Simulation of Rubber-Coated Fabric Material Damage

2011 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 585-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Derewonko ◽  
Pawel Baranowski ◽  
Dariusz Rudnik

The objective of this work is to describe part of the selecting process of a rubber-coated fabric material model. The material is used to construct an air cushion that is a carrying element of the cassette pontoon bridge unit. During operation the air cushion is permanently in contact with a metal component, fresh water and air. Therefore various interactions, such as a contact problem, flow of medium and thermodynamics can occur. The basic material model for numerical simulation was selected based on the uniaxial tensile test. The simple method was used to describe time-dependent material properties for numerical analysis, which allows computation to take a reasonable time. In order to assess the usefulness of the selected material model the impact puncture test was modelled with the same conditions and properties as in the laboratory testing machine called Instron. Moreover, an attempt of simulating the damage process is described. The energy absorbed by the material was registered during the laboratory test which was compared with the results of numerical analysis. An acceptable compatibility of the results is noticed.

2019 ◽  
pp. 089270571986827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayan Pundhir ◽  
Sunny Zafar ◽  
Himanshu Pathak

The present work deals with the microwave-assisted compression moulding of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-based composites. In the present work, 20 wt% of reinforcement in the form of kenaf and multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) was used to fabricate HDPE/kenaf and HDPE/MWCNT polymer composites. The mechanical characterizations of the microwave-processed composites were carried out in terms of uniaxial tensile test with different strain rate, multistep stress relaxation, flexural and impact test. The uniaxial tensile test revealed that the tensile modulus of microwave-processed four-layered HDPE/kenaf polymer composite was 35.2% higher than that of HDPE/MWCNT polymer composite. The HDPE/MWCNT polymer composite showed a minimum of 1.25 GPa and a maximum of 4.7 GPa of elastic modulus when tested at different strain rate. The impact energy absorbed by the HDPE/kenaf polymer composite (1.055 J) was 81.12% higher than the HDPE/MWCNT polymer composite (0.582 J).


Author(s):  
Jorge de Andres ◽  
Michael D. Jones ◽  
Catrin M. Davies

Abstract A new technique has recently been proposed to provide improved estimates of the creep contribution to the crack mouth opening displacements (CMOD) and displacement rates during creep crack growth (CCG) tests. This technique employs finite element analysis that incorporates material specific uniaxial tensile test data to simulate crack growth in an experimental test and can account for strain history and creep stress relaxation effects during CCG tests. In this work, this new methodology is applied to analyse the results of a CCG test performed on a relatively low constraint single edge notched tension, SEN(T), geometry. The proportions of the CMOD due to elasticity and plasticity are quantified, and compared to historic, standardised methods of estimating these values. The new method reduces the over estimation of the contribution of plasticity to the CMOD measurement. The impact of this analysis on CCG test results is discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 1885-1890 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZUOCHENG WANG ◽  
GUOTAO CUI ◽  
TAO SUN ◽  
WEIMIN GUO ◽  
XIULING ZHAO ◽  
...  

In our research, boron was added into the Nb -added high strength low alloy (HSLA) H -section steels. The contents of boron added were 4ppm, 8ppm and 11ppm, respectively. The mechanical properties of H -section steels with/without boron were examined by using uniaxial tensile test and Charpy impact test ( V -notch). The morphologies of the microstructure and the fracture surfaces of the impact specimens were observed by metalloscope, stereomicroscope and electron probe. The experimental results indicate that boron gives a significant increase in impact toughness, especially in low temperature impact toughness, though it leads to an unremarkable increase in strength and plasticity. For instance, the absorbed energy at -40°C reaches up to 126J from 15J by 8ppm boron addition, and the ductile-brittle transition temperature declines by 20°C. It is shown that boron has a beneficial effect on grain refinement. The fracture mechanism is transited from cleavage fracture to dimple fracture due to boron addition.


Author(s):  
Xiaodong Zhang ◽  
Shuguang Liu ◽  
Changwang Yan ◽  
Xiaoxiao Wang ◽  
Huiwen Wang

The purpose of this study was to conduct laboratory test programs on how much vehicle-induced vibrations during early ages affected the tensile performance of Polyvinyl alcohol-engineering cementitious composites (PVA-ECC). A self-improved device was used to simulate the vehicle-induced vibrations, and after vibrating with the designed variables, both a uniaxial tensile test and a grey correlation analysis were performed. The results indicated that: the effects of vehicle-induced vibrations on the tensile performance of early age PVA-ECC were significant, and they generally tended to be negative in this investigation. In particular, for all of the vibrated PVA-ECC specimens, the most negative age when vibrated occurred during the period between the initial set and the final set. In this period, the effects of the vibration duration on the tensile performance of the PVA-ECC tended to be negative overall, but the impact trend and the degree varied for the corresponding lengths of duration and levels of frequency. The cracking strength was the most sensitive to the variables in this investigation, and then it followed the ultimate tensile strength and strain. The grey correlation analysis was applicable in analyzing the effects of vehicle-induced vibrations on the tensile performance of early age PVA-ECC.


Author(s):  
M. T. Akolawole ◽  
Yongchang Pu

Pipe-in-pipe (PIP) flowline is a unique solution for long subsea tie-backs in deepwater and ultra-deepwater fields. This is because of its optimum thermal performance over wet insulation. However, pipelines are subjected to the highest loading condition during installation. Significant limitation imposed on existing installation vessel in deepwater, is peculiar to S-lay installation method. Contrary to the level of stress experienced with the S-lay installation method at specific locations such as overbend and sagbend region, this method is still widely utilized because of its high production rate. These regions are dominated by bending curvatures which are defined by different load conditions. Due to the composition of PIP system, it is important to understand the structural response of the flowline, the mechanical interaction occurring between various components and the amount of load transfer at this location. Although, the mechanical interaction within the PIP system are case specific. However, it has been observed that prior to case study analysis; simple pipe models are being developed to assess the mechanical interaction of this system. This paper addresses the impact of the centralizer material on the structural response and load transfer between the outer pipe and inner pipe. The numerical analysis was carried out using Ansys software and was based on Euler Bernoulli bending theory. The centralizer was clamped on to the inner pipe with the clearance between the centralizer and the outer pipe included in the model. The core of the analysis, was modeling the visco-elastic response of nylon rings (Polyamide 6), from which centralizers are made. The centralizer was spaced based on S-lay or J-lay installation criteria against heat sink. The results demonstrated the relationship between spacing of the centralizer and areas of first contact, amount of force transferred through the centralizer material, non-linearity introduced by contact formulation, alongside the time and temperature dependent behavior of visco-elastic material. The result correlated accurately with the bending principle. Different material model was assessed to determine accuracy of results obtained, in the absence of experimental test data to model visco-elastic response. In addition, the bending curvature was used to predict the mechanical interaction in installation and operation analysis, where limitations of explicitly modeling centralizers exist.


2016 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena de Gelidi ◽  
Gianluca Tozzi ◽  
Andrea Bucchi

Rubber-like materials as many soft tissues can be described as incompressible and hyper-elastic materials. Their comparable elastic behavior, up to a certain extent, has been exploited to develop and test experimental methodologies to be then applied to soft biological tissues such as aortic wall. Hence, theoretical and experimental simulation of aortic tissue, and more generally blood vessel tissue, has been often conducted using rubbers. Despite all the efforts in characterizing such materials, a clear and comprehensive testing procedure is still missing. In particular, the influence of pre-conditioning in the mechanical response of hyper-elastic materials has been often neglected. In this paper, the importance of pre-conditioning is demonstrated by: (i) exploring the effect of stretching frequency applied before the uniaxial tensile test; (ii) recognizing the role of specimen geometry and strain amplitude; (iii) verifying the impact of experimental data acquisition on finite element predictions. It was found that stress–strain relationship shows a statistical difference between some frequencies of pre-conditioning and its absence. Only certain pre-conditioning frequencies were able to generate repeatable experimental data for strip or dumb-bell shapes. This feature corresponds to a consistent reduction in the scatter of critical pressures obtained by numerical simulations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislaw Kut ◽  
Grazyna Ryzinska ◽  
Bernadetta Niedzialek

Abstract The article presents the results of tests in order to verifying the effectiveness of the nine selected elastomeric material models (Neo-Hookean, Mooney with two and three constants, Signorini, Yeoh, Ogden, Arruda-Boyce, Gent and Marlow), which the material constants were determined in one material test - the uniaxial tension testing. The convergence assessment of nine analyzed models were made on the basis of their performance from an experimental bending test of the elastomer samples from the results of numerical calculations FEM for each material models. To calculate the material constants for the analyzed materials, a model has been generated by the stressstrain characteristics created as a result of experimental uniaxial tensile test with elastomeric dumbbell samples, taking into account the parameters received in its 18th cycle. Using such a calculated material constants numerical simulation of the bending process of a elastomeric, parallelepipedic sampleswere carried out using MARC / Mentat program.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3117
Author(s):  
Ihor Dzioba ◽  
Sebastian Lipiec ◽  
Robert Pala ◽  
Piotr Furmanczyk

Tensile uniaxial test is typically used to determine the strength and plasticity of a material. Nominal (engineering) stress-strain relationship is suitable for determining properties when elastic strain dominates (e.g., yield strength, Young’s modulus). For loading conditions where plastic deformation is significant (in front of a crack tip or in a neck), the use of true stress and strain values and the relationship between them are required. Under these conditions, the dependence between the true values of stresses and strains should be treated as a characteristic—a constitutive relationship of the material. This article presents several methodologies to develop a constitutive relationship for S355 steel from tensile test data. The constitutive relationship developed was incorporated into a finite element analysis of the tension test and verified with the measured tensile test data. The method of the constitutive relationship defining takes into account the impact of high plastic strain, the triaxiality stress factor, Lode coefficient, and material weakness due to the formation of microvoids, which leads to obtained correctly results by FEM (finite elements method) calculation. The different variants of constitutive relationships were applied to the FEM loading simulation of the three-point bending SENB (single edge notched bend) specimen to evaluate their applicability to the calculation of mechanical fields in the presence of a crack.


Meccanica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-416
Author(s):  
L. Rose ◽  
A. Menzel

AbstractThe possibility of accurately identifying thermal material parameters on the basis of a simple tension test is presented, using a parameter identification framework for thermo-mechanically coupled material models on the basis of full field displacement and temperature field measurements. Main objective is to show the impact of the material model formulation on the results of such an identification with respect to accuracy and uniqueness of the result. To do so, and as a proof of concept, the data of two different experiments is used. One experiment including cooling of the specimen, due to ambient temperature, and one without specimen cooling. The main constitutive relations of two basic material models are summarised (associated and non-associated plasticity), whereas both models are extended so as to introduce an additional material parameter for the thermodynamically consistent scaling of dissipated energy. The chosen models are subjected to two parameter identifications each, using the data of either experiment and focusing on the determination of thermal material parameters. The influence of the predicted dissipated energy of the models on the identification process is investigated showing that a specific material model formulation must be chosen carefully. The material model with associated evolution equations used within this work does neither allow a unique identification result, nor is any of the solutions for the underlying material parameters close to literature values. In contrast to that, a stable, that is locally unique, re-identification of the literature values is possible for the boundary problem at hand if the model with non-associated evolution equation is used and if cooling is included in the experimental data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2100-2102

The surface temperature of hot die steel reaches typically up to 550ºC or above during processes like hot extrusion and casting non-ferrous material. The present paper explores the impact of austenitizing temperature as well as tempering temperature on the tensile strength of hot die steel. Heat treatment is done at three different austenitizing temperatures of 1010ºC, 1030ºC, and 1050ºC, followed by tempering done at two different temperatures of 540ºC and 580°C. Tempering is done twice for two hours. Metallographic grinding, polishing, and then etching using 2% Nital is done to investigate the microstructure of hot die steel with respect to its heat treatment. It is found that the grain size of hot die steel increases with an increase in austenitizing temperature. The impact on tensile strength of hot die steel for its heat treatment is examined by conducting the uniaxial tensile test to fracture. And investigation of the morphology of the fracture surface produced after the tensile test is done. It was found that hot die steel with large grain size exhibits lesser tensile strength. Whereas, the one having smaller grain has higher tensile strength that is found to be in accordance with the Hall-Patch equation


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