Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Modeling of Rubber Bushing Subjected to Complex Loading

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Large Strain ◽  
Nonlinear Modeling ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Complex Loading ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Failure Initiation ◽  
Military Vehicles ◽  
Rubber Bushing ◽  
Hyper Elastic ◽  
Finite Element Procedure

A finite element procedure was used to analyze rubber components on track links of military vehicles for improving their life. The procedure includes consideration of material nonlinearity with the use of a hyper-elastic material model, geometric nonlinearities utilizing surface-to-surface contact interface, large deformation and large strain nonlinear solutions. The procedure was validated with available experimental data. Very good correlation was obtained. The procedure was then applied to analyze a two-lobe rubber bushing using a 3-D model and applying a complex loading sequence including installation of the bushing onto the track links, operative loading of a combined steady-state vertical and torsional load. Results provided detailed insight to the deformation and locations of highly stressed areas at which failure initiation and limiting life might occur.

scholarly journals How does static granular matter re-arrange for different isotropic strain rate?

2021 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 10001
Author(s):  
Stefan Luding
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Moduli ◽  
Large Strain ◽  
Granular Matter ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
State Variables ◽  
New States ◽  
Hyper Elastic ◽  
Particle Simulations

The question of how soft granular matter, or dense amorphous systems, re-arrange their microstructure under isotropic compression and de-compression, at different strain rates, will be answered by particle simulations of frictionless model systems in a periodic three-dimensional cuboid. Starting compression below jamming, the systems experience the well known jamming transition, with characteristic evolutions of the state variables elastic energy, elastic stress, coordination number, and elastic moduli. For large strain rates, kinetic energy comes into play and the evolution is more dynamic. In contrast, at extremely slow deformation, the system relaxes to hyper-elastic states, with well-defined elastic moduli, in static equilibrium between irreversible (plastic) re-arrangement events, discrete in time. Small, finite strains explore those reversible (elastic) states, before larger strains push the system into new states, by irreversible, sudden re-arrangements of the micro-structure.

scholarly journals A Three-Dimensional Ply Failure Model for Composite Structures

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurício V. Donadon ◽  
Sérgio Frascino M. de Almeida ◽  
Mariano A. Arbelo ◽  
Alfredo R. de Faria
Keyword(s):  
Composite Structures ◽  
Damage Mechanics ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Constitutive Law ◽  
Failure Model ◽  
Strain Rate Effects ◽  
Failure Initiation ◽  
Numerical Predictions ◽  
Failure Propagation

A fully 3D failure model to predict damage in composite structures subjected to multiaxial loading is presented in this paper. The formulation incorporates shear nonlinearities effects, irreversible strains, damage and strain rate effects by using a viscoplastic damageable constitutive law. The proposed formulation enables the prediction of failure initiation and failure propagation by combining stress-based, damage mechanics and fracture mechanics approaches within an unified energy based context. An objectivity algorithm has been embedded into the formulation to avoid problems associated with strain localization and mesh dependence. The proposed model has been implemented into ABAQUS/Explicit FE code within brick elements as a userdefined material model. Numerical predictions for standard uniaxial tests at element and coupon levels are presented and discussed.

Finite Element Modeling of Tires on Snow2

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Shoop ◽  
K. Kestler ◽  
R. Haehnel
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Mobility Model ◽  
Military Vehicles ◽  
Inelastic Material ◽  
Instrumented Vehicles ◽  
Three Dimensional Finite Element

Abstract Vehicle movement on unpaved surfaces is important to military, agriculture, forestry, mining, construction, and recreation industries. Because of the complicated nature of vehicle-terrain interaction, comprehensive modeling of off-road mobility is often done using empirical algorithms. The desire to incorporate more physics into performance models has generated great interest in applying numerical modeling techniques in a full three-dimensional analysis, accounting for the deformation of both the tire and the terrain. In this study, a three-dimensional finite element model was constructed to simulate a tire rolling over snow. The snow was modeled as an inelastic material using critical-state constitutive modeling and plasticity theory. The snow material model was generated from experiments on the mechanical deformation of snow and was validated using a plate sinkage test. The tire models represent a range of sizes accommodating light-truck and off-road military vehicles and were rolled on snow of various depths. The combined tire-terrain models were validated using force measurements collected with instrumented vehicles and with measured snow deformation. The model results were also compared to vehicle mobility predictions made using the winter algorithms of the NATO Reference Mobility Model. These comparisons illustrate the agreement between the finite element models and field measurements of motion resistance forces and snow deformation under the tire.

scholarly journals Variation of Passive Biomechanical Properties of the Small Intestine along Its Length: Microstructure-Based Characterization

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Dimitrios P. Sokolis
Keyword(s):  
Small Intestine ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Axial Direction ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Biomechanical Properties ◽  
Intestinal Wall ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Material Models ◽  
Hyper Elastic ◽  
Rat Tissue

Multiaxial testing of the small intestinal wall is critical for understanding its biomechanical properties and defining material models, but limited data and material models are available. The aim of the present study was to develop a microstructure-based material model for the small intestine and test whether there was a significant variation in the passive biomechanical properties along the length of the organ. Rat tissue was cut into eight segments that underwent inflation/extension testing, and their nonlinearly hyper-elastic and anisotropic response was characterized by a fiber-reinforced model. Extensive parametric analysis showed a non-significant contribution to the model of the isotropic matrix and circumferential-fiber family, leading also to severe over-parameterization. Such issues were not apparent with the reduced neo-Hookean and (axial and diagonal)-fiber family model, that provided equally accurate fitting results. Absence from the model of either the axial or diagonal-fiber families led to ill representations of the force- and pressure-diameter data, respectively. The primary direction of anisotropy, designated by the estimated orientation angle of diagonal-fiber families, was about 35° to the axial direction, corroborating prior microscopic observations of submucosal collagen-fiber orientation. The estimated model parameters varied across and within the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum, corroborating histologically assessed segmental differences in layer thicknesses.

Stresses in Ultrasonically Assisted Turning

2006 ◽  
Vol 5-6 ◽  
pp. 351-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ahmed ◽  
A.V. Mitrofanov ◽  
Vladimir I. Babitsky ◽  
Vadim V. Silberschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Ultrasonic Vibration ◽  
Vibration Frequency ◽  
Cutting Forces ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Process Zone ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Rate Sensitivity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Shear Stresses

Ultrasonically assisted turning (UAT) is a novel material-processing technology, where high frequency vibration (frequency f ≈ 20kHz, amplitude a ≈15μm) is superimposed on the movement of the cutting tool. Advantages of UAT have been demonstrated for a broad spectrum of applications. Compared to conventional turning (CT), this technique allows significant improvements in processing intractable materials, such as high-strength aerospace alloys, composites and ceramics. Superimposed ultrasonic vibration yields a noticeable decrease in cutting forces, as well as a superior surface finish. A vibro-impact interaction between the tool and workpiece in UAT in the process of continuous chip formation leads to a dynamically changing stress distribution in the process zone as compared to the quasistatic one in CT. The paper presents a three-dimensional, fully thermomechanically coupled computational model of UAT incorporating a non-linear elasto-plastic material model with strain-rate sensitivity and contact interaction with friction at the chip–tool interface. 3D stress distributions in the cutting region are analysed for a representative cycle of ultrasonic vibration. The dependence of various process parameters, such as shear stresses and cutting forces on vibration frequency and amplitude is also studied.

Management of Complex Loading Histories for Use in Probabilistic Creep-Fatigue Damage Assessments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Zentuti ◽  
J. D. Booker ◽  
R. A. W. Bradford ◽  
C. E. Truman
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Damage ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Complex Loading ◽  
Fe Model ◽  
Plant Component ◽  
Fatigue Lifetime ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Stress Components ◽  
Creep Fatigue

An approach is outlined for the treatment of stresses in complex three-dimensional components for the purpose of conducting probabilistic creep-fatigue lifetime assessments. For conventional deterministic assessments, the stress state in a plant component is found using thermal and mechanical (elastic) finite element (FE) models. Key inputs are typically steam temperatures and pressures, with the three principal stress components (PSCs) at the assessment location(s) being the outputs. This paper presents an approach which was developed based on application experience with a tube-plate ligament (TPL) component, for which historical data was available. Though both transient as well as steady-state conditions can have large contributions towards the creep-fatigue damage, this work is mainly concerned with the latter. In a probabilistic assessment, the aim of this approach is to replace time intensive FE runs with a predictive model to approximate stresses at various assessment locations. This is achieved by firstly modelling a wide range of typical loading conditions using FE models to obtain the desire stresses. Based on the results from these FE runs, a probability map is produced and input(s)-output(s) functions are fitted (either using a Response Surface Method or Linear Regression). These models are thereafter used to predict stresses as functions of the input parameter(s) directly. This mitigates running an FE model for every probabilistic trial (of which there typically may be more than 104), an approach which would be computationally prohibitive.

scholarly journals A Useful Manufacturing Guide for Rotary Piercing Seamless Pipe by ALE Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 756
Author(s):  
Ameen Topa ◽  
Burak Can Cerik ◽  
Do Kyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Maximum Stress ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Material Model ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Seamless Pipe ◽  
Ale Formulation ◽  
Good Agreement

The development of numerical simulations is potentially useful in predicting the most suitable manufacturing processes and ultimately improving product quality. Seamless pipes are manufactured by a rotary piercing process in which round billets (workpiece) are fed between two rolls and pierced by a stationary plug. During this process, the material undergoes severe deformation which renders it impractical to be modelled and analysed with conventional finite element methods. In this paper, three-dimensional numerical simulations of the piercing process are performed with an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) formulation in LS-DYNA software. Details about the material model as well as the elements’ formulations are elaborated here, and mesh sensitivity analysis was performed. The results of the numerical simulations are in good agreement with experimental data found in the literature and the validity of the analysis method is confirmed. The effects of varying workpiece velocity, process temperature, and wall thickness on the maximum stress levels of the product material/pipes are investigated by performing simulations of sixty scenarios. Three-dimensional surface plots are generated which can be utilized to predict the maximum stress value at any given combination of the three parameters.

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