On the Extraction of Elastic–Plastic Constitutive Properties From Three-Dimensional Deformation Measurements

2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Gross ◽  
K. Ravi-Chandar

In this article, a coupled experimental and numerical method is utilized for characterizing the elastic–plastic constitutive properties of ductile materials. Three-dimensional digital image correlation (DIC) is used to measure the full field deformation on two mutually orthogonal surfaces of a uniaxial tensile test specimen. The material’s constitutive model, whose parameters are unknown a priori, is determined through an optimization process that compares these experimental measurements with finite element simulations in which the constitutive model is implemented. The optimization procedure utilizes the robust dataset of locally observed deformation measurements from DIC in addition to the standard measurements of boundary load and displacement data. When the difference between the experiment and simulations is reduced sufficiently, a set of parameters is found for the material model that is suitable to large strain levels. This method of material characterization is applied to a tensile specimen fabricated from a sheet of 15-5 PH stainless steel. This method proves to be a powerful tool for calibration of material models. The final parameters produce a simulation that tracks the local experimental displacement field to within a couple percent of error. Simultaneously, the percent error in the simulation for the load carried by the specimen throughout the test is less than 1%. Additionally, half of the parameters for Hill’s yield criterion, describing anisotropy of the normal stresses, are found from a single tensile test. This method will find even greater utility in calibrating more complex material models by greatly reducing the experimental effort required to identify the appropriate model parameters.

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinfeng Ning ◽  
Shaowen Xu ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Susan M. Lessner ◽  
Michael A. Sutton ◽  
...  

A series of pressurization and tensile loading experiments on mouse carotid arteries is performed with deformation measurements acquired during each experiment using three-dimensional digital image correlation. Using a combination of finite element analysis and a microstructure-based constitutive model to describe the response of biological tissue, the measured surface strains during pressurization, and the average axial strains during tensile loading, an inverse procedure is used to identify the optimal constitutive parameters for the mouse carotid artery. The results demonstrate that surface strain measurements can be combined with computational methods to identify material properties in a vascular tissue. Additional computational studies using the optimal material parameters for the mouse carotid artery are discussed with emphasis on the significance of the qualitative trends observed.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Rongchuang Chen ◽  
Shiyang Zhang ◽  
Xianlong Liu ◽  
Fei Feng

To investigate the effect of hot working parameters on the flow behavior of 300M steel under tension, hot uniaxial tensile tests were implemented under different temperatures (950 °C, 1000 °C, 1050 °C, 1100 °C, 1150 °C) and strain rates (0.01 s−1, 0.1 s−1, 1 s−1, 10 s−1). Compared with uniaxial compression, the tensile flow stress was 29.1% higher because dynamic recrystallization softening was less sufficient in the tensile stress state. The ultimate elongation of 300M steel increased with the decrease of temperature and the increase of strain rate. To eliminate the influence of sample necking on stress-strain relationship, both the stress and the strain were calibrated using the cross-sectional area of the neck zone. A constitutive model for tensile deformation was established based on the modified Arrhenius model, in which the model parameters (n, α, Q, ln(A)) were described as a function of strain. The average deviation was 6.81 MPa (6.23%), showing good accuracy of the constitutive model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 660-677
Author(s):  
Norwahida Yusoff ◽  
Feizal Yusof

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the characteristics of elastic-plastic deformation and stress fields at the intersection of a crack front and the free surface of a three-dimensional body, referred to as corner fields. Design/methodology/approach The structures of elastic-plastic corner deformation field were assessed experimentally by looking at the corner border displacement and strain fields on the surface of a compact tension (CT) specimen using digital image correlation method. For assessment and verification purposes, the results were compared with the fields predicted through finite element analysis. The latter method was used further to assess the corner stress field. Findings The characteristics of displacement, strain and stress fields in the vicinity of a corner vertex in a finite geometry CT specimen in a strain hardening condition are independent of load and geometry. One of the distinctive features that becomes evident in this study is that the stress state at the corner vertex at θ=0° is a simple uniaxial tension. Originality/value This paper provides some insights on the structure of elastic-plastic corner fields that could optimistically be served as a fundamental framework towards the development of analytical solutions for elastic-plastic corner fields.


Author(s):  
Lidong Wang ◽  
Xiongqi Peng ◽  
Mingrui Liu

The basic mechanical properties of a diaphragm under various temperatures in hot diaphragm preforming of composites are obtained by uniaxial tensile tests. A constitutive model considering the influence of temperature is accordingly developed to characterize its large deformation behavior. Model parameters are obtained by nonlinear fitting experiment data. The constitutive model is implemented in ABAQUS through the user material subroutine UHYPER. The developed constitutive model is verified by simulating the covering deformation of the diaphragm over a C-type mold. Finally, as an application of the developed hyperelastic model, an optimal design of a support bar in the hot diaphragm preforming process is implemented. The constitutive model lays a solid foundation for the finite element simulation and process optimization of the hot diaphragm forming (HDF) of carbon composites.


Author(s):  
Stijn Hertelé ◽  
Timothy Galle ◽  
Koen Van Minnebruggen ◽  
Wim De Waele ◽  
Otto Jan Huising

Standard pipe corrosion assessments are based on simplifying assumptions with respect to corrosion geometry and focus on pressure based loading. Moreover, when corrosion patches traverse girth welds, validity criteria to their assessment become impractically vague. The integrity of girth welds is additionally influenced by axial stresses, which may act in combination with hoop stress resulting from pressure. In an attempt to address these issues, the authors conducted a detailed assessment on a significant, highly irregular corrosion patch traversing a 12″ natural gas pipeline girth weld. The investigation comprises a full scale uniaxial tensile test and supporting detailed finite element (FE) analyses. Hereby, the model mesh adopts detailed geometrical characteristics resulting from a surface profile scan obtained from stereoscopic digital image correlation. The numerical model is validated based on the uniaxial tensile test, in the sense that plastic collapse and highly complex strain distributions are successfully reproduced. Finally, the FE model is used to explore axial tensile failure in presence of internal pressure.


Author(s):  
Junfu Chen ◽  
Zhiping Guan ◽  
Changhai Yang

In this study, an inverse method with the integration of finite element simulation and optimization algorithms is proposed to determine the flow curve of cylindrical specimen characterized by the modified Voce hardening model. The tensile test is repetitiously simulated with different combinations of model parameters designed through Latin hypercube design method, where the baseline values and variation ranges of model parameters are identified through Leroy–Bridgman method, obtaining different simulated load–displacement curves. The corresponding response is defined as the sum of the absolute area difference between the simulated load–displacement curves and the experimental one. The relationship between the model parameters and the response is established through response surface methodology and the optimal parameters combination in the modified Voce model is then determined through nonlinear programming by quadratic Lagrangian. In the case of uniaxial tensile test of mild steel Q345, the inversely identified flow curve is validated by numerically reproducing the experimental load–displacement curve and necking profile. The results indicate that the proposed inverse method is capable of evaluating the flow curve in large range of strains for cylindrical specimen accurately.


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 335-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIANYONG HUANG ◽  
XIAOCHANG PAN ◽  
SHANSHAN LI ◽  
XIAOLING PENG ◽  
CHUNYANG XIONG ◽  
...  

This paper develops a set of digital volume correlation (DVC) algorithms to address 3-D deformation measurements of soft gels with the aid of laser-scanning confocal microscopy. As an extension of the well-developed digital image correlation (DIC) method, the present DVC approach adopts a three-dimensional zero-normalized cross-correlation criterion (3-D ZNCC) to perform volume correlation calculations. Based on a 3-D sum-table scheme and the fast Fourier transform technique, a fast algorithm is first proposed to accelerate the integer-voxel correlation computations. Subsequently, two kinds of sub-voxel registration algorithms, i.e., 3-D gradient-based algorithm and 3-D Newton–Raphson algorithm, are presented to obtain the sub-voxel displacement and strain fields of volume images before and after deformation. Both a series of computer-simulated digital volume images and an actual agarose gel sample randomly embedded with fluorescent particles are employed to verify the 3-D deformation measurement capability of the proposed DVC algorithms, which indicates that they are competent to acquire 3-D displacement and strain fields of soft gels.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Kolkailah ◽  
A. J. McPhate

In this paper, results from an elastic-plastic finite-element model incorporating the Bodner-Partom model of nonlinear time-dependent material behavior are presented. The parameters in the constitutive model are computed from a leastsquare fit to experimental data obtained from uniaxial stress-strain and creep tests at 650°C. The finite element model of a double-notched specimen is employed to determine the value of the elastic-plastic strain and is compared to experimental data. The constitutive model parameters evaluated in this paper are found to be in good agreement with those obtained by the other investigators. However, the parameters determined by the numerical technique tend to give response that agree with the data better than do graphically determined parameters previously used. The calculated elastic-plastic strain from the model agreed well with the experimental strain.


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