Analysis of Deformation Bands in Polyurethane Foams

Dragos Alexandru Apostol; Dan Mihai Constantinescu; Liviu Marsavina; Emanoil Linul

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.601.250

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Analysis of Deformation Bands in Polyurethane Foams

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Closed cell polyurethane foams with densities of 100, 160 and 301 kg/m³ were tested in compression at speeds of 1 and 5 mm/min. Digital image correlation (DIC) is used to determine the engineering characteristic curve, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio and the deformation bands that appear during deformation and prior to the final failure of the specimens. By using this procedure both global and local phenomena are observed and analyzed. While each specimen is compressed the damage behaviour of the foams is directly observed in different stages, as being in the linear elastic domain, in the plateau region, and in the densification region. Several observations, characteristic for each foam density are discussed. As damage mechanisms are different, DIC allows the direct monitoring of the formation of the deformation bands and their propagation till the final failure of the foams, as long as calculations of the local strains are possible. Maps of the vertical displacements and local Mises strains are presented and comments on the characteristics of the deformation bands are done.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 601)

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250-253

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Dragos Alexandru Apostol, Dan Mihai Constantinescu*, Liviu Marsavina, Emanoil Linul

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Bands of Deformation, Compression, Digital Image Correlation (DIC), Polyurethane Foams

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