scholarly journals Identification of the Mechanical Properties of Superconducting Windings Using the Virtual Fields Method

2010 ◽  
Vol 24-25 ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
J.H. Kim ◽  
F. Nunio ◽  
Fabrice Pierron ◽  
P. Vedrine

Tensile tests were performed in order to identify the stiffness components of superconducting windings in the shape of rings (also called ‘double pancakes’). The stereo image correlation technique was used for full-field displacement measurements. The strain components were then obtained from the measured displacement fields by numerical differentiation. Because differentiation is very sensitive to spatial noise, the displacement maps were fitted by polynomials before differentiation using a linear least-square method. Then, in the orthotropy basis, the four in-plane stiffnesses of the double pancake were determined using the Virtual Fields Method.

Author(s):  
Rong Wu ◽  
Shili Zhao ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
Shuiqiang Zhang

Abstract We propose a full-field stereo digital image correlation (DIC) strain measurement method in order to overcome the poor accuracy while measuring the deformation under large rotations. Such drawback comes from the missing of considering rotation movements of the deformed objects when calculating their strain values. To address that, we first used a DIC matching algorithm combined with rotated subset and feature point detection to obtain displacement fields. By employing a singular value decomposition (SVD) method, we then can calculate rotation matrices of the strain windows before and after deformations. Finally, in order to eliminate the strain errors caused by rotation, we introduced the rotation matrices into the classical pointwise least square (PLS) DIC strain calculation method. Both numerical simulations and experiments are performed, and the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method are confirmed by the experimental results.


Author(s):  
Stefan Hartmann ◽  
Rose Rogin Gilbert

AbstractIn this article, we follow a thorough matrix presentation of material parameter identification using a least-square approach, where the model is given by non-linear finite elements, and the experimental data is provided by both force data as well as full-field strain measurement data based on digital image correlation. First, the rigorous concept of semi-discretization for the direct problem is chosen, where—in the first step—the spatial discretization yields a large system of differential-algebraic equation (DAE-system). This is solved using a time-adaptive, high-order, singly diagonally-implicit Runge–Kutta method. Second, to study the fully analytical versus fully numerical determination of the sensitivities, required in a gradient-based optimization scheme, the force determination using the Lagrange-multiplier method and the strain computation must be provided explicitly. The consideration of the strains is necessary to circumvent the influence of rigid body motions occurring in the experimental data. This is done by applying an external strain determination tool which is based on the nodal displacements of the finite element program. Third, we apply the concept of local identifiability on the entire parameter identification procedure and show its influence on the choice of the parameters of the rate-type constitutive model. As a test example, a finite strain viscoelasticity model and biaxial tensile tests applied to a rubber-like material are chosen.


Author(s):  
Giovanni B. Broggiato ◽  
Luca Cortese

In experimental mechanics, the possibility of tracking on component surfaces the full-field stress and strain states during deformation can be utilized for many purposes such as formability limits determination, quantification of stress intensification factors, material characterization and so on. Concerning the last topic, an interesting application could be a direct identification of the elasto-plastic material response up to large deformation. It is well known, in fact, that with traditional measurement devices it is possible to retrieve the true equivalent stress versus true equivalent strain data from tensile tests only up to the onset of necking, where localization starts to occur. This work aims to show how from the knowledge of a tensile test full-field strain and of load data it will be possible to obtain the full-stress field as well as the complete material elasto-plastic behavior.


2011 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Le Louëdec ◽  
M.A. Sutton ◽  
Fabrice Pierron

Welding is one of the most popular joining technologies in industry. Depending on the materials to be joined, the geometry of the parts and the number of parts to be joined, there is a wide variety of methods that can be used. These joining techniques share a common feature: the material in the weld zone experiences different thermo-mechanical history, resulting in significant variations in material microstructure and spatial heterogeneity in mechanical properties. To optimize the joining process, or to refine the design of welded structures, it is necessary to identify the local mechanical properties within the different regions of the weld. The development of full-field kinematic measurements (digital image correlation, speckle interferometry, etc.) helps to shed a new light on this problem. The large amount of experimental information attained with these methods makes it possible to visualize the spatial distribution of strain on the specimen surface. Full-field kinematic measurements provide more information regarding the spatial variations in material behaviour. As a consequence, it is now possible to quantify the spatial variations in mechanical properties within the weld region through a properly constructed inverse analysis procedure. High speed tensile tests have been performed on FSW aluminium welds. The test was performed on an MTS machine at a cross-head speed of up to 76 mm/s. Displacement fields were measured across the specimen by coupling digital image correlation with a high-speed camera (Phantom V7.1) taking 1000 frames per second. Then, through the use of the virtual fields method it is possible to retrieve the mechanical parameters of the different areas of the weld from the strain field and the loading. The elastic parameters (Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio) are supposed to be constant through the weld. Their identification was carried out using the virtual fields method in elasticity using the data of the early stage of the experiment. Assuming that the mechanical properties (elastic and plastic) of the weld are constant through the thickness, the plastic parameters were identified on small sections through the specimen, using a simple linear hardening model. This method leads to a discrete identification of the evolution of the mechanical properties through the weld. It allows the understanding of the slight variations of yield stress and hardening due to the complexity of the welding process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-192
Author(s):  
Nedaa Amraish ◽  
Andreas Reisinger ◽  
Dieter H. Pahr

Digital image correlation (DIC) systems have been used in many engineering fields to obtain surface full-field strain distribution. However, noise affects the accuracy and precision of the measurements due to many factors. The aim of this study was to find out how different filtering options; namely, simple mean filtering, Gaussian mean filtering and Gaussian low-pass filtering (LPF), reduce noise while maintaining the full-field information based on constant, linear and quadratic strain fields. Investigations are done in two steps. First, linear and quadratic strain fields with and without noise are simulated and projected to discrete measurement points which build up strain window sizes consisting of 6×5, 12×11, and 26×17 points. Optimal filter sizes are computed for each filter strategy, strain field type, and strain windows size, with minimal impairment of the signal information. Second, these filter sizes are used to filter full-field strain distributions of steel samples under tensile tests by using an ARAMIS DIC system to show their practical applicability. Results for the first part show that for a typical 12×11 strain window, simple mean filtering achieves an error reduction of 66–69%, Gaussian mean filtering of 72–75%, and Gaussian LPF of 66–69%. If optimized filters are used for DIC measurements on steel samples, the total strain error can be reduced from initial 240−300 μstrain to 100–150 μstrain. In conclusion, the noise-floor of DIC signals is considerable and the preferable filters were a simple mean with s*¯ = 2, a Gaussian mean with σ*¯ = 1.7, and a Gaussian LPF with D0*¯ = 2.5 in the examined cases.


2016 ◽  
Vol 821 ◽  
pp. 428-434
Author(s):  
Petr Koudelka ◽  
Michaela Neuhauserova ◽  
Tomáš Fíla ◽  
Daniel Kytýř

In this work parametric modelling was utilized to design and produce two types of porous microarchitectures with auxetic compressive properties suitable for deformation energy mitigation applications such as blast and bullet protection. The samples were directly produced from acrylic material using a high resolution 3D printer and their compressive mechanical characteristics were tested. Two different structures exhibiting in-plane negative strain dependent Poisson’s ratio were selected for the analysis: i) two-dimensional inverted (re-entrant) honeycomb and ii) two-dimensional cut missing-rib. Stress-strain relationships were established from a set of quasi-static compression experiments where the strain fields were evaluated using digital image correlation applied to measure the full-field displacements on the samples' surface. From the displacement fields true strain – true stress curves were derived for each sample and relative elastic moduli were evaluated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. 305-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Brynk ◽  
Barbara Romelczyk ◽  
Zbigniew Pakiela ◽  
Tomasz Kurzynowski ◽  
Edward Chlebus

Mini-samples technique was utilized to determine mechanical properties of technically pure titanium produced by means of selective laser melting (SLM). Full-field digital image correlation (DIC) measurements and inverse method were applied for crack tip position and stress intensity factors calculations in the case of fatigue crack growth rate tests. DIC was also used for strain measurement during tensile tests on sub sized samples. There was studied the influence of samples orientation on the mechanical properties of mini-samples. Samples were cut out from rectangular cubes and were oriented with 0°, 45° or 90° angle to the direction of laser beam travel. There were also tested samples directly produced via SLM. Additionally microstructure observations were performed to verify the quality of SLM processed materials and explain mechanical properties variations.


Aerospace ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena (Huiqing) Jin ◽  
Wei-Yang Lu ◽  
Jeff Chames ◽  
Nancy Yang

A new experimental technique was developed to characterize the mechanical properties of LIGA (an acronym from German words for lithography, electroplating, and molding) materials. An advanced imaging capability, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), with an integrated loading stage allows the acquisition of in situ microstructural images at the micro scale during loading. The load is measured directly from a load cell, and the displacement field is calculated from the SEM images based on the digital image correlation (DIC) technique. The DIC technique is a full-field deformation measurement technique which obtains displacement fields by comparing random speckle patterns on the specimen surface before and after deformation. The random speckle patterns are typically generated by applying a thin layer of material with high contrast to a specimen surface. Alternatively, DIC can also be applied using the microstructural features of a surface as texture patterns for correlation. DIC technique is ideally suited to characterize the deformation field of MEMS structures without the need to generate a random speckle pattern, which can be very challenging on the micro and nanoscale. In this paper, the technique is experimentally demonstrated on a LIGA specimen. The digital images showing LIGA surface features acquired during the loading can serve as random patterns for the DIC method. Therefore, full-field displacement and strain can be obtained directly on the specimen and the errors incurred by the testing system can be eliminated.


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