Effect of Core Plasticity on the Post-Buckling Behavior of Debonded Sandwich Beams

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhavani V. Sankar ◽  
Manickam Narayanan ◽  
Abhinav Sharma

Abstract Nonlinear finite element analysis was used to simulate compression tests on sandwich composites containing debonded face sheets. The core was modeled as an elastic-perfectly-plastic material, and the face-sheet as elastic isotropic. The effects of core plasticity, face-sheet and core thickness, and debond length on the maximum load the beam can carry were studied. The results indicate that the core plasticity is an important factor that determines the maximum load.

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Lees ◽  
J. Clausen

Conventional methods of characterizing the mechanical properties of soil and geogrid separately are not suited to multi-axial stabilizing geogrid that depends critically on the interaction between soil particles and geogrid. This has been overcome by testing the soil and geogrid product together as one composite material in large specimen triaxial compression tests and fitting a nonlinear failure envelope to the peak failure states. As such, the performance of stabilizing, multi-axial geogrid can be characterized in a measurable way. The failure envelope was adopted in a linear elastic – perfectly plastic constitutive model and implemented into finite element analysis, incorporating a linear variation of enhanced strength with distance from the geogrid plane. This was shown to produce reasonably accurate simulations of triaxial compression tests of both stabilized and nonstabilized specimens at all the confining stresses tested with one set of input parameters for the failure envelope and its variation with distance from the geogrid plane.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kulkarni ◽  
C. A. Rubin ◽  
G. T. Hahn

The present paper, describes a transient translating elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical finite element model to study 2-D frictional rolling contact. Frictional two-dimensional contact is simulated by repeatedly translating a non-uniform thermo-mechanical distribution across the surface of an elasto-plastic half space. The half space is represented by a two dimensional finite element mesh with appropriate boundaries. Calculations are for an elastic-perfectly plastic material and the selected thermo-physical properties are assumed to be temperature independent. The paper presents temperature variations, stress and plastic strain distributions and deformations. Residual tensile stresses are observed. The magnitude and depth of these stresses depends on 1) the temperature gradients and 2) the magnitudes of the normal and tangential tractions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
David J. Unger

AbstractA finite element analysis indicates a good correlation between the Dugdale plastic strip model and a linear elastic/perfectly plastic material under plane stress loading conditions for a flow theory of plasticity based on the Tresca yield condition. A similar analysis under the von Mises yield condition reveals no plastic strip formation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Mahmood ◽  
R. Adibi-Asl ◽  
C. G. Daley

Simplified limit analysis techniques have already been employed for limit load estimation on the basis of linear elastic finite element analysis (FEA) assuming elastic-perfectly-plastic material model. Due to strain hardening, a component or a structure can store supplementary strain energy and hence carries additional load. In this paper, an iterative elastic modulus adjustment scheme is developed in context of strain hardening material model utilizing the “strain energy density” theory. The proposed algorithm is then programmed into repeated elastic FEA and results from the numerical examples are compared with inelastic FEA results.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3A) ◽  
pp. 426-439
Author(s):  
Saad A. Al-Taan ◽  
Ayad A. Abdul-Razzak

This paper presents a study on the behavior of fiber reinforced concrete slabsusing finite element analysis. A previously published finite element program is used for the nonlinear analysis by including the steel fiber concrete properties. Concrete is represented by degenerated quadratic thick shell element, which is the general shear deformable eight node serendipity element, and the thickness is divided into layers. An elastic perfectly plastic and strain hardening plasticity approach are used to model the compression behavior of concrete.The reinforcing bars were smeared within the concrete layers and assumed as either an elastic perfectly plastic material or as an elastic-plastic material with linear strain hardening. Cracks initiation is predicted using a tensile strength criterion. The tension stiffening effect of the steel fibers is simulated using a descending parabolic stress degradation function, which is based on the fracture energy concept. The effect of cracking in reducing the shear modulus and the compressive strength of concrete parallel to the crack direction is considered. The numerical results showedgood agreement with published experimental results for two fibrous reinforced concrete slabs.


2008 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nor Eddine Laghzale ◽  
Abdel-Hakim Bouzid

The loss of the initial tightness during service is one of the major causes of failure of tube-to-tubesheet joints. The initial residual contact pressure and its variation during the lifetime of the joint are among the parameters to blame. A reliable assessment of the initial contact pressure value requires accurate and rigorous modeling of the elastoplastic behavior of the tube and the tubesheet during the expansion process. This paper deals with the development of a new analytical model used to accurately predict the residual contact pressure resulting from a hydraulic expansion process. The analytical model is based on the elastic perfectly plastic material behavior of the tube and the tubesheet and the interaction between these two elements of the expanded joint. The model results have been compared and validated with those of the more accurate finite element analysis models. Additional comparisons have been made with existing methods.


1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Castrenze Polizzotto

For a structure of elastic perfectly plastic material subjected to a given cyclic (mechanical and/or kinematical) load and to a steady (mechanical) load, the conditions are established in which plastic shakedown cannot occur whatever the steady load, and thus the structure is safe against the alternating plasticity collapse. Static and kinematic theorems, analogous to those of classical shakedown theory, are presented.


2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Budden ◽  
Y Lei

Limit loads for a thick-walled cylinder with an internal or external fully circumferential surface crack under pure axial load are derived on the basis of the von Mises yield criterion. The solutions reproduce the existing thin-walled solution when the ratio between the cylinder wall thickness and the inside radius tends to zero. The solutions are compared with published finite element limit load results for an elastic–perfectly plastic material. The comparison shows that the theoretical solutions are conservative and very close to the finite element data.


1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Paul C. Xirouchakis

The solution is presented for an infinite elastic-softening floating beam under a point load. The response depends on two nondimensional parameters: the negative stiffness coefficient that characterizes the descending part of the moment-curvature curve, and the nondimensional softening region half-length. The solution exhibits two important features that the elastic-perfectly plastic solution does not show. First, in certain ranges of parameters, the elastic-softening beam has a clearly defined maximum load carrying capacity. Second, in some other ranges of parameters, the elastic-softening beam has a minimum load or residual strength. The beam stiffens up upon further deformation due to the reactions of the water foundation. Critical softening parameters are calculated that separate stable from unstable behavior.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian T. Wallace ◽  
Bhavani V. Sankar ◽  
Peter G. Ifju

Abstract The present study is concerned with translaminar reinforcement in a sandwich beam for preventing buckling of a delaminated face-sheet under axial compression. Graphite/epoxy pins are used as reinforcement in the thickness direction of sandwich beams consisting of graphite/epoxy face-sheets and a Aramid honeycomb core. Compression tests are performed to understand the effects of the diameter of the reinforcing pins and reinforcement spacing on the ultimate compressive strength of the delaminated beams. A finite element analysis is performed to understand the effects of translaminar reinforcement on the critical buckling loads and post-buckling behavior of the sandwich beam under axial compression.


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