• Title/Summary/Keyword: progressive deformation

Search Result 91, Processing Time 0.024 seconds

In-situ Observations of Lubricant Film Thickness Distribution in Mixed EHD Point Contacts

  • Hartl, M.;Krupka, I.;Liska, M.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
    • /
    • 2002.10b
    • /
    • pp.79-80
    • /
    • 2002
  • This paper presents an experimental study of the effect of rolling speed and surface roughness on the mixed elastohydrodynamic (EHD) lubrication characteristics for point contact formed between a real, random, rough surface, steel ball and smooth glass disc. The Thin Film Colorimetic Interferometry measurement technique has been extended to give detailed information about in-contact deformation of the microgeometry. It has enabled to derive the amplitude reduction curve that shows progressive recovering of ball roughness features with increasing speed.

  • PDF

Dynamic nonlinear member failure propagation in truss structures

  • Malla, Ramesh B.;Nalluri, Butchi B.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
    • /
    • v.9 no.2
    • /
    • pp.111-126
    • /
    • 2000
  • Truss type structures are attractive to a variety of engineering applications on earth as well as in space due to their high stiffness to mass ratios and ease of construction and fabrication. During the service life, an individual member of a truss structure may lose load carrying capacity due to many reasons, which may lead to collapse of the structure. An analytical and computational procedure has been developed to study the response of truss structures subject to member failure under static and dynamic loadings. Emphasis is given to the dynamic effects of member failure and the propagation of local damage to other parts of the structure. The methodology developed is based on nonlinear finite element analysis technique and considers elasto-plastic material nonlinearity, postbuckling of members, and large deformation geometric nonlinearity. The pseudo force approach is used to represent the member failure. Results obtained for a planar nine-bay indeterminate truss undergoing sequential member failure show that failure of one member can initiate failure of several members in the structure.

A structural study on mold EMBO equipment to minimize the influence on the bottom dead center displacement of precision high-speed press (정밀고속 PRESS 하사점 변위량에 영향을 최소화 하는 금형 EMBO 장치에 관한 구조 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Soo
    • Design & Manufacturing
    • /
    • v.10 no.3
    • /
    • pp.46-50
    • /
    • 2016
  • Laminate products for motor core are developed with a structure in which the importance of quality level and clamping force is influenced by the recent performance and safety of the product. It has been confirmed that the accuracy of the mold is emphasized, and that the accuracy of the tightening force produced by the stacked product for the motor core is greatly influenced by the change in the bottom dead center displacement of the aged high speed press. The reason why setting the mold, and test the effect of bottom dead center of high speed press is to improve product pull force in embossing process at mold. We have applied the system to minimize the effect on the damping displacement under the dynamical degree of the equipment by applying the emboss complement device which can test the influence and complement in the process.

Analysis of the shear failure process of masonry by means of a meso-scopic mechanical modeling approach

  • Wang, Shuhong;Tang, Chun'an;Jia, Peng
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
    • /
    • v.24 no.2
    • /
    • pp.181-194
    • /
    • 2006
  • The masonry is a complex heterogeneous material and its shear deformation and fracture is associated with very complicated progressive failures in masonry structure, and is investigated in this paper using a mesoscopic mechanical modelling, Considering the heterogeneity of masonry material, based on the damage mechanics and elastic-brittle theory, the newly developed Material Failure Process Analysis (MFPA) system was brought out to simulate the cracking process of masonry, which was considered as a three-phase composite of the block phase, the mortar phase and the block-mortar interfaces. The crack propagation processes simulated with this model shows good agreement with those of experimental observations by other researchers. This finding indicates that the shear fracture of masonry observed at the macroscopic level is predominantly caused by tensile damage at the mesoscopic level. Some brittle materials are so weak in tension relative to shear that tensile rather than shear fractures are generated in pure shear loading.

Discrete crack analysis for concrete structures using the hybrid-type penalty method

  • Fujiwara, Yoshihiro;Takeuchi, Norio;Shiomi, Tadahiko;Kambayashi, Atsushi
    • Computers and Concrete
    • /
    • v.16 no.4
    • /
    • pp.587-604
    • /
    • 2015
  • The hybrid-type penalty method (HPM) is suitable for representing failure phenomena occurring during the transition from continua to discontinua in materials such as concrete. Initiation and propagation of dominant cracks and branching of cracks can easily be modeled as a discrete crack. The HPM represents a discrete crack by eliminating the penalty that represents the separation of the elements at the intersection boundary. This treatment is easy because no change in the degrees of freedom for the discrete crack is necessary. In addition, it is important to evaluate the correct deformation of the continua before the crack formation is initiated. To achieve this, we implemented a constitutive model of concrete for the HPM. In this paper, we explain the implemented constitutive model and describe the simulation of an anchor bolt pullout test using the HPM demonstrating its capability for evaluating progressive failure.

Detection of edge delamination in surface adhered active fiber composites

  • Wang, Dwo-Wen;Yin, Ching-Chung
    • Smart Structures and Systems
    • /
    • v.5 no.6
    • /
    • pp.633-644
    • /
    • 2009
  • A simple method has been developed to detect the bonding condition of active fiber composites (AFC) adhered to the surface of a host structure. Large deformation actuating capability is one of important features of AFC. Edge delamination in adhesive layer due to large interfacial shear stress at the free edge is typically resulted from axial strain mismatch between bonded materials. AFC patch possesses very good flexibility and toughness. When an AFC patch is partially delaminated from host structure, there remains sensing capability in the debonded part. The debonding size can be determined through axial resonance measured by the interdigitated electrodes symmetrically aligned on opposite surfaces of the patch. The electrical impedance and modal response of the AFC patch in part adhered to an aluminum plate were investigated in a broad frequency range. Debonding ratio of the AFC patch is in inverse proportion to the resonant frequency of the fundamental mode. Feasibility of in-situ detecting the progressive delamination between AFC patch and host plate is demonstrated.

Effect of column loss location on structural response of a generic steel moment resisting frame

  • Rezvani, Farshad Hashemi;Jeffers, Ann E.;Asgarian, Behrouz;Ronagh, Hamid Reza
    • Steel and Composite Structures
    • /
    • v.25 no.2
    • /
    • pp.217-229
    • /
    • 2017
  • The effect of column loss location on the structural response of steel moment resisting frames (MRF) is investigated in this study. A series of nonlinear static and dynamic analyses were performed to determine the resistance of a generic frame to an arbitrary column loss and detect the structural members that are susceptible to failure progression beyond that point. Both force-controlled and deformation-controlled actions based on UFC 4-023-03 and ASCE/SEI 41-06 were implemented to define the acceptance criteria for nine APM cases defined in this study. Results revealed that the structural resistance against an arbitrary column loss in the top story is at least 80% smaller than that of the bottom story. In addition, it was found that the dynamic increase factor (DIF) at the failure point is at most 1.13.

A study on the deformation of thickness by drawing process of upper housing products (Upper housing 제품의 드로잉공정에 의한 두께 변형 고찰)

  • Lee, Beom-Soon;Kim, Ok-Hwan
    • Design & Manufacturing
    • /
    • v.13 no.1
    • /
    • pp.31-35
    • /
    • 2019
  • For manufacturing upper housing product of mechanical control valve, the progressive drawing process was conducted experimental. Then, the center of the product was cut to measure the thickness of the product. As a result, the following conclusions were obtained. By means of a stand-alone pad provided with sufficient pressure, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of wrinkles in the die pad product of the drawing process. As a result of the experiment, it was considered that the flange bottom of the product and the lower edge of the product are made thick in thickness, the top edge and the top surface are thin. It is considered that this is due to the size and roughness of the entrance edge radius of the die in the drawing process, and the inflow of the material by the die pad.

Failure simulation of nuclear pressure vessel under severe accident conditions: Part II - Failure modeling and comparison with OLHF experiment

  • Eui-Kyun Park;Jun-Won Park;Yun-Jae Kim;Yukio Takahashi;Kukhee Lim;Eung Soo Kim
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
    • /
    • v.55 no.11
    • /
    • pp.4134-4145
    • /
    • 2023
  • This paper proposes strain-based failure model of A533B1 pressure vessel steel to simulate failure, followed by application to OECD lower head failure (OLHF) test simulation for experimental validation. The proposed strain-based failure model uses simple constant and linear functions based on physical failure modes with the critical strain value determined either using the lower bound of true fracture strain or using the average value of total elongation depending on the temperature. Application to OECD Lower Head Failure (OLHF) tests shows that progressive deformation, failure time and failure location can be well predicted.

Failure simulation of nuclear pressure vessel under severe accident conditions: Part I - Material constitutive modeling

  • Eui-Kyun Park;Ji-Su Kim;Jun-Won Park;Yun-Jae Kim;Yukio Takahashi;Kukhee Lim
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
    • /
    • v.55 no.11
    • /
    • pp.4146-4158
    • /
    • 2023
  • This paper proposes a combined plastic and creep constitutive model of A533B1 pressure vessel steel to simulate progressive deformation of nuclear pressure vessels under severe accident conditions. To develop the model, recent tensile test data covering a wide range of temperatures (from RT to 1,100 ℃) and strain rates (from 0.001%/s to 1.0%/s) was used. Comparison with experimental data confirms that the proposed combined plastic and creep model can well reflect effects of temperature and strain rate on tensile behaviour up to failure. In the companion paper (Part II), the proposed model will be used to simulate OECD lower head failure (OLHF) test data.