scholarly journals Effects of strain rate and surface cracks on the mechanical behaviour of Balmoral Red granite

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2085) ◽  
pp. 20160179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mardoukhi ◽  
Yousof Mardoukhi ◽  
Mikko Hokka ◽  
Veli-Tapani Kuokkala
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Dynamic Strength ◽  
Fractal Dimensions ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Tensile Behaviour ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Surface Cracks ◽  
High Strain Rates

This work presents a systematic study on the effects of strain rate and surface cracks on the mechanical properties and behaviour of Balmoral Red granite. The tensile behaviour of the rock was studied at low and high strain rates using Brazilian disc samples. Heat shocks were used to produce samples with different amounts of surface cracks. The surface crack patterns were analysed using optical microscopy, and the complexity of the patterns was quantified by calculating the fractal dimensions of the patterns. The strength of the rock clearly drops as a function of increasing fractal dimensions in the studied strain rate range. However, the dynamic strength of the rock drops significantly faster than the quasi-static strength, and, because of this, also the strain rate sensitivity of the rock decreases with increasing fractal dimensions. This can be explained by the fracture behaviour and fragmentation during the dynamic loading, which is more strongly affected by the heat shock than the fragmentation at low strain rates. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Experimental testing and modelling of brittle materials at high strain rates’.

Strain-Rate Sensitivity Enhanced by Grain-Boundary Sliding in Creep Condition for AZ31 Magnesium Alloy at Room Temperature

2016 ◽  
Vol 838-839 ◽  
pp. 106-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Matsunaga ◽  
Hidetoshi Somekawa ◽  
Hiromichi Hongo ◽  
Masaaki Tabuchi
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Grain Boundary Sliding ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Boundary Sliding

This study investigated strain-rate sensitivity (SRS) in an as-extruded AZ31 magnesium (Mg) alloy with grain size of about 10 mm. Although the alloy shows negligible SRS at strain rates of >10-5 s-1 at room temperature, the exponent increased by one order from 0.008 to 0.06 with decrease of the strain rate down to 10-8 s-1. The activation volume (V) was evaluated as approximately 100b3 at high strain rates and as about 15b3 at low strain rates (where b is the Burgers vector). In addition, deformation twin was observed only at high strain rates. Because the twin nucleates at the grain boundary, stress concentration is necessary to be accommodated by dislocation absorption into the grain boundary at low strain rates. Extrinsic grain boundary dislocations move and engender grain boundary sliding (GBS) with low thermal assistance. Therefore, GBS enhances and engenders SRS in AZ31 Mg alloy at room temperature.

High Strain Rate Behaviour of Iron and Nickel

1972 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
True Strain ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Correction Method ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Controlling Mechanism ◽  
Split Hopkinson ◽  
Rate Behaviour

An investigation into the mechanical behaviour of iron and nickel at high strain rates is carried out, using a split Hopkinson bar method. Some special adaptations, a correction method for the effects arising from the adiabatic conditions of dynamic deformation and a simplified data processing procedure are described in detail. The test conditions covered a range of strain rates between 500 and about 10 000/s and temperatures from 20 to 500°C. For both metals, the results are presented by means of a family of true stress-true strain curves. The strong strain rate sensitivity at high strain rates indicates that the rate controlling mechanism differs from that operative at ‘static’ strain rates.

High Strain Rate Behavior of Metals

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (5S) ◽  
pp. S9-S22 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Flow Stress ◽  
High Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Shear Strain Rate ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Strain Rate Change

Experimental results on the high strain rate response of polycrystalline metals are reviewed, with emphasis on the behavior of pure metals. A strong increase in flow stress with increasing strain rate is reported for strain rates of approximately 105s−1 and higher. This increase is observed in pressure-shear plate impact experiments at nominally constant strain rates from 105s−1 to 106s−1. To improve understanding of the increased rate sensitivity at high strain rates, pressure-shear, strain-rate-change experiments have been conducted on OFHC copper specimens. These experiments have been analyzed using a conventional viscoplasticity formulation and an internal variable formulation in which the hardening rate depends on the rate of deformation. Only the latter formulation is successful in describing the observed response to the change in strain rate. This observation is discussed in terms of its implications for interpreting other dynamic plasticity experiments and for improved understanding of the underlying dislocation mechanisms. The enhanced rate sensitivity at high strain rates is concluded to be related primarily to the rate sensitivity of strain hardening, not the rate sensitivity of the flow stress at constant structure.

Research on the Mechanical Behavior of Styropor Concrete at High Strain Rates

2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 2086-2091
Author(s):  
Ze Bin Hu ◽  
Jin Yu Xu ◽  
Jie Zhu ◽  
Qiang He ◽  
Gang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Modulus ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Dynamic Strength ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Average Strain ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Average Strain Rate ◽  
The Impact

Mechanical behavior of Styropor concrete(EPSC) added with various volumetric fractions of EPS subjected to high strain rates were studied by using the Large-Diameter-SHPB. The infection of volumetric fractions and average strain rate to dynamic properties of EPSC were investigated. The experimental results show that under high strain rate condition, the dynamic strength, dynamic strength increase factor(DIF) and limit strain of EPSC are strain rate dependent, the strain rate effect can be expressed by linear approximations, and the relationship between elastic modulus and average strain rate is independent.With the addition of volumetric fractions of EPS, the impact compressive strength and elastic modulus of EPSC declines, and the toughness of EPSC is reinforced.

Investigation on Strain Rate Sensitivity of 3D Printed sPEEK-HAP/rGO Composites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sagar Mahalingappa Baligidad ◽  
Chethan Kumar Gangadhara ◽  
Maharudresh Aralikatte Chandrashekhar
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Polymer Composites ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Sensitivity Factor ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Compression Behaviour ◽  
Yield Behaviour

Abstract Nanofillers can be added to polymers to improve their mechanical behavior. However, the yield behaviour of most polymer composites is influenced by strain rate. The majority of the research focused on the behaviour of polymer composites at high strain rates. This work aims to investigate how hydroxyapatite (HAP) and reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) nanofillers affect the mechanical properties of sulphonated polyetheretherketone (sPEEK) at low (tensile and compression behaviour) and high strain rates (compression behaviour). The thermal, mechanical, and energy absorption responses of sPEEK filled with HAP and varying mass fraction (Mf) of rGO (0.5%, 1%, and 1.5%) at different strain are studied in detail. The strong strain rate effect was seen in HAp and rGO loaded sPEEK composites. The strain rate sensitivity factor of sPEEK-HAP/rGO improved as the strain rate increased, but decreased when the Mf of rGO increased. Under low strain rate compression, HAp and rGO loaded sPEEK absorbed more energy at Mf about 4%. SEM micrography was used to study the microstructures of the fractured interfaces of the components, revealing that the HAp and sPEEK materials formed a good compatibility in presence of rGO.

Nonlinear Analysis Techniques for Shear Band Formation at High Strain-Rates

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3S) ◽  
pp. S82-S94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios E. Tzavaras
Keyword(s):  
Strain Rate ◽  
Shear Strain ◽  
Nonlinear Analysis ◽  
Strain Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Strain Softening ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Analysis Techniques

One of the most striking manifestations of instability in solid mechanics is the localization of shear strain into narrow bands during high speed, plastic deformations of metals. According to one theory, the formation of shear bands is attributed to effective strain-softening response, which results at high strain rates as the net outcome of the influence of thermal softening on the, normally, strain-hardening response of metals. Our objective is to review some of the insight obtained by applying nonlinear analysis techniques on simple models of nonlinear partial differential equations simulating this scenario for instability. First, we take up a simple system, intended as a paradigm, that describes isothermal shear deformations of a material exhibiting strain softening and strain-rate sensitivity. As it turns out, for moderate amounts of strain softening strain-rate sensitivity exerts a dissipative effect and stabilizes the motion. However, once a threshold is exceeded, the response becomes unstable and shear strain localization occurs. Next, we present extensions of these results to situations where explicit thermal effects are taken into account.

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