scholarly journals Three-Dimensional Constitutive Viscoelastic Model for Isotropic Materials

Author(s):  
Donald Picard ◽  
Mario Fafar
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (29) ◽  
pp. 4171-4186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Yang ◽  
Qian Tang ◽  
Shilong Wang ◽  
Tianguo Jin ◽  
Fengyang Bi

Resin infusion (RI) process has been widely used for manufacturing composite parts. The variation of preform thickness brings great difficulty to the three-dimensional simulation of the filling stage. To accurately simulate the preform thickness change and resin flow during resin infusion, precise preform compaction models and dynamically changing geometry models need to be adopted. At present, resin flow is usually considered as two-dimensional and simple compaction models are employed to simplify the simulation, which degrades the prediction accuracy seriously. In this paper, general equations to describe the resin flow in the changing thickness cavity are developed, and the viscoelastic model is adopted which can fully express the dynamic characteristics of the preform compaction. To avoid solving the coupled resin flow/preform deformation equations directly, the volume of fluid method and the dynamic mesh model are employed to implement the tracking of the flow front and updating of cavity geometry model. The resin storage and release induced by porosity variations are adjusted by a master-slave element method to ensure mass conservation. Two simulation examples are carried out to demonstrate the capability of the above approach. The applicability of the approach on arbitrary complex domains and sequential injection strategy is also verified.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachin Singh ◽  
Deepu Kumar ◽  
Mamilla Ravi Sankar ◽  
Kamlakar Rajurkar

Miniaturization of components is one of the major demands of the today's technological advancement. Microslots are one of the widely used microfeature found in various industries such as automobile, aerospace, fuel cells and medical. Surface roughness of the microslots plays critical role in high precision applications such as medical field (e.g., drug eluting stent and microfilters). In this paper, abrasive flow finishing (AFF) process is used for finishing of the microslots (width 450 μm) on surgical stainless steel workpiece that are fabricated by electrical discharge micromachining (EDμM). AFF medium is developed in-house and used for performing microslots finishing experiments. Developed medium not only helps in the removal of hard recast layer from the workpiece surfaces but also provides nano surface roughness. Parametric study of microslots finishing by AFF process is carried out with the help of central composite rotatable design (CCRD) method. The initial surface roughness on the microslots wall is in the range of 3.50 ± 0.10 μm. After AFF, the surface roughness is reduced to 192 nm with a 94.56% improvement in the surface roughness. To understand physics of the AFF process, three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) viscoelastic model of the AFF process is developed. Later, a surface roughness simulation model is also proposed to predict the final surface roughness after the AFF process. Simulated results are in good agreement with the experimental results.


1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Medri

This note presents a model suitable for the mechanical characterization of isotropic materials with different behavior in tension and compression. The model has been derived from the nonlinear elastic theory and elaborated to adapt it to the small deformation field; the constitutive relation may reliably correlate stress and strain fields even in three-dimensional elastic problems.


1985 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. T. Ting ◽  
Yijian Jin ◽  
S. C. Chou

When a two-dimensional elastic body that contains a notch or a crack is under a plane stress or plane strain deformation, the asymptotic solution of the stress near the apex of the notch or crack is simply a series of eigenfunctions of the form ρδf (ψ,δ) in which (ρ,ψ) is the polar coordinate with origin at the apex and δ is the eigenvalue. If the body is a three-dimensional elastic solid that contains axisymmetric notches or cracks and subjected to an axisymmetric deformation, the eigenfunctions associated with an eigenvalue contains not only the ρδ term, but also the ρδ+1, ρδ+2… terms. Therefore, the second and higher-order terms of the asymptotic solution are not simply the second and subsequent eigenfunctions. We present the eigenfunctions for transversely isotropic materials under an axisymmetric deformation. The degenerate case in which the eigenvalues p1 and p2 of the elasticity constants are identical is also considered. The latter includes the isotropic material as a special case.


Author(s):  
R. T. Shield

Three-dimensional stress distributions in hexagonal aeolotropic materials have recently been considered by Elliott(1, 2), who obtained a general solution of the elastic equations of equilibrium in terms of two ‘harmonic’ functions, or, in the case of axially symmetric stress distributions, in terms of a single stress function. These stress functions are analogous to the stress functions employed to define stress systems in isotropic materials, and in the present note further problems in hexagonal aeolotropic media are solved, the method in each case being similar to that used for the corresponding problem in isotropic materials. Because of this similarity detailed explanations are unnecessary and only the essential steps in the working are given below.


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