Papers by Keyword: Constitutive Behaviour

Abstract: In hot forming processes, metallic materials often undergo a series of plastic deformation and heat treatments. Hot working parameters, including deformation temperature, strain rate, and strain, exert great impacts on hot deformation behavior of alloys. Work hardening (WH), dynamic recovery (DRV), dynamic recrystallization (DRX), phase transformation, and metadynamic recrystallization (MDRX) often take place, and affect hot deformation behavior of metallic materials. Therefore, a comprehensive investigation on the intrinsic interactions between microstructural evolution and hot deformation behavior is necessary. In this study, a novel unified dislocation-density based model is presented to characterize the hot deformation behavior of a nickel-based superalloy In the Kocks-Mecking model, a new softening item is proposed to represent the impacts of dynamic recrystallization behavior on dislocation density evolution. The grain size evolution and dynamic recrystallization kinetics are incorporated into the developed model. Material parameters of the developed model are calibrated by a derivative-free method in MATLAB toolbox. Comparisons for the experimental and predicted results confirm that the developed unified model can accurately reproduce the hot deformation behavior, DRX kinetics, and grain size evolution in wide scope of initial grain size, deformation temperature, and strain rate.

Abstract: In this investigation, the combined confinement effect of spacing of lateral ties, volume fraction of polyolefin fibres and fibre reinforced polymer(FRP) wraps was studied both experimentally and analytically from the point of deformability characteristics of concrete for seismic resistance. Low modulus synthetic fibers such as polyolefin based fibers, it is shown that polyolefin fibers with sufficient tensile strength can successfully enhance the mechanical properties of concrete. The mechanism of delaying and arresting the progressive internal cracking by the fibres can be made use in passive confinement of concrete. In this study the confinement effectiveness of GFRP wraps of single and double layer and polyolefin fibres of volume fractions 0.7% and 0.9% in addition to lateral ties of spacing 145mm and 75mm on concrete prisms of size 150 ×150 ×300 mm were investigated. Such concrete is termed as FRP confined fiber reinforced concrete(FRPCFRC).This paper presents an analytical model(profile) for predicting the constitutive behaviour of FRPCFRC based on the experimental and analytical results. A total of thirty nine prisms of size 150 ×150 ×300 mm were cast and tested under strain control rate of loading. The results of the testing demonstrate the behavioral differences between FRP confined concrete and FRP confined FRC and the ability of the synthetic macro fiber to be used as secondary reinforcement in performance based seismic resistance applications.

Abstract: In this investigation, the combined effect of spacing of lateral ties and volume fraction of polyolefin fibres was studied both experimentally and analytically from the point of deformability characteristics of concrete. Low modulus synthetic fibers such as polyolefin based fibers, it is shown that polyolefin fibers with sufficient tensile strength can successfully enhance the mechanical properties of concrete. The mechanism of delaying and arresting the progressive internal cracking from transition zone to the matrix by the fibres can be made use in passive confinement of concrete. Such concrete was termed as polyolefin fiber reinforced concrete (PFRC). In this study the confinement effectiveness of polyolefin fibres of volume fractions 0.3%,0.5%,0.7%,0.9% and 1.2% in addition to lateral ties of spacing 290mm, 145mm and 75mm on concrete prisms of size 150 ×150 ×300 mm were investigated. Such concrete is termed as confined polyolefin fiber reinforced concrete (CPFRC).This paper presents an analytical model(profile) for predicting the constitutive behaviour of CPFRC based on the experimental and analytical results. A total of seventy two prisms of size 150 ×150 ×300 mm were cast and tested under strain control rate of loading. The increase in strength and strain of CPFRC were used in formulating the constitutive relation. The results of the testing demonstrate the behavioral differences between plain and CPFRC and the ability of the synthetic macro fiber to be used as secondary reinforcement in seismic resistance applications.

Abstract: The low-temperature superplastic flow behavior of two lots of Ti-6Al-4V sheet with an ultrafine microstructure was modeled. One lot (Sheet A) had an equiaxed-alpha starting microstructure; the flow stress/flow hardening exhibited by this material was explained on the basis of the Bird-Mukherjee-Dorn constitutive equation. The other material (Sheet B), having a mixed equiaxed- and remnant-lamellar alpha microstructure, underwent flow softening, flow hardening, or steady-state flow depending on test temperature and strain rate. These behaviors were interpreted in the context of a dynamic spheroidization model. The apparent flow softening at the end of all of the flow curves was explained using a simple flow-localization model.

Abstract: The elasto-plastic behavior and the drawing limit of a kind of magnesium alloy tube were investigated based on the foundational theories of the larger deformation of material and continuum damage constitutive model. The corresponding finite element numerical algorithm was developed based on the constitutive model. The non-mandrel drawing limit graph according to the diameter at different tube thickness of an AZ31B tube with diameter 10mm at 250°C and drawing velocity 100mm/s was achieved, and safe & unsafe area got partitioned. The maximum damage value was evaluated to be 0.324 according to height reduction ratio limit and rigid-plastic FE analysis.

Abstract: Dynamic recrystallization, on which grain size of the final forging depends mainly, is one of the most important microstructure evolution processes in moderate-to-low stacking fault energy metals. In this paper, the process of dynamic recrystallization is simulated by numerical method. The paper first gives a visco-plastic model considering dynamic recrystallization in detail; secondly gives the applied finite element formulation and compiles an finite element program in Visual Fortran 6.5 based on the updated Lagrangian formulation rigid-plastic finite element; thirdly the material parameters are identified through inverse analysis, based on the compiled finite element program and the developed global optimization method; at last, the compiled finite element program is applied to simulate the microstructure evolution caused by dynamic recrystallization, the calculated result agrees with the experimental result relatively well.

Abstract: The microstructural evolution has been studied for hot rolling of a dual-phase steel with a lean C-Mn-Si chemistry. This study includes the investigation of austenite grain growth during reheating, constitutive behaviour and static recrystallization kinetics of austenite, and austenite decomposition during simulated run-out table cooling conditions. To develop and validate the microstructure models for these phenomena, experimental studies have been carried out in the laboratory using a Gleeble 3500 thermomechanical simulator. The hyperbolic sine relationship between flow stress and Zener-Hollomon parameter is employed to describe the constitutive behaviour. The Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov (JMAK) theory is used to predict the static recrystallization kinetics. Ferrite transformation start is described with an approach that considers early growth of corner nucleated ferrite. The fraction of ferrite transformed from austenite during continuous cooling is described using the JMAK approach in combination with the additivity rule. The ferrite grain size is quantified as a function of the transformation start temperature. The overall microstructure model has been validated based on a number of laboratory simulations of the entire hot strip rolling and controlled cooling process with an emphasis on industrially relevant run-out table cooling strategies.