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Engineering stress strain curve
Stress
UTS: Ultimate tensile strength
Material
volume
remains
constant
Necking
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 =𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
①
③
②
Lecture 2
Hooke’s Law
• Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Thomas H Courtney, 2nd edition, Chapter 1
• Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction by David G. Rethwisch and William Callister, Chapter 6
What are the possibilities when we apply an external force on a material?
Elastic vs. Plastic deformation
F
Hooke’s Law:
𝒍 − 𝒍𝒐 = 𝜹𝒍 ~ 𝑭
F
𝜹𝒍 𝑭
~
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐
𝜺=
𝝈
𝑬
𝒍𝒐
𝑨𝒐
F
𝒍𝒐 + 𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝒐
𝟐𝑨𝒐
𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝒐 + 𝟐
𝟐𝒍𝒐
𝑨𝒐
𝟐𝒍𝒐 + 2𝜹𝒍
𝜺: Strain
E: Young’s Modulus
Measure of stiffness
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Shear Modulus
𝜹𝒍
𝜏
𝛾
𝒍𝒐
𝜏
𝑻𝒂𝒏 𝜸 ~ 𝜸 =
𝝉
𝑮
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Nonlinear elasticity
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Non linear and time-dependent elasticity
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Effect of temperature
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Stress
Engineering stress strain curve
Strain
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Universal testing machine
ASTM standards
Force is measured with a load cell
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Effect of Grip section on elongation
Location of the tensile specimen
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Measuring strain
Strain Gauge
Clip-on
Video non-contact
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Measuring strain
Video non-contact: Digital image correlation
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Engineering stress strain curve
Yield point
phenomenon
UTS: Ultimate tensile strength
Stress
Ductility =
Material
volume
remains
constant
Necking
②
𝒍𝒐
Yield strength
Ductility =
Percentage area
reduction
P: proportional limit
Toughness:
Area under the
curve
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 =𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
①
𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒄 𝒍𝒐
Slope: Young’s Modulus
③
Strain
Resilience is the capacity of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading, to have
this energy recovered.
Toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform before fracturing
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Brittle vs. Ductile materials
Resilience
𝑈 =
Toughness
𝜎𝑑𝜀
𝑈 =
1
𝜎 𝜀
2
𝑈 =
𝜎
2𝐸
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True stress & True Strain
As 𝒍𝒊 ↑, 𝑨𝒊 ↓
UTS: Ultimate tensile strength
Stress
𝝈𝑻 =
Material
volume
remains
constant
𝑭
𝑭 𝒍𝒊
𝒍𝒊
=
× =𝝈×
𝑨 𝒊 𝑨 𝒐 𝒍𝒐
𝒍𝒐
②
𝑭
𝑨𝒐
Engineering strain
𝝈𝑻 = 𝝈 × 𝟏 +
𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝒐
𝑭
𝑨𝒊
𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝒐
𝝈𝑻 = 𝝈 × 𝟏 + 𝜺
≠ Instantaneous strain
Instantaneous strain =
③
𝝈𝑻 =
Tension vs. Compression | 𝝈𝑻 vs. 𝝈
Necking
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 =𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
①
𝝈=
𝜺𝑻 =
𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝒊
𝒍𝟏 = 𝒍𝒐 + 𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝟐 = 𝒍𝟏 + 𝜹𝒍
𝒍𝟑 = 𝒍𝟐 + 𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
𝜹𝒍
+ + + + + ⋯ = ∑𝒊
𝒍𝒐
𝒍𝟏
𝒍𝟐
𝒍𝟑
𝒍𝟒
𝒍𝒊
Strain
𝒅𝜺𝑻 =
𝜺𝑻
𝒍𝒊
𝒅𝜺𝑻 =
𝟎
𝒅𝒍
𝒍
𝒅𝒍
𝒍𝒐 𝒍
𝜺𝑻 = 𝒍𝒏
𝒍𝒊
𝒍𝒐
𝜺𝑻 = 𝒍𝒏 𝟏 + 𝜺
𝒍𝒏 𝟏 + 𝒙 < 𝒙
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Work hardening
Stress
UTS: Ultimate tensile strength
Material
volume
remains
constant
What is
happening to the
rate of work
hardening?
Necking
Progressively more
difficult to work harden
an incipient instability
sufficiently to remove it
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 =𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
①
Validity of Ductility
beyond 𝜺𝑬𝒖 ?
③
②
𝜺𝑬𝒖
Strain
Work hardening (Strain hardening):
The positive slope of the stress-strain curve indicates that the material is made more resistant to plastic deformation by
virtue of the deformation itself; that is, the material work hardens
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Considère criterion
UTS: Ultimate tensile strength
Work
hardening
rate
𝑭 = 𝑨𝒊 𝝈𝑻
𝒅𝑭 = 𝒅𝑨𝒊 𝝈𝑻 + 𝑨𝒊 𝒅𝝈𝑻 = 𝟎
Material
volume
remains
constant
Necking
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 =𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
①
②
𝒍𝒐 𝑨𝒐 (𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕)=𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊
𝒅𝒍𝒊 𝑨𝒊 + 𝒍𝒊 𝒅𝑨𝒊 = 𝟎
𝒅𝒍𝒊
𝒅𝑨𝒊
=−
𝒍𝒊
𝑨𝒊
③
Strain
Criterion for necking
True stress
𝒅𝝈𝑻 𝒅𝒍𝒊
=
= 𝒅𝜺𝑻
𝝈𝑻
𝒍𝒊
True Stress
Stress
𝒅𝝈𝑻
𝒅𝑨𝒊
=−
𝝈𝑻
𝑨𝒊
𝒅𝝈𝑻
= 𝝈𝑻
𝒅𝜺𝑻
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Hollomon equation
𝝈𝑻 = 𝑲 𝜺𝑻 𝒏
n is the strain-hardening exponent (measure of work hardening behaviour) <1
K is the strength coefficient
Strain rate sensitivity
𝝈𝑻 = 𝑲′ 𝜺𝑻̇ 𝒎
𝜺𝑻̇ is the true strain rate
m is the strain rate sensitivity
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