The interfacial adhesive properties ofpolypropylene/stainless steel were studied by the blister test. The polypropylene film with a squared free-standing window was pressured by oil from one side of film. The corresponding deformation field was observed by a digital speckle correlation method. The experimental results show that the squared film deforms and debonds from stainless steel with the increase of pressure. The debonding of the squared film in initiates from the center of edge and extends to the comer, and then the deformation of film evolves from square to circle shape. The interfacial adhesive energy of polypropylene/stainless steel is （22.60±1.55） J/m2, which is in agreement with that measured by film with a circular window.
Based on load-displacement curves,indentation is widely used to extract the elastoplastic properties of materials.It is generally believed that such a measure is non-unique and a full stress-strain curve cannot be obtained using plural sharp and deep spherical indenters.In this paper we show that by introducing an additional dimensionless function of A/A (the ratio of residual area to the area of an indenter profile) in the reverse analysis,the elastoplastic properties of several unknown materials that exhibit visually indistinguishable load-displacement curves can be uniquely determined with a sharp indentation.
To optimize the process parameters, it is necessary to exactly predict failure modes during deep drawing of coated metal sheets, where two main failure forms are fracture and wrinkling. In this paper, finite element simulations based on continuous damage mechanics were used to study the failure behavior during a cylindrical deep drawing of metal sheets with nickel coating. It is shown that taking the effect of blank holder force into account, these two failure modes can be predicted. The simulation results are well consistent with that obtained from experiments.
Atomic-undercoordination-induced local bond contraction,bond strength gain,and the associated temperature (T)-dependent atomic-cohesive-energy and binding-energy-density are shown to originate intrinsically the exotic paradox of superplasticity,superelasticity,and superrigidity demonstrated by solid sizing from monatomic chain to mesoscopic grain.The paradox follows these relationships:(ε(K,T)y(K,T)σ(K,T))∝(exp(B/△T_(mk)),(η_1△T_(mk))d～(-3),[1+AK～(-2/2)exp(△T_(mk)/T)]△T_(mk)d～(-3)),(Plastic strain)(Elastic modulus)(Yield stress,IHPR)where A,B,η1,d and△T_(mk)=Tm(K) Tare size (K)-dependent physical parameters.Tm (K) is the melting point.Mechanical work hardening during compressing and self-heating during stretching modulate the measured outcome extrinsically.Superplasticity dominates in the solid-quasimolten-liquid transition state.The competition between the accumulation and annihilation of dislocations activates the inverse Hall-Petch relationship.Therefore,it is essential for one to discriminate the intrinsic competition between the local bond energy density gain and the atomic cohesive energy loss from the extrinsic factors of pressure and temperature in dealing with atomistic mechano-thermo dynamics.
MA ZengShengZHOU ZhaoFengHUANG YongLiZHOU YiChunSUN ChangQing
An inverse method for extracting the elastic-plastic properties of metallic thin films from instrumented sharp indentation has been proposed in terms of dimensional analysis and finite element modeling. A wide range of materials with different elastic modulus, yield strength, and strain-hardening exponent were examined.Similar to the Nix-Gao model for the depth dependence of hardness H,the relationship between elastic modulus E and indentation depth h can be expressed as By combiningthese two formulas, we find that there is a relationship between yield stress and indentation depth h：where σyO is the yield strength associated with the strain-hardening exponent n, the true hardness Ho and the true elastic modulus Eo.is constant, whichis only related to n, and hH and hE are characteristic lengths for hardness and elastic modulus. The results obtained from inverse analysis show that the elastic-plastic properties of thin films can be uniquely extracted from the solution of this relationship when the indentation size effect has to be taken into account.
