The Stress-Strain Relationship in Ebonite

1934 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
B. L. Davies

Abstract 1. A simple “extensometer” has been devised for the more accurate measurement of small elongations in hard rubber samples, thus enabling stress-strain curves to be obtained on a standard tensile testing machine. 2. The form of the curve has been described more fully than heretofore. It shows that hard rubber does not deform exactly in accordance with Hooke's Law, but exhibits plastic flow. 3. Deviations from Hooke's Law shown by the experimental curves depend upon the speed of stretching. Increased speed of elongation has been found to give higher readings of tensile strength. 4. Prolonged mastication of the rubber gives a weaker product, similar effects being obtainable by the use of a neutral softener. 5. The effects of increasing time of vulcanization have been described. The range of curves showing transition from over-cured soft rubber to ebonite indicates that the hard rubber curve is possibly related to the initial portion of the soft rubber curve. The plasticity of the overvulcanized rubber, as indicated by the deviation from Hooke's Law, increased with time of vulcanization until the “semi-ebonite” stage was reached. 6. The leather-like “semi-ebonites” differed from soft and hard rubber inasmuch as they were extremely sensitive to small changes in time of vulcanization, and inasmuch as their plasticity was such that the velocity of plastic flow was comparable with the rate of pulling (1 in. per minute), at a particular point in the test they experienced a large elongation at constant load, i. e., the velocity of flow was equal to the speed of pulling. Their plasticity decreased with further vulcanization. 7. The longest cures in the above-mentioned group gave products which were rigid at room temperature. Since these must be more resistant to shock than vulcanizates in a higher state of cure, it seems that the best technical cure of ebonite for mechanical purposes is that which gives maximum tensile strength combined with the property of undergoing considerable plastic flow (of the order of 5 per cent) at the constant maximum load, and at an arbitrarily fixed rate of stretching, the temperature being commensurate with the thermal conditions of service. Such a cure is clearly indicated by the stress-strain curve. 8. Accelerated ebonite mixings are more sensitive to time of cure than rubber-sulfur stocks without accelerators. An accelerator may produce very little effect on the tensile strength and breaking elongation, but may yield a stock which “scorches” readily. This prevulcanization was detrimental to the mechanical properties of the vulcanizate, even though it was so slight that its presence was not detected during normal processing. 9. Mineral rubber in ebonite stocks has been shown to accelerate the cure as indicated by the stress-strain curve. 10. Stocks containing high loadings of gas black gave vulcanizates which were weak and brittle. The effect of the black on the stiffness was similar to that produced by further cure. 11. The stress-strain curve provides a reliable means whereby stocks containing different accelerators and other compounding ingredients may be compared at equivalent states of vulcanization.

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 1878-1883 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Sherebrin ◽  
H. A. Bernans ◽  
Margot R. Roach

Some degree of calcification was noted in more than half of the 59 aortas of individuals aged from 15 to 88 we have examined at autopsy. The calcification, which is determined by x-raying the opened and flat aorta, is in patches. We have studied the influence of calcification on stress versus strain, breaking strength, and modulus of elasticity of strips of aorta to determine its importance in vascular disease. Strips of aortic wall 5 × 30 mm were cut with orientation parallel or perpendicular to the vessel axis. Elongation versus load was measured with an Instron tensile testing machine. The true stress and true strain were calculated for both calcified and uncalcified strips from the thoracic and abdominal regions in both orientations. From the stress–strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke. There were statistically significant differences in 13 of the 36 categories between calcified and uncalcified strips. The breaking strength and strain is lower in the calcified strips. The stress–strain curve for the uncalcified strip was mathematically transformed by reducing the amount of elongation so that the curve coincided with that of the calcified strip for eight matched pairs from the same individuals. The calcification appears to immobilize part of the strip, probably causing the boundary of the calcified tissue to be a region of high stress where tissue breakdown can occur.


1970 ◽  
Vol 185 (1) ◽  
pp. 1149-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Bitans ◽  
P. W. Whitton

Shear stress-shear strain curves for o.f.h.c. copper at room temperature have been obtained at constant shear strain rates in the range 1 to 103s-1, using thin walled tubular specimens in a flywheel type torsion testing machine. Results show that, for a given value of strain, the stress decreases when the rate of strain is increased. Moreover, the elastic portion of the stress-strain curve tends to disappear as the rate of strain is increased. It is postulated that these effects are due to the formation of adiabatic shear bands in the material when the given rate of strain is impressed rapidly enough. A special feature of the design of the testing machine used is the rapid application of the chosen strain rate.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1609-1618
Author(s):  
Long Lijuan ◽  
He Wentao ◽  
Li Juan ◽  
Xiang Yushu ◽  
Qin Shuhao ◽  
...  

In this work, the effects of inorganic phosphinate flame retardant of aluminum hypophosphite (AP) and organic phosphinate flame retardant of ethyl substituted phosphinates (AP-ethyl) on the thermal degradation, flame performance, and mechanical properties of polyamide 6 (PA6) were investigated. Scanning electron micrograph showed AP with the shape of bulk and the mean size of 8 μm while AP-ethyl with irregular shape and the mean size of 30 μm. Thermal analysis indicated that the thermal degradation behavior of flame-retardant PA6 was different from pure PA6. Moreover, the cone calorimeter test results revealed that peak heat release rate (PHRR) of PA6/AP (85/15) and PA6/AP-ethyl (85/15) decreased by 51% and 64%, respectively, compared with pure PA6. Furthermore, pure PA6 showed ductile stress–strain curve with the tensile strength of 54.8 MPa. However, PA6/AP and PA6/AP-ethyl displayed brittle stress–strain curve and their tensile strength decreased to 52.3 and 47.1 MPa, respectively. In addition, pure PA6 showed a glossy and tough fracture surface morphology. The rough fracture surface morphologies for PA6/AP and PA6/AP-ethyl were observed, and the interface of PA6/AP was more obscure than that of PA6/AP-ethyl. Consequently, the small particle size of AP had a more uniform dispersion in PA6 matrix.


1937 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
R. J. Lean ◽  
H. Quinney

The paper contains an account of a research into the effect on metals of different speeds of fracture, using a specially designed high-speed testing machine which is described in detail. The experiments were conducted both in this machine and in a 5-ton variable-speed autographic tensile machine, on five steels, the rate of loading being varied for each. With the high-speed machine toughness, ductility, time to produce fracture, and the stress-strain curve were obtained. The results of these combined tests, given in tables and graphs, show that there is a marked increase in stress due to higher speed of testing; and also that the work required to cause fracture increases with the speed. For mild steel the stress at the initial yield point was found to be in excess of that at the maximum point, when the speed of testing was increased the ductility did not appear to suffer.


1935 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
T. R. Griffith

Abstract A brief consideration of the work that has been done on the structure of rubber convinces, one that the elasticity is wholly or at least mainly explained by a consideration of the kinetics involved. The fact that when a strip of stretched rubber, one end of which is free, contracts when it is warmed, contrary to the behavior of most bodies, and that it becomes warmed on stretching, commonly known as the Gough-Joule effect, pp. 453–461, would lead one to suspect .that there is a connection between the kinetic energy of the rubber molecule and its elasticity. Lundal, Bouasse, Hyde, Somerville and Cope, Partenheimer and Whitby and Katz have reported observations, principally stress-strain curves, which show that vulcanized rubber has a lower modulus of elasticity at higher temperatures, i. e., it becomes easier to stretch as the temperature is raised. On the other hand, Schmulewitsch, Stevens, and Williams found that the elastic modulus increases with the temperature. Williams shows that the softening of vulcanized rubber with rise of temperature is due to an increase of plasticity. In order to get rid of plastic flow, he first stretches the specimen several times to within about 50 per cent of its breaking elongation, and then obtains an autographic stress-strain curve of the rubber stretched very quickly. He finds that in this case the rubber actually becomes stiffer with rise of temperature, increasing temperatures causing the stress-strain curves to lean progressively more and more toward the stress axis. He concludes that rise of temperature has two effects, one a softening due to increase of plasticity, rendering plastic flow more easy, the other an actual stiffening of the rubber due to rise of temperature. It is not easy to explain the latter effect on any theory which does not take kinetics into account.


2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juxia Wang ◽  
Decong Zheng ◽  
Qingliang Cui ◽  
Shuanghua Xu ◽  
Bingyao Jiang

Fruit and vegetable peels exert a protective effect on fruits as constituent parts of the outermost tissue and their properties are of great importance to reducing fruit and vegetable mechanical injury. Four kinds of fruit and vegetable peels such as Nagafu apple, Crisp pear, Tainong mango and long eggplant were chosen to perform longitudinal and transverse tests of tensile property by means of electronic universal testing machine. Stress-strain curve, tensile strength, elastic modulus and fracture strain of peels were obtained; and the microstructures of four kinds of peels were scanned using an electron microscope (SEM). The results indicated that cubic polynomials proved superior for quantifying the stress-strain non-linear relationship of peels and the fitting error of tensile strength is less than 10 parts per thousand. Tensile strength, elastic modulus and fracture strain of peels were different in the case of different fruits and vegetables cultivated and different parts of the same peel; fruit and vegetable peels belong to anisotropic heterogeneous materials and have certain strength. The mean values of tensile strength and fracture strain of the long eggplant peel are the biggest in four kinds of peels and that of elastic modulus of Nagafu apple peel is the largest; long eggplant and Nagafu apple peels had better resistance to damage sensibility than Crisp pear peel. The bearing capacity of the peels depends on the number, width and distribution of microcracks on the surface, and the shape of the epidermal cells and fruit dot on peels; the number of microcracks is bigger and the width of microcracks is wider, the tensile strength is smaller and the elastic modulus of peel is bigger with the slippage increase of epidermis cells. This study provides basic technical parameters for mechanical equipment design for fruit and vegetable during harvesting, processing, packaging, storing and transporting and builds the correlations between macro-mechanics properties and microstructures of fruit and vegetable peels.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Kornuta ◽  
Nicoli M. Ames ◽  
Mary W. Louie ◽  
Peter Veloo ◽  
Troy Rovella

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), with Docket No. PHMSA-2011-0023, substantially revises 49 CFR Part 191 and 192. Notable among these changes was the addition of §192.607, verification of pipeline material. This section calls for the verification of material properties of pipe and fittings located in either high consequence areas, class 3, or class 4 locations where traceable, verifiable, and complete records do not exist. Material properties include grade (yield strength, YS, and ultimate tensile strength, UTS) and chemical composition. The proposed regulations include an independent third-party validation for non-destructive testing (NDT) methods to determine material strength and require an accuracy of within ±10% of an actual strength value. Among the NDT technologies currently available to pipeline operators to estimate material strength is instrumented indentation testing (IIT). IIT is based on the principal that there exists a relationship between the indentation response of a material and its stress-strain curve. The indentation response is measured during the IIT process whereby an indenter is sequentially forced into the material during testing. The link between the indentation response and the material stress-strain curve is established often through the use of iterative Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The IIT vendor’s proprietary software performs this calculation, converting force-displacement measurements into an estimate of YS and UTS. In this study we extracted force-displacement data from IIT performed using FEA on an idealized steel. This data was then coupled with literature algorithms developed at Seoul National University (Kwon et al.). Parametric sensitivity analysis was then performed on estimated YS with respect to the algorithm parameters. Preliminary results indicate that while variations in the indenter constant, ω, used to estimate surface deformation do not significantly alter the predicted UTS or YS, the sensitivity to deviations in the empirical constant, Ψ, relating normal load to representative stress was more pronounced due to an effect on the calculated power-law constant, K. PHMSA’s NPRM accuracy requirements for NDT to establish yield and tensile strength should be driven by a rigorous understanding of material inhomogeneities, uncertainties in actual tensile strength determination, experimental uncertainty, and modeling uncertainties. The analysis performed in this paper provides part of this rigorous framework to establish realistic accuracy requirements for NDT that must drive federal rulemaking. In addition, this research highlights the need for pipeline operators to establish controls on the algorithms adopted by commercial NDT vendors.


1951 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-160
Author(s):  
D. S. Villars

Abstract A high speed stress-strain machine has been developed which is capable of recording the stress-strain curve of elastomers at elongation rates up to 270 per cent/msec. Data are reported on two series of gum and tread stocks of Hevea and of the synthetic elastomers, GR-S, Hycar-OR, Butyl, Perbunan, and Neoprene-GN. The second (elastomer) series was also run at 150° C. In general, stress-strain curves fall into two classes. Stocks of elastomers which are known to crystallize on stretching tend to show tensile strengths which decrease with increasing speed up to about 10 per cent/msec, pass through a minimum, and rise more or less drastically to values 100 per cent (or more) greater than the Scott tensile strength. Elastomers which do not crystallize on stretching tend to show a steady rise in tensile strength with increasing speed. Elongation at break curves show a maximum with crystallizing stocks and no maximum with noncrystallizing stocks. The shape of the modulus vs. speed curves is accounted for on the hypothesis of different types of slipping bonds with different characteristic relaxation times. The shift of curves for tread stocks with temperature allows the estimation of a heat of activation of slippage. This comes out to be of the order of 3 kg.-cal.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sampath S.S. ◽  
Nethri Rammohan ◽  
Reema Shetty ◽  
Sawan Shetty ◽  
Chithirai Pon Selvan M.

Purpose Stainless steel is one of the most important elements in structural design and application, and due to its excellent properties, it is widely used in industries for conventional structural engineering applications, such as thermal power plants, nuclear power plants, civil constructions, etc. (Mishra et al., 2014). A traditional tensile testing machine cannot determine the transversal stress–strain curves (Olden, 2002, 2013). Design/methodology/approach In the present study, identical mild steel specimen parts are welded at different intervals and then subjected to tensile loading. Welding is carried along the length of the specimen. Induced stresses are determined at the welded intervals and the stress–strain curve is obtained. Findings By considering the temperature of the weld at the interface, thermal stresses are determined. Brinell hardness number is determined at the interface and the base metal. Also, the change in the hardness at the heat-affected zone (HAZ) is found. Validation is carried out by comparing the results with the original stress–strain curve. Originality/value In the HAZ, there is a drop in the hardness number, which means that there is a change in the material property due to welding. The thermal stresses which develop at the interface can also play a very important role for property change. Results show that the stress developed due to the rise in temperature is lesser than that of normal stresses.


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