Papers by Keyword: Viscoplastic

Abstract: Under cyclic thermomechanical loading conditions, various damage mechanisms such as strain accumulation, creep cavitation, ageing, fatigue surface cracking etc. may take place in the material of a gas turbine blade. Depending on the loading conditions, all these effects can contribute to reduce the lifetime of the component. Subject of the present work is the development of a material model to describe the mechanical effects mentioned above, as well as the development of a lifetime model able to discriminate the different damage mechanisms.

Abstract: The accurate prediction of welding distortion is an important requirement for the industry in order to allow the definition of robust process parameters without the need to perform expensive experiments. Many models have been developed in the past decades in order to improve prediction. Assumptions are made to make the models tractable; however, the consequences are rarely discussed. One example for such an assumption is the strain hardening model, which is often a choice between either kinematic or isotropic hardening. This paper presents the results of tensile tests for DP600 performed from room temperature up to one thousand degrees and for different strain-rates. In order to employ a mixed isotropic-kinematic hardening model, the fractions of each hardening contribution have been determined by means of bend testing. The welding distortion of a DP600 overlap joint has been simulated and it is shown that such a mixed-hardening model results in more accurate and reliable results.

Abstract: The school of aerospace of Tsinghua University has started a project to develop new kind of stratospheric balloons for earth observation. These balloons will be designed to stand in the same position during a few days at 20 kilometers of altitude. To reach this goal, the first step is to select adapted materials for the balloon envelope. The materials for stratospheric balloons application should have specific properties adapted to the environment such as mechanical, thermo-optical, and permeability properties. Thus, we have asked a material manufacture company to develop and manufacture a material adapted to our application. In this paper, we will present the first results concerning the mechanical properties of the material. Experimental facilities have been developed to test the mechanical behavior of the materials at room and low temperature. The future development of the project will be to identify behavior law adapted to our material that fits with the experimental results.

Abstract: There have been diverse fatigue models and approaches to properly estimate solder joint reliability. However, it is one of the most difficult problems to determine which solder constitutive models and fatigue models can be applied best. In this paper, both viscoplastic and elastic-plastic-creep solder constitutive models could be utilized to calculate accumulated inelastic response under 208 K to 423 K(-65 °C to 150 °C) thermal cycling condition. And two different fatigue models, Darveaux and creep-fatigue model were applied to find solder joints fatigue life for flip chip assembly. Moreover, each fatigue life was compared to experimental result for the validation of finite element analysis. The actual number of cycles to failure was obtained from cross sectional view of the package with SEM.