On the Impact Behavior of a Material With a Yield Point

1949 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Merit P. White
Keyword(s):  
Yield Stress ◽  
Yield Point ◽  
Impact Behavior ◽  
Longitudinal Impact ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Static Yield ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Probable Nature ◽  
The Impact

Abstract An analysis of longitudinal impact tests that were made by Drs. D. S. Clark and P. E. Duwez at the California Institute of Technology on an iron and a steel with definite yield points is described. From this analysis is deduced the probable nature of the dynamic stress-strain relations for such materials. These appear to differ greatly from the static stress-strain relations, unlike the case for materials without yield points. As pointed out by Duwez and Clark, the upper yield stress for undeformed material is several times as great under impact as the static yield stress. The present analysis indicates that under impact, the material with a definite yield point is made harder at a given deformation, and ruptures at a higher (engineering) stress and smaller strain than when loaded statically. The critical impact velocity, defined as that at which nearly instantaneous failure occurs in tension, is discussed, and the factors upon which it depends are given.

THE STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP AND THE DYNAMIC YIELD STRESS IN ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUID UNDER A MODIFIED CONDUCTION MODEL

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (07n09) ◽  
pp. 1456-1462
Author(s):  
CHUNRONG LUO ◽  
HONG TANG ◽  
XIANGYANG GAO ◽  
JIANBO YIN ◽  
XIAOPENG ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Yield Stress ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Electrorheological Fluid ◽  
Dipole Approximation ◽  
Approximation Model ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Conduction Model ◽  
Dynamic Yield Stress ◽  
Static Yield ◽  
Dynamic Yield

By using a modified conduction model and the dipole approximation model respectively, we simulate the stress-strain curve and evaluate the dynamic yield stress through an ideal microstructure model of electrorheological fluid. The static yield strain is larger in our modified conduction model than in the dipole approximation model. Besides, the dynamic yield stress and static yield stress nearly linearly vary as volume fraction in the dipole model, while in our modified model they both exhibit a maximum at about volume fraction ϕ=0.45. Interpretation about these results is associated with the conduction effect and the inter-chain interactions.

Effects of Constitutive Parameters on Thickness of Phase Transformed Adiabatic Shear Band for Ductile Metal Based on Johnson-Cook and Gradient Plasticity Models

2006 ◽  
Vol 15-17 ◽  
pp. 609-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.B. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transformation ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Strain Hardening ◽  
Yield Stress ◽  
Thermal Softening ◽  
Flow Shear ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Static Yield ◽  
Flow Shear Stress ◽  
Static Yield Stress

Gradient-dependent plasticity where a characteristic length is involved to consider the microstructural effect (interactions and interplaying among microstructures due to the heterogeneous texture) is introduced into Johnson-Cook model considering the effects of strain-hardening, thermal softening and strain rate sensitivity. Effects of initial static yield stress, strain-hardening coefficient and exponent, strain-rate and thermal-softening parameters on the occurrence of phase transformation and the thickness of phase transformed adiabatic shear band (ASB) in deformed ASB are numerically investigated. Higher initial static yield stress, strain-hardening coefficient, strain-rate parameter and lower strain-hardening exponent lead to earlier occurrence of phase transformation (lower plastic shear strain). Effect of thermal-softening parameter on plastic shear strain corresponding to the onset of phase transformation is not monotonous. Transformed ASB is located at the center of deformed ASB since the position has higher temperature exceeding the temperature of phase transformation. The thickness of transformed ASB increases with decreasing flow shear stress and the increasing tendency becomes slow. For the same flow shear stress, the thickness of transformed ASB is wider for higher initial static yield stress, strain-hardening coefficient and exponent, strain-rate and thermal-softening parameters. Compared with classical elastoplastic theory applicable to completely homogenous material, gradient-dependent plasticity considering the microstructural effect predicts that phase transformation occurs earlier and that the thickness of transformed ASB changes with flow shear stress.

scholarly journals Processing-Induced Inhomogeneity of Yield Stress in Polycarbonate Product and Its Influence on the Impact Behavior

Polymers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingjie Xu ◽  
Huan Lu ◽  
Tenglong Gao ◽  
Weihong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Yield Stress ◽  
Impact Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Personal View: The barn owl — a specialist for studying sensory systems

Neuroforum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Fruit Fly ◽  
Barn Owl ◽  
Sensory Systems ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Personal View ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this personal view article, the impact of an auditory specialist, the barn owl, to our understanding of sensory processing, especially auditory processing, is discussed from the perspective of a long-lasting career. In times when research on model systems such as the mouse or the fruit fly, both generalists for most of the behaviors examined, celebrates big successes, one may ask what the work on animals occupying specialized niches, “specialists”, can contribute to advance our knowledge about sensory systems. A specialist in this context is an animal that occupies a certain ecological niche and shows corresponding adaptations in anatomy and physiology. This article presents a personal view on the impact of the work on such a specialist. In my article I shall focus on audition in the barn owl, a specialist for hunting by listening. I started my scientific career in 1979, working with houseflies, and have worked with barn owls since my time as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”, Pasadena, CA, USA) in 1985. My interest in specialists derived from my work as an ornithologist when I realized that adaptations like the long and curved bill of the curlew help animals to occupy certain ecological niches. I wanted to understand in a formal sense, and in comparison to engineering, how evolution shapes such specializations.

A baseline Antarctic GIA correction for space gravimetry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lambert Caron ◽  
Erik Ivins
Keyword(s):  
Mass Balance ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
California Institute ◽  
Glacial Cycle ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Mantle Viscosity ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

<p class="western"><span>Within the past decade, newly collected GPS data and geochronological constraints have resulted in refinement of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models for Antarctica. These are critical to understanding ice mass changes at present-day. A correction needs to be made when using space gravity for ice mass balance assessments as any vertical movements of the solid Earth masquerade as changes in ice mass, and must be carefully removed. The main upshot of the new Antarctic GIA models is a downward revision of negative ice mass trends deduced from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), resulting from a reduced GIA correction. This revision places GRACE inferred trend in mass balance within the 1-σ uncertainty of mass balance deduced by altimetry. Because uncertainties in Holocene ice history and the low viscosity rheology beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) continue to vex further improvement in predictions of present-day GIA gravity rate, more emphasis has been given to regional-scale GIA models. Here we use a Bayesian method to explore the gravimetric GIA trend over Antarctica, both with and without the impact of a late Pleistocene Antarctic ice loads, along with the contribution of oceanic loads. We call this model without loads associated with Antarctica a baseline for regional GIA models to build upon. We consider variations of the radial mantle viscosity profile and the volume of continental-scale ice sheets during the last glacial cycle. The modeled baseline GIA is mainly controlled by the lower mantle viscosity and continental levering caused by ocean loading. We find that the predicted baseline GIA correction weakly depends on the ice history. This correction averages to +28.4 [16.5–41.9, 95% confidence] Gt/yr. In contrast, with Pleistocene Antarctic-proximal ice included, the total modeled mass trend due to GIA is +73.7 [30.1–114.7] Gt/yr. A baseline GIA correction of 28.4 Gt/yr is of order 50% of the mean net mass trend measured during the period 1992-2017. The statistical analysis provides tools for synthesizing any regional Antarctic GIA model with a self-consistent far-field component. This may prove important for accounting for both global and regional 3-D variations in mantle viscosity.</span></p> <p class="western"><span>© 2020 California Institute of Technology.<br />Government sponsorship acknowledged. This work was performed at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cryosphere Science Program. </span></p>

Automated mineral analysis in TASK8

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-213
Author(s):  
William F. Chambers ◽  
Arthur A. Chodos ◽  
Roland C. Hagan
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Mineral Analysis ◽  
Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
Mineral Phase ◽  
Los Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
California Institute Of Technology ◽  
Mineral Phases ◽  
Letter Code ◽  
Institute Of Technology

TASK8 was designed as an electron microprobe control program with maximum flexibility and versatility, lending itself to a wide variety of applications. While using TASKS in the microprobe laboratory of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, we decided to incorporate the capability of using subroutines which perform specific end-member calculations for nearly any type of mineral phase that might be analyzed in the laboratory. This procedure minimizes the need for post-processing of the data to perform such calculations as element ratios or end-member or formula proportions. It also allows real time assessment of each data point.The use of unique “mineral codes” to specify the list of elements to be measured and the type of calculation to perform on the results was first used in the microprobe laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to optimize the analysis of mineral phases. This approach was used to create a series of subroutines in TASK8 which are called by a three letter code.

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