Bending Capacity of Tubes With Lüders Bands: Influence of Geometric and Material Parameters

Author(s):  
Julian F. Hallai ◽  
Stelios Kyriakides

Previous studies involving a combination of experiment and analysis have shown that when bending a pipe with material that exhibits Lüders bands to strain levels of 2–3% the structure develops instabilities that can lead to premature collapse. It has been demonstrated that the associated events and limit states can be consistently simulated using 3D finite elements and an elastic-plastic constitutive model with an up-down-up material response. This paper presents the results of a parametric study of the problem in which a wide range of geometric and material parameters are considered. The parametric study quantifies the boundary between stable and unstable behavior and shows that the bounding values of Lüders strain depend on the D/t of the tube and the level of the Lüders stress.

2020 ◽  
Vol 857 ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Aysar Hassan Subair ◽  
Ala Nasir Aljorany

There are many constitutive models that have been used to model the mechanical behavior of soils. Some of these models are either unable to represent important features such as the strain softening of dense sand or required many parameters that can be hard to obtain by standard laboratory tests. Because of that, a more reliable constitutive model, which is capable to capture the main features of the soil behavior with easily obtained parameters, is required. The Hypoplasticity model is considered as a promising constitutive model in this respect. It is considered as a particular class of rate non-linear constitutive model at which the stress increment is expressed in a tensorial equation as a function of strain increment, actual stress, and void ratio. The hypoplastic model required only eight material parameters (critical friction angle critical, maximum and minimum void ratio respectively), granular stiffness hs and the model constants n, α, β). The appealing feature of the hypoplastic model is that the material parameters are separated from the state variables (void ratio and the initial stresses). This feature enables the model to simulate the soil behavior under a wide range of stresses and densities with the same set of material parameters. In this research, a brief description of the Hypoplasticity model is presented. Detailed discussions regarding the measurement and calibration of the model parameters of an Iraqi soil are then exposed. It is concluded that only Consolidated Drained (CD) triaxial test, oedometer test, and the well-known limit density tests are needed to get all the parameters of the hypoplasticity model.


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 357-367
Author(s):  
Tae-Rim Kim ◽  
Chi-Seung Lee

Polyurethane foam (PUF) is one of the most well-known cellular materials and is widely employed in various industrial and biomedical fields thanks to its many advantages. These include mechanical and material characteristics such as low density and thermal conductivity, and high specific elastic modulus and strength. Despite of these advantages, the PUF has extremely complex material nonlinearity, with changes in density and strain rate, which is a major obstacle to material design and the application of PUF-based structures. PUF has elasto-viscoplastic behavior including three stages of material features, linear elasticity, softening/plateau with stress drop and densification. These phenomena depend strongly on strain rate and density. Therefore, in this study, a phenomenological constitutive model, namely, an elasto-viscoplastic model, was proposed to describe the density- and strain rate-dependent material nonlinear behavior of PUF. The yield surface-independent plastic multiplier, and the hardening- and softening-associated internal state variables proposed by Frank and Brockman, and Zairi et al. were adopted in the constitutive model, respectively. The proposed constitutive model was discretized using the implicit time integration algorithm and was implemented into a user-defined subroutine of the commercial finite element analysis program, ABAQUS. At the same time, a deterministic identification method for material parameters of the constitutive model was introduced to predict the precise material response of PUF under arbitrary densities and strain rates. To do this, the three-dimensional constitutive model was contracted to a one-dimensional equation, and the explicit equation for each material parameter was derived. Then, the strain hardening- and softeningdependent material parameters were calculated using experimental results, such as the work hardening ratestress curve and the yield stress-strain rate curve. After analyzing the obtained material parameters, it was found that the material parameters were strongly dependent on the density and the strain rate. Consequently, the macroscopic material response of PUF, such as a uniaxial compressive stress-strain curve, can be predicted based on the proposed method in this study.


Author(s):  
Fulufhelo Nemavhola

AbstractRegional mechanics of the heart is vital in the development of accurate computational models for the pursuit of relevant therapies. Challenges related to heart dysfunctioning are the most important sources of mortality in the world. For example, myocardial infarction (MI) is the foremost killer in sub-Saharan African countries. Mechanical characterisation plays an important role in achieving accurate material behaviour. Material behaviour and constitutive modelling are essential for accurate development of computational models. The biaxial test data was utilised to generated Fung constitutive model material parameters of specific region of the pig myocardium. Also, Choi-Vito constitutive model material parameters were also determined in various myocardia regions. In most cases previously, the mechanical properties of the heart myocardium were assumed to be homogeneous. Most of the computational models developed have assumed that the all three heart regions exhibit similar mechanical properties. Hence, the main objective of this paper is to determine the mechanical material properties of healthy porcine myocardium in three regions, namely left ventricle (LV), mid-wall/interventricular septum (MDW) and right ventricle (RV). The biomechanical properties of the pig heart RV, LV and MDW were characterised using biaxial testing. The biaxial tests show the pig heart myocardium behaves non-linearly, heterogeneously and anisotropically. In this study, it was shown that RV, LV and MDW may exhibit slightly different mechanical properties. Material parameters of two selected constitutive models here may be helpful in regional tissue mechanics, especially for the understanding of various heart diseases and development of new therapies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Vittorio Scardaci ◽  
Giuseppe Compagnini

Laser scribing has been proposed as a fast and easy tool to reduce graphene oxide (GO) for a wide range of applications. Here, we investigate laser reduction of GO under a range of processing and material parameters, such as laser scan speed, number of laser passes, and material coverage. We use Raman spectroscopy for the characterization of the obtained materials. We demonstrate that laser scan speed is the most influential parameter, as a slower scan speed yields poor GO reduction. The number of laser passes is influential where the material coverage is higher, producing a significant improvement of GO reduction on a second pass. Material coverage is the least influential parameter, as it affects GO reduction only under restricted conditions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 717-720 ◽  
pp. 1101-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.G. Jaikumar ◽  
Shreepad Karmalkar

4H-Silicon Carbide VDMOSFET is simulated using the Sentaurus TCAD package of Synopsys. The simulator is calibrated against measured data for a wide range of bias conditions and temperature. Material parameters of 4H-SiC are taken from literature and used in the available silicon models of the simulator. The empirical parameters are adjusted to get a good fit between the simulated curves and measured data. The simulation incorporates the bias and temperature dependence of important physical mechanisms like interface trap density, coulombic interface trap scattering, surface roughness scattering and velocity saturation.


Author(s):  
Jung-Wook Wee ◽  
Byoung-Ho Choi

Creep and fatigue slow crack propagation of engineering thermoplastics display continuous or discontinuous manner depending on the test condition. It could be simulated accurately by use of crack layer theory with theoretical backgrounds. But many input parameters complexify the use of CL theory. Thus the investigation on the effect of material parameters on the CL growth is necessary for the comprehensive understanding. In this paper, a parametric study of CL growth simulation of single edge notched tension specimen in creep condition was performed. Several material parameters were varied so that the effect of input parameters on the CL growth behavior could be understood. Total lifetime is used to figure out the effect of the parameters quantitatively. This study would be beneficial to understand the effect of material parameters on the slow crack growth behavior of high density polyethylene.


Author(s):  
Salim Meziani ◽  
Lynda Djimli

The first objective of this paper investigates the influence of the previous strain history on ratcheting of the 304 L stainless steel on ambient temperature. The identification is done using the Chaboche constitutive model. New tests were performed where different strain-controlled histories have been applied prior to ratcheting tests. It is demonstrated that under the same conditions, one can observe ratcheting, plastic shakedown or elasticity according to the prior strain-controlled history. The second objective points out the correlation between the experimental data base devoted to the identification of the material parameters and the quality of the predictions in cyclic plasticity. The results suggest that the choice of the tests should be closely linked to the capabilities of the model. In particular, the presence of non proportional strain-controlled tests in the data base may be not a good choice if the model itself is not able to represent explicitly such a character.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Zhao ◽  
J. K. Lee

Abstract The main objective of this paper is to generate cyclic stress-strain curves for sheet metals so that the springback can be simulated accurately. Material parameters are identified by an inverse method within a selected constitutive model that represents the hardening behavior of materials subjected to a cyclic loading. Three-point bending tests are conducted on sheet steels (mild steel and high strength steel). Punch stroke, punch load, bending strain and bending angle are measured directly during the tests. Bending moments are then computed from these measured data. Bending moments are also calculated based on a constitutive model. Normal anisotropy and nonlinear isotropic/kinematic hardening are considered. Material parameters are identified by minimizing the normalized error between two bending moments. Micro genetic algorithm is used in the optimization procedure. Stress-strain curves are generated with the material parameters found in this way, which can be used with other plastic models.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Estrin ◽  
H. Braasch ◽  
Y. Brechet

A new constitutive model describing material response to cyclic loading is presented. The model includes dislocation densities as internal variables characterizing the microstructural state of the material. In the formulation of the constitutive equations, the dislocation density evolution resulting from interactions between dislocations in channel-like dislocation patterns is considered. The capabilities of the model are demonstrated for INCONEL 738 LC and Alloy 800H.


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