Papers by Keyword: Impact Compression

Abstract: In order to clarify the relationship between the mechanical properties of synthetic quartz and the electromagnetic phenomena during its fracture, a series of uniaxial compression tests were carried out at quasi-static and dynamic rates. Not only the stress-strain curves but also the output of ferrite-core antenna located close to the specimens were measured in a shield box made of permalloy plates. Since the synthetic quartz has three characteristic axes, i.e. optical axis, electric axis and machine axis, the effect of loading direction on the mechanical properties and electromagnetic phenomena of quarts was also examined. The dynamic compressive strength was greater than those in static tests and there is strain-rate dependence in their strength of synthetic quartz. It was also found that there are not any remarkable differences due to the loading direction with respect to the intensity of electromagnetic waves measured in the dynamic compression tests, i.e. the electromagnetic phenomenon does not depend on the loading direction.

Abstract: The dynamic mechanical properties of oxygen free copper has been tested under the different strain rate (4700s-1~21000s-1) at the room temperature by split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB), the true stress-true strain curves has been obtained. Power-Law constitutive model and Johnson-Cook constitutive model have been built to fit the experimental result from SHPB test of oxygen free copper, meanwhile, the constitutive model can be applied to the simulation analysis of cutting process. The results show that the oxygen free copper is sensitive to the strain rate. In addition, the Johnson-Cook constitutive model predicts the plastic flow stress of the oxygen free copper more accurately than the Power-Law constitutive model at the high strain rate.

Abstract: The split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) technique is widely-used to describe the impact compressive behavior of different materials including metals. During the impact test, the specimen deforms in a wide range of impact strain rate from 10² to 10⁴ s^-1. It is a reason why the method is studied for many years even though the structure of the apparatus based on the SHPB is simple. Actually, the cylindrical specimens are widely used for a compressive test and it is clearly seen that stress measured by the test includes the increment of stress (an error) derived by friction effect between a specimen and pressure bars. Therefore, it is important that the measured stress should indicate similar value as the proper stress of the material by reducing friction effect during not only quasi-static but also the impact test. Various attempts to reduce a friction effect in past have been conducted. A method to reduce friction effect is in general a use of lubricants. However, it is ineffective because it can be considered that this method contributes to an attenuation of the stress wave for obtaining the stress-strain curve under impact loading. Thus, rise time of waves obtained by the experiment becomes longer compared with a case not to use lubricants. Recently, a study can be found using a ring specimen, however, the determined thickness of the specimen is quite thin and it can be considered that a buckling effect cannot be vanished. In this study, a use of hollow specimen is suggested to solve the problem related to reduce the friction effect by decreasing a contact area between a specimen and pressure bars instead of a cylindrical specimen. The compressive experiments at various strain rates are conducted by using a hollow specimen.

Abstract: In order to clarify the effect of strain rate and test temperature on the compressive strength and energy absorption of polyimide foam, a series of compression tests for the polyimide foam with two different densities were carried out. By using three testing devices, i.e. universal testing machine, dropping weight machine and sprit Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus, we performed a series of compression tests at various strain rates (10^-3~10³ s^-1) and at several test temperatures in the range of room temperature to 280 ̊C. At over 100 s-1, the remarkable increase of flow stress was observed. The negative temperature dependence of strength was also observed.

Abstract: Effects of high-speed deformation on age hardening and microstructural evolution behavior of 6061 aluminum alloys were studied. By affecting the high-speed impact compression (about 5 GPa) to the 6061 aluminum alloy plate in the state of quenching after the solution heat treatment, the maximum hardness became twice as high as the original hardness. Even after the impact compression, age-hardening was clearly identified both at 175 °C and 100 °C. TEM observation revealed that point defect clusters were distributed densely inside grains after the impact compression, possibly due to the effect of high-speed deformation. The point defect clusters observed were assumed to be stacking fault tetrahedra on the basis of high resolution TEM analysis. The point defect clusters and precipitates were both visible even after the peak-aged condition at 175 °C. The 6061 aluminum alloy specimen after the solution heat treatment, followed by the impact compression (8.0 GPa) and the peak-aged condition showed the highest hardness value (154 Hv) among the testing conditions selected in the present study.

Abstract: In this paper, an as-extruded Mg-10Gd-2Y-0.5Zr alloy was compressed at 3265 s^-1 and -20 °C using a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) machine. Details about the initial texture and the lattice parameters of the as-extruded alloy were obtained by pole figures combined by orientation distribution function (ODF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) Rietveld refinement method, respectively. It can be obtained that the maximum average orientation factor being 0.297 can be obtained at 45^o angled to the extruded direction that is the force axis, resulting in the fracture of the impact compressed sample along a plane orientated at an angle of ~45^o to the compression axis. Analysis of the fracture reveals that the fracture forms near the periphery of one face of the specimen and then penetrates into the bulk material subsequently meet near the other face. Even though the local shear deformation exists in the compressed sample, the fracture of the as-extruded Mg-10Gd-2Y-0.5Zr alloy compressed at 3265 s^-1 and -20 °C is not caused by forming the adiabatic shear band (ASB).

Abstract: In order to systematically study on dynamic mechanics character of granite, impact compression experiments and impact flattened Brazilian disc specimens of granite have been investigated with modified split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) experimental facility, curve about stress versus strain and other parameter at strain rates of 23.9/s～108.4/s were obtained from impact compression. The dynamic tensile strength and critical tensile failure strain at strain rates of 2.3/s～25.6/s were obtained from impact flattened Brazilian. The experimental result show that dynamic compression strength , elastic modulus and failure strain，dynamic tensile strength significantly increase comparing to quasi-static experiment, and the above mechanics parameter include dynamic strength etc will increase with strain rate increasing, granite have the character of impact harding and ductility enhancement. The failure degree of failure will increase with increasing strain rate under impact compression; the failure configurations of the specimens present an center splitting mode under impact flattened Brazilian experiments. Whether impact compression or impact splitting under strain rate including this paper ’s experiments, the relationship between the DIFC or DIFT and the logarithm of strain rate is linear.

Abstract: In order to systematically study dynamic mechanics character of reactive powder concrete (RPC), impact compression experiments and impact flattened Brazilian disc specimens of RPC have been investigated with modified split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) experimental facility using brass pulse shaper, curves about stress versus strain and other parameters at strain rates of 20.3/s~137.0/s were obtained from impact compression. The dynamic tensile strength and tensile failure strain at strain rates of 3.4/s~26.2/s were obtained from impact flattened Brazilian. For comparison, the quasi-static compress and split tension of RPC were obtained with an MTS 810 materials test system and CSS-88500 electron universal material testing machine.The experimental result show that dynamic compression strength , elastic modulus and failure strain,dynamic tensile strength and failure strain significantly increase comparing to quasi-static experiment, RPC have the character of impact harding and ductility enhancement. RPC exhibit excellent failure patterns at high strain rate. Whether impact compression or impact splitting under strain rate including this paper ’s experiments, the relationship between the DIFC or DIFT and the logarithm of strain rateis linear.

Abstract: In order to obtain the intrinsic stress – strain relationship by split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) impact compression system, two testing techniques to eliminate the frictional effect and hold the prescribed constant strain-rate are demonstrated. The extrapolation method eliminating frictional effect at the tool – specimen interface was exhibited. Several specimens with different height were used for changing the initial diameter / height ratio in the method, where the circular plates were laminated. In order to maintain the constant strain-rate during compression, the incident pulse was adjusted to elevate in accordance with the compression force, where the tapered cylindrical striker bar was applied. Test material is a fully annealed pure aluminum. The intrinsic stress – strain relationship at strain-rate of 1000 /s was determined and the strain-rate sensitivity was also determined. The numerical simulation of the SHPB impact compression system was also performed using the dynamic explicit finite element method. The additional evidence for these experimental techniques to accomplish the elimination of friction and the constant strain-rate was shown.

Abstract: This paper proposes new impact testing methods applicable to sheet metals both under tension and compression based on widely used split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) technique. Explicit dynamic finite element simulations by using LS-DYNA 3D are systematically conducted for several specimen clamping conditions to seek the appropriate methodologies to realize the two tests. For the tensile test, a method which can reduce stress oscillations that usually appear in the measured stress-strain curves is proposed and is devised to be used with SHPB technique. For the compression test, a candidate which can restrict buckling of the specimen is proposed. The method uses a special die-set sandwiching the sheet metal specimen which is simultaneously compressed without disturbing the planar stress wave to be propagated.