Papers by Keyword: Strain Rate Sensitivity (SRS)

Abstract: Shear fracture (mode II) may be observed in concrete structures when subjected to confined or impact loading. Among the different techniques developed to investigate the shear strength of geomaterials, figures the Punch-Through Shear test (PTS test). It consists of a short cylinder with two cylindrical notches made on the lower and upper surfaces. Shear fracture is produced in the ligament due to the displacement of the central zone beside the peripheral zone. An experimental setup has been developed in LEM3 laboratory to measure the shear strength of concrete under quasi-static and dynamic loading. A high-speed hydraulic press allowed reaching strain-rates up to few per second. Steel and aluminium alloy confining rings have been used to induce a confining pressure in the fractured zone. Furthermore, radial notches have been performed in the specimen in order to deduce the radial stress at the ligament surface from the contact pressure between the confining ring and the outer surface of the specimen. The experimental results have been used to discuss the influence of free water and strain-rate on the shear behaviour of concrete.

Abstract: A theoretical model is developed to account for the effects of strain rate and temperature on the deformation behavior of ultrafine-grained fcc Cu. Three mechanisms, including dislocation slip, grain boundary diffusion, and grain boundary sliding are considered to contribute to the deformation response simultaneously. Numerical simulations show that the strain rate sensitivity increases with decreasing grain size and strain rate, and that the flow stress and tensile ductility increase with either increasing strain rate or decreasing deformation temperature.

Abstract: It is the aim of the present paper to quantify and visualise the grain size induced transition of the deformation mechanism in metal polycrystals from the conventional dislocation–dislocation interaction at large grain sizes to (probably) dislocation–grain boundary interaction in the “nano” region. Since both types of interaction are thermally activated, thermal activation analysis can be used to discriminate between them. For this purpose dynamic tensile tests with stress relaxation tests were performed on pure pulsed electrodeposited nickel with 140 nm grain size at temperatures between 4 and 320 K. The results clearly indicate the transition temperature to be around 77 K. A rather unexpected result is the existence of a second transition of the deformation mechanism, which is only observable at very low temperatures namely from the homogeneous deformation mode governed by conventional dislocation–dislocation interaction towards localized deformation by “catastrophic shear”.

Abstract: Severe plastic predeformation of crystalline materials leads not only to formation of a steady-state dislocation structure including low-angle boundaries, but also brings the high-angle boundary structure into a steady state. When the steady-state flow stress is high enough, the material becomes ultrafine-grained or even nanocrystalline. The change from coarse-grained to ultrafine-grained is accompanied by a distinct change in the steady-state deformation resistance that is measured after predeformation. This is explained by two opposing effects of high-angle boundaries, namely enhanced dislocation storage and accelerated dislocation recovery. The first one causes net hardening at high temperature-normalized strain rate Z (Zener–Hollomon), the second one net softening at low Z. This means that the rate-sensitivity of the flow stress is enhanced, which causes the paradoxon of enhanced strength at enhanced ductility. Tests with abrupt large changes of deformation conditions bring the strain associated with dynamic recovery into the focus. The results of such tests indicate that the boundaries, low-angle as well as high-angle ones, migrate under concentrated stress during deformation and thereby contribute to straining and recovery. The corresponding system of differential equations needed to model structure evolution and deformation kinetics on a semi-empirical basis is briefly discussed.

Abstract: The deformation characteristics of the WE54 magnesium alloy reinforced by 13% of SiC particles have been investigated in tension at elevated temperatures. Composite material was prepared by powder metallurgy technique. The strain rate sensitivity parameter m has been estimated by the abrupt strain rate changes (SRC) method. SRC tests and tensile tests with constant strain rate ( ) were performed at temperatures from 350 to 500 °C. Increased ductility has been found at high strain rates. The corresponding m value was 0.3. The activation energy Q has been estimated. Microstructure evolution has been observed by the light microscope and scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: The quasi-static and dynamic compression experiments of ultrafine-grained copper fabricated by equal channel angular pressing method were performed at temperatures ranging from 77 to 573K. The influence of temperature on flow stress, strain hardening rate and strain rate sensitivity were investigated. The results show that the flow stress of ultrafine-grained copper shows much larger sensitivity to testing temperature than that of coarse grained copper. However, the temperature sensitivity of ultrafine-grained copper to true strain is comparative weaker than that of coarse grained copper. For the ultrafine-grained copper, both the strain hardening rate and its sensitivity to temperature of ultrafine-grained copper are lower than those of its coarse counterpart. The SRS also displays apparent dependence on temperature. The activation volume for UFG-Cu is estimated to be on the order of ~10b3 in current experiment temperature. It is suggested that the dislocation-grain boundary interactions process might be the dominant thermally activated mechanism for UFG-Cu.

Abstract: Ultrafine-grained (UFG) commercially pure (CP) Ti with a grain size of about 200 nm was produced by ECAP up to 8 passes using route BC at room temperature. For ECAP processing a proper die set was designed and constructed with an internal channel angle Φ of 120° and an outer arc of curvature Ψ of 20°. Strain rate sensitivity of UFG CP-Ti and CG CP-Ti were investigated by compression tests in the temperature range of 298~673K and strain rate range of 10-4~100s-1 using Gleeble simulator machine. Evolution of the microstructure during compression testing was observed using optical microscopy (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Strain rate sensitivity value m of the UFG CP-Ti has been measured and is found to increase with increasing temperature and decreasing strain rate, and is enhanced compared to that of CG CP-Ti. Result of the deformation activation energy determination of UFG CP-Ti indicates that the deformation mechanism in UFG CP-Ti is correlated to the grain boundaries.

Abstract: Most ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials produced by severe plastic deformation (SPD) exibit only limited ductility which is correlated with the low strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of these materials. Recently, it was demonstrated that SPD is capable of increasing the room temperature ductility of aluminum-based alloys attaining elongations up to 150%, together with relatively high strain rate sensitivity. In the present work, additional results and discussions are presented on the effect of grain boundary sliding (GBS) and SRS on the ductility of some UFG metals and alloys. The characteristics of constitutive equations describing the steady-state deformation process are quantitatively analyzed for a better understanding of the effects of grain boundaries and strain rate sensitivity.

Abstract: Discontinuous yield of material as Jerky flow was explained. Then, the strain rate sensitivity (SRS) and instability criterion was given out. Some tests were carried out at constant stress rate, so Jerky flow is manifested as a discontinuity in the stress-strain curves in form of strain bursts. Finally, the dynamic behaviors of specimens during instability of thermal origin were simulated with COLSYS software, whose results are good with test ones.

Abstract: The strain rate sensitivity of Oxygen plasma treated carbon nanotube sol-gel coating Basalt and concurrent microstructural evolution investigated. Both the materials are strain rate sensitive and the change in index parameter of strain rate sensitivity with strain reflects the change in micromechanisms of deformation and mode of fracture. From the SEM micrographs, an increase in surface roughness can observed and the degree of fibrillation decreased after helium and oxygen plasma treatment. Contact angle analysis showed the treated Basalt filament had lower contact angles than the untreated one. Based on FTIR results, the change of wettability and surface energy is attributable to polar groups on the fiber surface introduced by the treatments. Deformation processes in the Oxygen plasma treated carbon nano tube sol-gel coating Basalt involved craze-tearing and brittle mode of fracture, while plasma treated carbon nano tube in nano-composites filaments predominantly characterized by wedge, ridge tearing, fibrillation and brittle fracture. Depend yield stress of the Oxygen plasma treated carbon nanotube sol-gel coating Basalt with strain rate follows Eyring’s equation.