Papers by Keyword: Conical Indenter

Abstract: Based on a series of tests and elastic-plastic contact finite element analyses, a sharp indentation method for predicting the constitutive relationship of metallic materials was presented. Dependent on the dimensionless linear relationship which is independent of the hardening index n, a forecasting formula of constitutive parameters can be gotten and its form is much terser. The test results and finite element calculations show that, the predicted stress-strain curves are in agreement with the uniaxial tensile test results. The validity and precision of this method was certified by in-dentation tests on kinds of different materials.

Abstract: An indentation method to determine equi-biaxial residual stress is proposed by examining the data from the incremental plasticity theory based FE analyses. We found that hardness is strongly dependent of the magnitude and sign of residual stress and material properties. We then selected some normalized parameters minimally affected by material properties and tip radius. With numerical regressions of the data obtained, we proposed new formulae for residual stress evaluation. The new approach provides a substantial enhancement in accuracy compared with the prior methods.