Modeling the Stress-Strain Curve of Elastic-Plastic Materials

The work is devoted to the formulation of mathematical models of plastic materials without hardening. A functional is proposed, the requirement of stationarity of which made it possible to formulate the differential equation of stress as a function of deformation. On the linear deformation section, a second-order functional is proposed; on the non-linear deformation section, a fourth-order functional is proposed. A range of boundary value problems is formulated, that ensure the continuity of the function at the boundary of the linear and non-linear sections of the deformation curve. The theoretical strain curve was compared with the samples of experimental points for materials: St3sp steel, steel 35, steel 20HGR, steel 08Kh18N10, titanium alloy VT6, aluminum alloy D16, steel 30KhGSN2A, steel 40Kh2N2MA, and showed a good agreement with the experiment. Thus, a variational model is constructed, that allows one to construct curve deformations of various physically non-linear materials, which will allow one to construct further mathematical models of the resource of such materials.