General Bounding Theorems for the Quasi-Static Deformation of a Body of Inelastic Material, With Applications to Metallic Creep

1974 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 947-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. S. Ponter

General displacement and work bounds are derived for the small-deflection quasi-static deformation of a body composed of a material which exhibits both elastic and inelastic strains. The bounds are described in terms of functional properties of the constitutive relationships. The results are specialized to an elastic/perfectly plastic and nonlinear viscous material and known results are recovered. Special emphasis is given to problems associated with the analysis of creep deformation of metallic structures.

1973 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. S. Ponter

In earlier papers [13, 14] displacement and deformation bounds were derived for a structure composed of an elastic, perfectly plastic, time-hardening viscous material. Here the upper and lower work bounds are discussed for a body subject to cyclic loading. It is shown that the optimal bounds may be interpreted as the asymptotic states when the cycle time is very small and very large compared with a characteristic time of the material. The time scales which occur in practice are discussed, and a simple worked example is presented.


2000 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-431
Author(s):  
N. Yoshida ◽  
T. Nonaka

Analytical study is made of an elastic-perfectly plastic bar under repeated axial loading. A previous formulation on a pin-ended bar is extended here to include the effects of load eccentricity and rotational constraint at the bar ends. Basic equations are derived, based on the assumptions of planar and small deflection, and of symmetry with respect to the bar center. The end spring is allowed to yield. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the application of the basic equations, and adequacy is shown for any specified history of axial displacement. Diagrammatical representation of state variation provides a better understanding of the hysteretic behavior as well as the applicability of the basic equations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 519-526
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Nepelski

AbstractIn order to correctly model the behaviour of a building under load, it is necessary to take into account the displacement of the subsoil under the foundations. The subsoil is a material with typically non-linear behaviour. This paper presents an example of the modelling of a tall, 14-storey, building located in Lublin. The building was constructed on loess subsoil, with the use of a base slab. The subsoil lying directly beneath the foundations was described using the Modified Cam-Clay model, while the linear elastic perfectly plastic model with the Coulomb-Mohr failure criterion was used for the deeper subsoil. The parameters of the subsoil model were derived on the basis of the results of CPT soundings and laboratory oedometer tests. In numerical FEM analyses, the floors of the building were added in subsequent calculation steps, simulating the actual process of building construction. The results of the calculations involved the displacements taken in the subsequent calculation steps, which were compared with the displacements of 14 geodetic benchmarks placed in the slab.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Lees ◽  
J. Clausen

Conventional methods of characterizing the mechanical properties of soil and geogrid separately are not suited to multi-axial stabilizing geogrid that depends critically on the interaction between soil particles and geogrid. This has been overcome by testing the soil and geogrid product together as one composite material in large specimen triaxial compression tests and fitting a nonlinear failure envelope to the peak failure states. As such, the performance of stabilizing, multi-axial geogrid can be characterized in a measurable way. The failure envelope was adopted in a linear elastic – perfectly plastic constitutive model and implemented into finite element analysis, incorporating a linear variation of enhanced strength with distance from the geogrid plane. This was shown to produce reasonably accurate simulations of triaxial compression tests of both stabilized and nonstabilized specimens at all the confining stresses tested with one set of input parameters for the failure envelope and its variation with distance from the geogrid plane.


1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Castrenze Polizzotto

For a structure of elastic perfectly plastic material subjected to a given cyclic (mechanical and/or kinematical) load and to a steady (mechanical) load, the conditions are established in which plastic shakedown cannot occur whatever the steady load, and thus the structure is safe against the alternating plasticity collapse. Static and kinematic theorems, analogous to those of classical shakedown theory, are presented.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kulkarni ◽  
C. A. Rubin ◽  
G. T. Hahn

The present paper, describes a transient translating elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical finite element model to study 2-D frictional rolling contact. Frictional two-dimensional contact is simulated by repeatedly translating a non-uniform thermo-mechanical distribution across the surface of an elasto-plastic half space. The half space is represented by a two dimensional finite element mesh with appropriate boundaries. Calculations are for an elastic-perfectly plastic material and the selected thermo-physical properties are assumed to be temperature independent. The paper presents temperature variations, stress and plastic strain distributions and deformations. Residual tensile stresses are observed. The magnitude and depth of these stresses depends on 1) the temperature gradients and 2) the magnitudes of the normal and tangential tractions.


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 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Y. Wang

A thin ring is crushed between two rigid planes. Due to plastic deformation the ring does not recover its original shape when the compression is removed. For an elastic-perfectly plastic flexural material, the ring undergoes two to five different stages. The mathematical problem is formulated and solved by exact numerical integration and accurate analytical approximations.


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