Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters

The load-displacement curve in indentation is widely used to extract elastoplastic properties of materials. It is believed that such a measurement is non-unique and a full stress-strain curve cannot be obtained with a sharp indenter or even plural and spherical indenters. By introducing a ratio of t...

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Main Authors: Ma, Z., Zhou, Y., Long, S., Zhong, X., Lu, Chunsheng
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2943
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author Ma, Z.
Zhou, Y.
Long, S.
Zhong, X.
Lu, Chunsheng
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Zhou, Y.
Long, S.
Zhong, X.
Lu, Chunsheng
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description The load-displacement curve in indentation is widely used to extract elastoplastic properties of materials. It is believed that such a measurement is non-unique and a full stress-strain curve cannot be obtained with a sharp indenter or even plural and spherical indenters. By introducing a ratio of the additional residual area to the area of a profile indenter, we proposed a new set of dimensionless functions. Based on these functions and finite element simulations, analytical expressions were derived between indentation data and elastoplastic properties. It is shown that this method can effectively distinguish highly elastic and plastic solids (Cheng and Cheng, 1999) and mystical materials (Chen et al., 2007), which provides a useful guideline for properly using the indentation technique to measure elastoplastic properties of materials with conical and pyramidal indenters.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-29432019-02-19T05:34:47Z Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters Ma, Z. Zhou, Y. Long, S. Zhong, X. Lu, Chunsheng Uniqueness Finite element simulation Indentation Mechanical properties The load-displacement curve in indentation is widely used to extract elastoplastic properties of materials. It is believed that such a measurement is non-unique and a full stress-strain curve cannot be obtained with a sharp indenter or even plural and spherical indenters. By introducing a ratio of the additional residual area to the area of a profile indenter, we proposed a new set of dimensionless functions. Based on these functions and finite element simulations, analytical expressions were derived between indentation data and elastoplastic properties. It is shown that this method can effectively distinguish highly elastic and plastic solids (Cheng and Cheng, 1999) and mystical materials (Chen et al., 2007), which provides a useful guideline for properly using the indentation technique to measure elastoplastic properties of materials with conical and pyramidal indenters. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2943 10.1016/j.mechmat.2012.07.006 Elsevier Ltd fulltext
spellingShingle Uniqueness
Finite element simulation
Indentation
Mechanical properties
Ma, Z.
Zhou, Y.
Long, S.
Zhong, X.
Lu, Chunsheng
Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title_full Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title_fullStr Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title_full_unstemmed Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title_short Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
title_sort characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: an improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters
topic Uniqueness
Finite element simulation
Indentation
Mechanical properties
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2943