methodologies that provide microvoid evolution parameters, which also serve as crucial input parameters for advanced forming simulation that can predict damage evolution. Therefore, this work scrutinizes the reliability and applicability of an increasingly popular damage characterization methodology, in which microindentation tests are carried out to measure hardness and elastic modulus degradation as a function of accumulated strain, relating this degradation to damage evolution. To accomplish this goal, this methodology is applied to several different sheet metals of different formability (an interstitial-free steel, a dual phase steel, an aluminum-magnesium-silicon alloy and a ferritic stainless steel). To analyze and verify the results of indentation based methodology, damage evolution in these metals is monitored also via different experimental techniques, i.e. scanning electron microscopy, micro-ct tomography and sensitive density measurement. Moreover, finite element simulations are carried out to understand the effect of void accumulation in the degradation of hardness and elastic modulus. In the case of using the hardness as a damage probe, the degradation due to damage is always coupled to other effects (strain hardening, grain shape change, texture development) causing an increase in the obtained hardness value for all of the sheet metals tested, thereby complete obscuring any degradation of the hardness due to damage. In the case of elastic modulus, all the sheet metals tend to pile-up upon indentation when they are severely deformed, leading to large systematic errors in the Oliver-Pharr methodology based modulus determination, whereas the elastic modulus is also intrinsically altered by the grain shape change and texture development seen for increasing deformation. Therefore, it can only be concluded that, contrary to the published results in the literature, neither the hardness degradation nor the elastic modulus degradation can be used as a precise probe for damage accumulation, at least when the indentation based methodology is carried out in the originally-proposed manner that is commonly used in the literature.


Author(s):  
Yukio Takahashi ◽  
Bilal Dogan ◽  
David Gandy

Failure under creep-fatigue interaction is receiving increasing interest due to an increased number of start-up and shut-down in fossil power generation plants as well as development of newer nuclear power plants employing low-pressure coolant. These situations have promoted the development of various approaches for evaluating its significance. However, most of them are fragment and rather limited in terms of materials and test conditions they covered. Therefore applicability of the proposed approaches to different materials or even different temperatures is uncertain in many cases. The present work was conducted in order to evaluate and compare the representative approaches used in the prediction of failure life under creep-fatigue conditions as well as their modifications, by systematically applying them to available test data on a wide range of materials which have been used or are planned to be used in various types of power generation plants. The following observations have been made from this exercise. (i) Time fraction model has a tendency to be unconservative in general, especially at low temperature and small strain range. Because of the large scatter of the total damage, this shortcoming would be difficult to cover by the consideration of creep-fatigue interaction in a fixed manner. (ii) Classical ductility exhaustion model showed a common tendency to be overly conservative in many situations, especially at small strain ranges. (iii) The modified ductility exhaustion model based on the re-definition of creep damage showed improved predictability with a slightly unconservative tendency. (iv) Energy-based ductility exhaustion model developed in this study seems to show the best predictability among the four procedures in an overall sense although some dependency on strain range and materials was observed.


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