In this study, tensile loading experiments are performed on notched steel bars at an average applied strain rate of 1s. Displacement fields are measured across the specimen by coupling digital image correlation (DIC) with imaging using high speed CCD cameras (4796 fps). Results from the experiments indicate the presence of local strain rates ranging from 0.1 to 10s in the notched specimens. The...

The engineering tension test is widely used to provide basic design information on the strength of materials and as an acceptance test for the specification of materials. In the tension test a specimen is subjected to a continually increasing uniaxial tensile force while simultaneous observations are made of the elongation of the specimen. The parameters, which are used to describe the stress-s...

Abstract A systematic comparison of the tensile and compressive response glass ceramic Macor, with zero porosity low density, is carried out by using flattened Brazilian disk cylindrical specimen from quasi-static to dynamic loading conditions. The experiments were performed on a screw driven Zwick machine an in-house built split Hopkinson bar synchronized high speed photographic system. Likewi...

It is known that the mechanical behavior of many hexagonal close-packed (HCP) materials sensitive to textural variations. In technologically important magnesium (Mg) alloys, anisotropic plastic behaviors and their dependence on different processing-induced textures have been reasonably well studied under relatively simple stress states. However, a detailed assessment rate-dependent microstructu...

In this paper, the tensile testing method at the intermediate strain rate is established and tensile tests of steel sheets for an auto-body have been performed to evaluate dynamic material properties. A high speed tensile testing machine has been developed for tensile tests at the intermediate strain rate. A simple jig fixture for gripping a specimen has been designed to diminish the load ringi...

In a tensile test of a bar or fiber formed from a transversely isotropic viscoelastic material, the initial motion in regions away from the clamps is a homogeneous uniaxial extension. If the applied tensile load is “tame” in the sense that it is given by a piecewise smooth function of time, then during the early stages of loading, the homogeneous extension of the specimen is also tame. It is, h...

AIM To evaluate the mechanical properties (ultimate tensile strength, elongation and hardness) of the commercially pure titanium (cp Ti) as casting and after ceramic firing cycles. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dumbbell-shaped specimens were prepared for the tensile strength testing. Disk-shaped cast specimens were used for microhardness testing. The ceramic firing cycles were made simulating a low f...

Abstract. The purpose of the Wedge Splitting Test (WST) is to generate stable mode I fracture crack along a pre-established path, and be able to measure the specific fracture energy parameter of the material GF. The test is performed on standard cylindrical notched specimens. In order to make decision on the optimal notch geometry for a specific rock test, a number of WST experiments were simul...

An empirical method of non-destructive testing of a material was developed using pulse transmission by acoustic emission transducers to determine plastic deformation of 304 stainless steel specimens. This was done by means of comparison of pulse signals detected in an undeformed section with the pulse signals detected after passing through the deformation zone in the specimens. The pulse signal...