The Bauschinger effect (BE) in single crystals of Hadfield manganese steel (Fe, 12.3Mn, 1.0C in wt pct) was studied for three crystallographic orientations, [111], [123], and [001]. Both forward tensionreverse compression (FT/RC) and forward compression-reverse tension (FC/RT) loading schemes were used to investigate the role of deformation history on the BE. The evolution of stress-strain resp...

The comprehension of the anisotropy impacts on mechanical properties of the rolled steel sheets was investigated using a non-quadratic anisotropic yield function. In this study, experimental and modelling determination regarding the behaviour of an industrial rolled sheet for a ferritic stainless low-carbon steel were carried out. The parameters of the associated yield equation, derived from th...

The quasi-static evolution of an elastoplastic body with a multi-surface constitutive law of linear kinematic hardening type allows the modeling of curved stress-strain relations. It generalizes classical small-strain elastoplasticity from one to various plastic phases. This paper presents the mathematical models and proves existence and uniqueness of the solution of the corresponding initial-b...

Owing the phase image method (Hytch, 1998), strain fields can be derived from HREM images. The method is here applied to the nanoscale precipitates responsible for hardening in Aluminum alloys. Since the method is a very sensitive one, we have examined the impact of several aspects of the image quality (noise, fluctuations, distortion). The strain field information derived from the HREM image a...

Three-dimensional deformation field in the vicinity of a blunt crack in a sheet of low-hardening material is determined using laser speckle and moir6 techniques. Experimental results are compared with the HRR singularity field. A zone of dominant three-dimensional effects is mapped out ahead of the crack tip. Strain contours, elastic plastic boundary and maximum shear strain trajectories are al...

A set of geometrically based FCC crystal slip-systems hardening inequalities is analytically investigated in (110) channel die compression for all lateral constraint directions between ð112Þ and ð1 1 1Þ, following previous analyses of the other two distinct orientation ranges in (110) compression. With all critical slip systems active, it is proved that these inequalities uniquely predict initi...

As emerging advanced construction materials, strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCCs) have seen increasing field applications recently to take advantage of its unique tensile strain hardening behavior, yet existing uniaxial tensile tests are relatively complicated and sometime difficult to implement, particularly for quality control purpose in field applications. This paper presents a n...

Abstraet--In this paper we present plane-stress crack-tip stress and strain fields for pressure-sensitive dilatant materials. A hydrostatic stress-dependent yield criterion and the normality flow rule are used to account for pressure-sensitive yielding and plastic dilatancy. The material hardening response is specified by a power-law relation. The plane-stress mode I singular fields are found i...

The springback phenomenon that occur in thin metal sheets after forming is mainly a stress driven problem, and the magnitude is roughly proportional to the ratio between the magnitude of the residual stresses after forming and Young’s modulus. An accurate prediction of residual stresses puts, however, high demands on the material modeling. A phenomenological plasticity model is made up of sever...

In the current paper the results of a numerical simulation that were verified by a well instrumented experimental procedure for studying the arching effect over a trapdoor in sand is presented. To simulate this phenomenon with continuum mechanics, the experimental procedure is modeled in ABAQUS code using stress dependent hardening in elastic state and plastic strain dependent frictional harden...