Strain Rate and Inertial Effects on Impact Loaded Single-Edge Notch Bend Specimens

Vargas, P.M.; Dodds, Robert H., Jr.

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Title

Strain Rate and Inertial Effects on Impact Loaded Single-Edge Notch Bend Specimens

Author(s)

• Vargas, P.M.
• Dodds, Robert H., Jr.

Issue Date

1994-11

Keyword(s)

• Fracture mechanics
• Nonlinear dynamic analysis
• Strain rate sensitivity

Abstract

Many significant problems in fracture mechanics of ductile metals involve surface breaking defects (cracks) located in structures subjected to short-duration loading caused by impact or blast. When the severity of impact loads is sufficient to produce large inelastic deformations, the assessment of crack-tip conditions must include the effects of plasticity, strain rate and inertia. This work examines the interaction of impact loading, inelastic material deformation and rate sensitivity with the goal of improving the interpretation of ductile fracture toughness values measured under dynamic loading. We focus on shallow and deeply notched bend test specimens, SE(B)s, employed routinely to measure the static fracture toughness of a material. A thorough understanding of the test specimen's dynamic behavior is a prerequisite to the application of measured fracture properties in structural applications. Three-dimensional, nonlinear dynamic analyses are performed for SE(B) fracture specimens (a/W=0.5, 0.15, 0.0725) subjected to impact loading. Loading rates obtained in conventional drop tower tests (impact load-line velocities of = 6 m/ sec) are applied in the analyses. An explicit time integration procedure coupled with an efficient (one-point) element integration scheme is employed to compute the dynamic response of the specimen. Strain-rate sensitivity is introduced via a new, efficient implementation of the Bodner-Partom viscoplastic constitutive model. Material properties for A533B steel (a medium strength pressure vessel steel) are used in the analyses. Static analyses of the SE(B) specimens provide baseline responses for assessment of inertial effects. Similarly, dynamic analyses using a strain-rate insensitive material provide reference responses for the assessment of strain rate effects. Strains at key locations on the specimens and the support reactions (applied load) are extracted from the analyses to assess the accuracy of static formulas commonly used to estimate applied J values. Inertial effects on the applied J are quantified by examining the acceleration component of J evaluated through a domain integral procedure.

Publisher

University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Civil Engineering Studies SRS-597

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

• Naval Surface Warfare Center, Anapolis Detachment.
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Division of Engineering.
• Contract Nos. N61533-88-C-0035 and N61533-90-K-0059

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