DUCTILE FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINUM ALLOY 2024-T351 USING DAMAGE PLASTICITY THEORY

2009 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 267-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANG XUE ◽  
TOMASZ WIERZBICKI

This paper presents the calibration procedure for aluminum alloy 2024-T351 using a recently developed damage plasticity theory. The damage plasticity theory consists of a full three dimensional damage evolution law where the pressure sensitivity and the Lode angle dependence are included in a fracture envelope and the equivalent plastic strain is used as a time-like variable to determine the damage rate. Because of the coupled nature of the plastic strain and the damage, material parameters are calibrated from a parallel study of numerical simulations and experimental measurements. A set of 10 tests that cover a wide range stress states for both the hydrostatic pressure and the Lode angle are conducted in order to capture the fracture envelope in the interested stress range. The experimental setups include un-notched and notched round bars with three different notch radii, a doubly grooved flat plate and compressed cylinders of three different heights at two friction conditions. The detailed numerical and experimental procedure of calibration is demonstrated by using four of these tests. The accuracy of the calibrated material parameters is further assessed by the remainder of tests. Notch sensitivity in tensile round bars and the friction conditions in upsetting tests are discussed in detail. Good agreement in the tested load conditions is achieved for both the fracture patterns and the load-displacement curves.

Author(s):  
Stephan Wulfinghoff ◽  
Thomas Böhlke

We propose a visco-plastic strain gradient plasticity theory for single crystals. The gradient enhancement is based on an equivalent plastic strain measure. Two physically equivalent variational settings for the problem are discussed: a direct formulation and an alternative version with an additional micromorphic-like field variable, which is coupled to the equivalent plastic strain by a Lagrange multiplier. The alternative formulation implies a significant reduction of nodal degrees of freedom. The local algorithm and element stiffness matrices of the finite-element discretization are discussed. Numerical examples illustrate the advantages of the alternative formulation in three-dimensional simulations of oligo-crystals. By means of the suggested formulation, complex boundary value problems of the proposed plastic strain gradient theory can be solved numerically very efficiently.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Lin ◽  
Xingyu Bao ◽  
Yong Hou ◽  
Junying Min ◽  
Xinlei Qu ◽  
...  

Abstract Aluminum alloys have drawn considerable attention in the area of automotive lightweight. High strength aluminum alloys are usually deformed at elevated temperatures due to their poor formability at room temperature. In this work, the yield behavior of 7075 aluminum alloy in T6 temper (AA7075-T6) within the temperature ranging from 25 ℃ to 230 ℃ was investigated. Uniaxial and biaxial tensile tests with the aid of induction heating system were performed to determine the stress vs. strain curves and the yield loci of AA7075-T6 at elevated temperatures, respectively. Von Mises, Hill48 and Yld2000-2d yield criteria were applied to predicting yield loci which were compared with experimentally measured yield loci of the AA7075-T6. Results show that yield stress corresponding to the same equivalent plastic strain decreases with increasing temperature within the investigated temperature range and the shape of yield loci evolves nearly negligibly. The experimental yield locus expands with an increase of equivalent plastic strain at the same temperature and the work hardening rate of AA7075-T6 exhibits obvious stress-state-dependency. The non-quadratic Yld2000-2d yield criterion describes the yield surfaces of AA7075-T6 more accurately than the quadratic von Mises and Hill48 yield criteria, and an exponent of 14 in the Yld2000-2d yield function gives the optimal predictions for the AA7075-T6 at all investigated temperatures.


Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Ishikawa ◽  
Hitoshi Sueyoshi ◽  
Satoshi Igi

Limit state condition in the tensile failure for the strain based-design (SBD) currently considering is the point of maximum load which is evaluated by curved wide plate (CWP) testing or full scale pipe tensile testing. Maximum loading point is understood as the onset of instability of the structure. However, the material behavior controlling structural instability is not well understood since it includes many aspects of material response such as local strain concentration, ductile crack initiation and stable crack growth. In order to clearly specify the material property suitable for SBD, it is important to understand the fundamental behavior of the linepipe steels that leads to ductile crack initiation and following ductile tearing. In this paper, critical condition for ductile crack initiation was investigated by both small scale and large scale testing, notched round bar and wide plate testing, by using X80 and X100 linepipe steels and welds. Two different analytical procedures, equivalent plastic strain criterion and damage mechanical analysis, were applied to evaluate the local material conditions for ductile crack initiation. As was already verified by many other researches, the critical equivalent plastic strain can be used as the local criterion for ductile crack initiation which is not affected by specimen geometry. However, equivalent plastic strain is still macroscopic parameter that is not reflected by microscopic feature of the steel. Therefore, the Gurson-Tvergaard damage mechanical model was applied to further understand microscopic material behavior to ductile crack initiation. Material parameters for G-T model were carefully evaluated depending on the microscopic characteristics of each steel. By selecting appropriate material parameters, the critical condition for ductile crack initiation was estimated by the critical void volume fraction, which is independent of specimen geometry. Effect of microstructural characteristics on crack initiation was also investigated in this study.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 4408-4415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hjalmar Staf ◽  
Per Lindskog ◽  
Daniel C. Andersson ◽  
Per-Lennart Larsson

Abstract Parameters in a complex material model for powder compaction, based on a continuum mechanics approach, are evaluated using real insert geometries. The parameter sensitivity with respect to density and stress after compaction, pertinent to a wide range of geometries, is studied in order to investigate completeness and limitations of the material model. Finite element simulations with varied material parameters are used to build surrogate models for the sensitivity study. The conclusion from this analysis is that a simplification of the material model is relevant, especially for simple insert geometries. Parameters linked to anisotropy and the plastic strain evolution angle have a small impact on the final result.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Lin ◽  
Xingyu Bao ◽  
Yong Hou ◽  
Junying Min ◽  
Xinlei Qu ◽  
...  

Abstract Aluminum alloys have drawn considerable attention in the area of automotive lightweight. High strength aluminum alloys are usually deformed at elevated temperatures due to their poor formability at room temperature. In this work, the yield behavior of 7075 aluminum alloy in T6 temper (AA7075-T6) within the temperature ranging from 25 °C to 230 °C was investigated. Uniaxial and biaxial tensile tests with the aid of induction heating system were performed to determine the stress vs. strain curves and the yield loci of AA7075-T6 at elevated temperatures, respectively. Von Mises, Hill48 and Yld2000-2d yield criteria were applied to predicting yield loci which were compared with experimentally measured yield loci of the AA7075-T6. Results show that yield stress corresponding to the same equivalent plastic strain decreases with increasing temperature within the investigated temperature range and the shape of yield loci evolves nearly negligibly. The experimental yield locus expands with an increase of equivalent plastic strain at the same temperature and the work hardening rate of AA7075-T6 exhibits obvious stress-state-dependency. The non-quadratic Yld2000-2d yield criterion describes the yield surfaces of AA7075-T6 more accurately than the quadratic von Mises and Hill48 yield criteria, and an exponent of 14 in the Yld2000-2d yield function gives the optimal predictions for the AA7075-T6 at all investigated temperatures.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Lin ◽  
Xingyu Bao ◽  
Yong Hou ◽  
Junying Min ◽  
Xinlei Qu ◽  
...  

Abstract Aluminum alloys have drawn considerable attention in the area of automotive lightweight. High strength aluminum alloys are usually deformed at elevated temperatures due to their poor formability at room temperature. In this work, the yield behavior of 7075 aluminum alloy in T6 temper (AA7075-T6) within the temperature ranging from 20 ℃ to 230 ℃ was investigated. Uniaxial and biaxial tensile tests with the aid of induction heating system were performed to determine the stress vs. strain curves and the yield loci of AA7075-T6 at elevated temperatures, respectively. Von Mises, Hill48 and Yld2000-2d yield criteria were applied to predicting yield loci which were compared with experimentally measured yield loci of the AA7075-T6. Results show that yield stress corresponding to the same equivalent plastic strain decreases with increasing temperature within the investigated temperature range and the shape of yield loci evolves nearly negligibly. The experimental yield locus expands with an increase of equivalent plastic strain at the same temperature and the work hardening rate of AA7075-T6 exhibits obvious stress-state-dependency. The non-quadratic Yld2000-2d yield criterion describes the yield surfaces of AA7075-T6 more accurately than the quadratic von Mises and Hill48 yield criteria, and an exponent of 14 in the Yld2000-2d yield function gives the optimal predictions for the AA7075-T6 at all investigated temperatures.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianye Gao ◽  
Tao He ◽  
Yuanming Huo ◽  
Miao Song ◽  
Tingting Yao ◽  
...  

AbstractDuctile fracture of metal often occurs in the plastic forming process of parts. The establishment of ductile fracture criterion can effectively guide the selection of process parameters and avoid ductile fracture of parts during machining. The 3D ductile fracture envelope of AA6063-T6 was developed to predict and prevent its fracture. Smooth round bar tension tests were performed to characterize the flow stress, and a series of experiments were conducted to characterize the ductile fracture firstly, such as notched round bar tension tests, compression tests and torsion tests. These tests cover a wide range of stress triaxiality (ST) and Lode parameter (LP) to calibrate the ductile fracture criterion. Plasticity modeling was performed, and the predicted results were compared with corresponding experimental data to verify the plasticity model after these experiments. Then the relationship between ductile fracture strain and ST with LP was constructed using the modified Mohr–Coulomb (MMC) model and Bai-Wierzbicki (BW) model to develop the 3D ductile fracture envelope. Finally, two ductile damage models were proposed based on the 3D fracture envelope of AA6063. Through the comparison of the two models, it was found that BW model had better fitting effect, and the sum of squares of residual error of BW model was 0.9901. The two models had relatively large errors in predicting the fracture strain of SRB tensile test and torsion test, but both of the predicting error of both two models were within the acceptable range of 15%. In the process of finite element simulation, the evolution process of ductile fracture can be well simulated by the two models. However, BW model can predict the location of fracture more accurately than MMC model.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 875
Author(s):  
Jie Wu ◽  
Yuri Hovanski ◽  
Michael Miles

A finite element model is proposed to investigate the effect of thickness differential on Limiting Dome Height (LDH) testing of aluminum tailor-welded blanks. The numerical model is validated via comparison of the equivalent plastic strain and displacement distribution between the simulation results and the experimental data. The normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values are proposed as a means of quantifying the influence of thickness differential for a variety of different ratios. Increasing thickness differential was found to decrease the normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values, this providing an evaluation of blank formability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Vittorio Scardaci ◽  
Giuseppe Compagnini

Laser scribing has been proposed as a fast and easy tool to reduce graphene oxide (GO) for a wide range of applications. Here, we investigate laser reduction of GO under a range of processing and material parameters, such as laser scan speed, number of laser passes, and material coverage. We use Raman spectroscopy for the characterization of the obtained materials. We demonstrate that laser scan speed is the most influential parameter, as a slower scan speed yields poor GO reduction. The number of laser passes is influential where the material coverage is higher, producing a significant improvement of GO reduction on a second pass. Material coverage is the least influential parameter, as it affects GO reduction only under restricted conditions.


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