Rough Contact Between Elastically and Geometrically Identical Curved Bodies

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Bryant ◽  
L. M. Keer

Surface and subsurface stresses and displacements are obtained when two geometrically and elastically identical rough bodies are pressed together by normal and tangential loads. The theories of Cattaneo and Mindlin, who introduce zones of slip and stick within an elliptical contact area, are used. Von Mises yield criterion and maximum principle tensile stresses are used as failure criteria to assess potential failure due to shear or brittle fracture.

Author(s):  
Xiaoben Liu ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Mengying Xia ◽  
Yanfei Chen ◽  
Kai Wu ◽  
...  

Pipelines in service always experience complicated loadings induced by operational and environmental conditions. Flood is one of the common natural hazard threats for buried steel pipelines. One exposed river crossing X70 gas pipeline induced by flood erosion was used as a prototype for this study. A mechanical model was established considering the field loading conditions. Morison equations were adopted to calculate distributional hydrodynamic loads on spanning pipe caused by flood flow. Nonlinear soil constraint on pipe was considered using discrete nonlinear soil springs. An explicit solution of bending stiffness for pipe segment with casing was derived and applied to the numerical model. The von Mises yield criterion was used as failure criteria of the X70 pipe. Stress behavior of the pipe were analyzed by a rigorous finite element model established by the general-purpose Finite-Element package ABAQUS, with 3D pipe elements and pipe-soil interaction elements simulating pipe and soil constraints on pipe, respectively. Results show that, the pipe is safe at present, as the maximum von Mises stress in pipe with the field parameters is 185.57 MPa. The critical flow velocity of the pipe is 5.8 m/s with the present spanning length. The critical spanning length of the pipe is 467 m with the present flow velocity. The failure pipe sections locate at the connection point of the bare pipe and the pipe with casing or the supporting point of the bare pipe on riverbed.


Author(s):  
Shaobiao Cai ◽  
Bharat Bhushan

A numerical three-dimensional contact model is presented to investigate the contact behavior of multilayered elastic-perfectly plastic solids with rough surfaces. The surface displacement and contact pressure distributions are obtained based on the variational principle with fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based scheme. Von Mises yield criterion is used to determine the onset of yield. The effective hardness is modeled and plays role when the local displacement meet the maximum displacement criterion. Simulations are performed to obtain the contact pressures, fractional total contact area, fractional plastic contact area, and surface/subsurface stresses. These contact statistics are analyzed to study the effects of the layer-to-substrate ratios of stiffness and hardness, surface roughness, and layers thickness of rough, two-layered elastic/plastic solids. The results yield insight into the effects of stiffness and hardness of layers and substrates, surface roughness, and applied load on the contact performance. The layer parameters leading to low friction, stiction, and wear are investigated and identified.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Y. Li ◽  
S. Frimpong ◽  
W. Y. Liu

A simulator for analyzing the interaction between the oil sand terrain and a pipe wagon articulating (PWA) system has been developed in this paper. An elastic-plastic oil sand model was built based on the finite element analysis (FEA) method and von Mises yield criterion using the Algor mechanical event simulation (MES) software. The three-dimensional (3D) distribution of the stress, strain, nodal displacement, and deformed shape of the oil sands was animated at an environmental temperature of 25°C. The 3D behavior of the oil sand terrain was investigated with different loading conditions. The effect of the load and contact area on the stress and nodal displacement was analyzed, respectively. The results indicate that both the max stress and max nodal displacement increase with the load varying from 0 to N and decrease with the contact area varying from 2 to 10 m2. The method presented in this paper forms the basis for evaluating the bearing capacity of oil sand ground.


Author(s):  
J. Zou ◽  
M. Waelti ◽  
A. Bowman ◽  
J. Marchetti ◽  
C. H. Mastrangelo

A finite element analysis (FEA) method used to determine the limits of package failure criteria is described. The failure criteria for the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) packages presented here include von Mises, Mohr’s theory, and micro-crack phenomena. In addition, we explore the limits of micro-scale failure criteria on brittle MEMS assemblies. The paper describes stress source identification methods and failure mechanisms for packaged assemblies that can guide MEMS package designers to reduce potential failure modes and improve reliability.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Song Zhang ◽  
Leon M. Keer

The contact between a power-law hardening elastic–plastic sphere and a rigid flat under combined normal and tangential loads in full stick is studied in this work. The displacement-driven loading is used since the frictional contact problems under the displacement-driven loading are widespread in the fields of metal forming and orthogonal cutting. The loading process is as follows: First, a normal displacement-driven loading is imposed on the rigid flat and kept constant; then, an additional tangential displacement-driven loading is applied to the rigid flat. The elastic–plastic contact behavior in presliding is investigated with a proposed finite element (FE) model, including the tangential force, the von Mises stress, the normal force, the contact pressure, and the contact area. The effect of the strain-hardening exponent on contact behavior is considered. It is seen that the tangential force increases nonlinearly with the increase of the tangential displacement, exhibiting gradual stiffness reduction which implies that the junction becomes more plastic. The von Mises stresses moves along the direction of the tangential load, while the maximum stress moves to the contact surface from the below. The normal force diminishes as the tangential load increases, and more obviously for the lower hardening exponent cases. The contact pressure also decreases more significantly for the lower hardening exponent cases. In addition, smaller exponents result in a greater increase of the contact area. The empirical expressions of the tangential force and the contact area in the tangential loading process are also proposed by fitting to the FE results.


Author(s):  
Peihua Jing ◽  
Tariq Khraishi ◽  
Larissa Gorbatikh

In this work, closed-form analytical solutions for the plasticity zone shape at the lip of a semi-infinite crack are developed. The material is assumed isotropic with a linear elastic-perfectly plastic constitution. The solutions have been developed for the cases of plane stress and plane strain. The three crack modes, mode I, II and III have been considered. Finally, prediction of the plasticity zone extent has been performed for both the Von Mises and Tresca yield criterion. Significant differences have been found between the plane stress and plane strain conditions, as well as between the three crack modes’ solutions. Also, significant differences have been found when compared to classical plasticity zone calculations using the Irwin approach.


1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Robinson ◽  
C S Lim ◽  
R Kitching

One of the requirements of the two criteria method of safety assessment of a pressure vessel with a defect is an estimate of the plastic limit pressure. Here the defect is in a spherical shell close to its junction with a protruding radial cylindrical branch. The defect is assumed to be an axisymmetric circumferential slot of uniform depth on the outer surface of the shell. Lower bounds to the limit pressure are calculated for a wide range of geometries. The material is assumed to obey the von Mises yield criterion and a non-linear programming method is used to give optimum lower bounds. Data is supplied for spherical shell radius to thickness ratios from 25 to 100, nozzle radius to vessel radius ratios from 0 to 0.4, nozzle to vessel thickness ratios from 0.25 to 1.0 and ligament thickness to vessel thicknesses (ligament efficiencies) of 0 to 1. Slot widths vary from the significant to the infinitesimal, where it becomes a crack. Vessels of some proportions were shown to have their limit pressures reduced only a little by very low ligament efficiencies.


2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Budden ◽  
Y Lei

Limit loads for a thick-walled cylinder with an internal or external fully circumferential surface crack under pure axial load are derived on the basis of the von Mises yield criterion. The solutions reproduce the existing thin-walled solution when the ratio between the cylinder wall thickness and the inside radius tends to zero. The solutions are compared with published finite element limit load results for an elastic–perfectly plastic material. The comparison shows that the theoretical solutions are conservative and very close to the finite element data.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chen ◽  
Liangfeng Xu

A 2-D finite element model of the human temporomandibular joint (TMJ) has been developed to investigate the stresses and reaction forces within the joint during normal sagittal jaw closure. The mechanical parameters analyzed were maximum principal and von Mises stresses in the disk, the contact stresses on the condylar and temporal surfaces, and the condylar reactions. The model bypassed the complexity of estimating muscle forces by using measured joint motion as input. The model was evaluated by several tests. The results demonstrated that the resultant condylar reaction force was directed toward the posterior side of the eminence. The contact stresses along the condylar and temporal surfaces were not evenly distributed. Separations were found at both upper and lower boundaries. High tensile stresses were found at the upper boundaries. High tensile stresses were found at the upper boundary of the middle portion of the disk.


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