The hot compressive deformation behaviors of Cu-6wt.%Ag alloy were studied experimentally in the temperature range of 973.1123 K and the strain rate range of 0.01.10 s^-1.The stress increases and reaches the maximum v...The hot compressive deformation behaviors of Cu-6wt.%Ag alloy were studied experimentally in the temperature range of 973.1123 K and the strain rate range of 0.01.10 s^-1.The stress increases and reaches the maximum value when the true strain is very small,and then the stress changes slowly and tends to be stable under the action of work hardening,dynamic recovery and recrystallization.The material parameters of the conventional Arrhenius constitutive model are only related to strain under different deformation conditions,and the prediction error is large,which cannot accurately characterize the hot deformation behavior of the alloy.To describe the hot deformation behavior of the alloy accurately,a modified constitutive model was established by considering the simultaneous influence of forming temperature,strain rate and strain.The results indicate that correlation coefficient(R)and the average absolute relative error(AARE)are 0.993 and 4.2%,respectively.The modified constitutive model can accurately describe the hot deformation behavior of Cu-6wt.%Ag alloy.展开更多
An extended finite element method incorporated with the cohesive crack model(CCM-based XFEM) is developed in consideration of crack tip enrichment.It could improve the accuracy and is introduced into dam safety monito...An extended finite element method incorporated with the cohesive crack model(CCM-based XFEM) is developed in consideration of crack tip enrichment.It could improve the accuracy and is introduced into dam safety monitoring for the first time.Firstly,the proposed method is verified for a benchmark concrete beam by comparing the results with those of numerical investigations obtained by other researchers.Furthermore,it is adopted as an alternative method for building the deformation hybrid models of non-stable cracks in an arc dam,for the reason that classical FEMs are cumbersome in modeling the cohesive crack growth due to the need of remeshing the moving discontinuities.Case study proves that the fitted results of the mentioned deformation hybrid model,better than the classical statistical model,are well consistent with the measured data and reliable to forecast the development tendency of crack deformation.Therefore,the present CCM-based XFEM could provide a practical way to simulate and monitor the cracking process in concrete arch dam.展开更多
A general model of fatigue crack growth(FCG) in ductile alloys under variable amplitude loading is proposed based on the passivation-lancet theory and the crack closure concept.The model can capture the interactions o...A general model of fatigue crack growth(FCG) in ductile alloys under variable amplitude loading is proposed based on the passivation-lancet theory and the crack closure concept.The model can capture the interactions of single cycle overloading and underloading,sequential loading and spectrum loading effectively.Moreover,the retardation effect due to overloads and the acceleration effect due to underloading can be described quantitatively by a transition function of crack opening stress.The fatigue test data in 2024-T351,2024-T3 and 7075-T6 aluminum alloys under different types of variable amplitude loading and spectrum loading are used to validate the general model and the predictions by the general model are in good agreement with the test data.Furthermore,the predictions are also compared with the existing models,including FASTRAN,AFGROW and the state-space model,and the comparison results show that the general model predicts the FCG process more accurately.展开更多
When two contacting solid surfaces are tightly closed and invisible to the naked eye, the discontinuity is said to be microscopic regardless of whether its length is short or long. By this definition, it is not suffic...When two contacting solid surfaces are tightly closed and invisible to the naked eye, the discontinuity is said to be microscopic regardless of whether its length is short or long. By this definition, it is not sufficient to distinguish the difference between a micro- and macro-crack by using the length parameter. Microcracks in high strength metal alloys have been known to be sev- eral centimeters or longer. Considered in this work is a dual scale fatigue crack growth model where the main crack can be mi- cro or macro but there prevails an inherent microscopic tip region that is damaged depending on the irregularities of the micro- structure. This region is referred to as the ＂micro-tip＂ and can be simulated by a sharp wedge with different angles in addition to mixed boundary conditions. The combination is sufficient to model microscopic entities in the form of voids, inclusions, precipitations, interfaces, in addition to subgrain imperfections, or cluster of dislocations. This is accomplished by using the method of ＂singularity representation＂ such that closed form asymptotic solutions can be obtained for the development of fa- tigue crack growth rate relations with three parameters. They include： （1） the crack surface tightness o-＊ represented by Cro/Cr~ = 0.3-0.5 for short cracks in region I, and 0.1-0.2 for long cracks in region II, （2） the micro/macro material properties reflected by the shear modulus ratio/1＂ （=,L/micro/]-/macro varying between 2 and 5） and （3） the most sensitive parameter d＊ being the micro-tip characteristic length d＊ （=d/do） whose magnitude decreases in the direction of region I ---~II. The existing fatigue crack growth data for 2024-T3 and 7075-T6 aluminum sheets are used to reinterpret the two-parameter da/dN=C（AK）n relation where AK has now been re-derived for a microcrack with surfaces tightly in contact. The contact force will depend on the mean stress ~m or mean stress ratio R as the primary parameter and on the stress amplitude era as the secondary parameter.展开更多
基金Project(51675061)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The hot compressive deformation behaviors of Cu-6wt.%Ag alloy were studied experimentally in the temperature range of 973.1123 K and the strain rate range of 0.01.10 s^-1.The stress increases and reaches the maximum value when the true strain is very small,and then the stress changes slowly and tends to be stable under the action of work hardening,dynamic recovery and recrystallization.The material parameters of the conventional Arrhenius constitutive model are only related to strain under different deformation conditions,and the prediction error is large,which cannot accurately characterize the hot deformation behavior of the alloy.To describe the hot deformation behavior of the alloy accurately,a modified constitutive model was established by considering the simultaneous influence of forming temperature,strain rate and strain.The results indicate that correlation coefficient(R)and the average absolute relative error(AARE)are 0.993 and 4.2%,respectively.The modified constitutive model can accurately describe the hot deformation behavior of Cu-6wt.%Ag alloy.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50879024,50909041)Special Fund of State Key Laboratory of China (Grant Nos. 2009586012,2010585212) the Fun-damental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. 2009B08514,2010B20414)
文摘An extended finite element method incorporated with the cohesive crack model(CCM-based XFEM) is developed in consideration of crack tip enrichment.It could improve the accuracy and is introduced into dam safety monitoring for the first time.Firstly,the proposed method is verified for a benchmark concrete beam by comparing the results with those of numerical investigations obtained by other researchers.Furthermore,it is adopted as an alternative method for building the deformation hybrid models of non-stable cracks in an arc dam,for the reason that classical FEMs are cumbersome in modeling the cohesive crack growth due to the need of remeshing the moving discontinuities.Case study proves that the fitted results of the mentioned deformation hybrid model,better than the classical statistical model,are well consistent with the measured data and reliable to forecast the development tendency of crack deformation.Therefore,the present CCM-based XFEM could provide a practical way to simulate and monitor the cracking process in concrete arch dam.
基金supported by the Gas Turbine Establishment of China (Grant No. GTE022006084)
文摘A general model of fatigue crack growth(FCG) in ductile alloys under variable amplitude loading is proposed based on the passivation-lancet theory and the crack closure concept.The model can capture the interactions of single cycle overloading and underloading,sequential loading and spectrum loading effectively.Moreover,the retardation effect due to overloads and the acceleration effect due to underloading can be described quantitatively by a transition function of crack opening stress.The fatigue test data in 2024-T351,2024-T3 and 7075-T6 aluminum alloys under different types of variable amplitude loading and spectrum loading are used to validate the general model and the predictions by the general model are in good agreement with the test data.Furthermore,the predictions are also compared with the existing models,including FASTRAN,AFGROW and the state-space model,and the comparison results show that the general model predicts the FCG process more accurately.
文摘When two contacting solid surfaces are tightly closed and invisible to the naked eye, the discontinuity is said to be microscopic regardless of whether its length is short or long. By this definition, it is not sufficient to distinguish the difference between a micro- and macro-crack by using the length parameter. Microcracks in high strength metal alloys have been known to be sev- eral centimeters or longer. Considered in this work is a dual scale fatigue crack growth model where the main crack can be mi- cro or macro but there prevails an inherent microscopic tip region that is damaged depending on the irregularities of the micro- structure. This region is referred to as the ＂micro-tip＂ and can be simulated by a sharp wedge with different angles in addition to mixed boundary conditions. The combination is sufficient to model microscopic entities in the form of voids, inclusions, precipitations, interfaces, in addition to subgrain imperfections, or cluster of dislocations. This is accomplished by using the method of ＂singularity representation＂ such that closed form asymptotic solutions can be obtained for the development of fa- tigue crack growth rate relations with three parameters. They include： （1） the crack surface tightness o-＊ represented by Cro/Cr~ = 0.3-0.5 for short cracks in region I, and 0.1-0.2 for long cracks in region II, （2） the micro/macro material properties reflected by the shear modulus ratio/1＂ （=,L/micro/]-/macro varying between 2 and 5） and （3） the most sensitive parameter d＊ being the micro-tip characteristic length d＊ （=d/do） whose magnitude decreases in the direction of region I ---~II. The existing fatigue crack growth data for 2024-T3 and 7075-T6 aluminum sheets are used to reinterpret the two-parameter da/dN=C（AK）n relation where AK has now been re-derived for a microcrack with surfaces tightly in contact. The contact force will depend on the mean stress ~m or mean stress ratio R as the primary parameter and on the stress amplitude era as the secondary parameter.
