Bulletin of the American Physical Society
20th Biennial Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
Volume 62, Number 9
Sunday–Friday, July 9–14, 2017; St. Louis, Missouri
Session D4: Inelastic Deformations, Fracture and Spall III |
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Chair: Rich Becker, Army Research Laboratory Room: Regency Ballroom A |
Monday, July 10, 2017 2:00PM - 2:30PM |
D4.00001: Rate \& Microstructure Influence on Fracture of WC-Co/Ni Composites Invited Speaker: Leslie Lamberson Tungsten carbide metal matrix composites contain ceramic grains of tungsten carbide within a binder of cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni), allowing the material to have advantageous properties of both metals and ceramics including higher resistance to fracture than most structural ceramics, and higher resistance to permanent deformation than most engineering metals \footnote{K.G. Budinski, M.K. Budinski, Eng. Mat. Prop. \& Sel. (1999)}. Due to these performance advantages, WC composites are of interest in drilling, manufacturing tools, and defense penetrator applications, to name a few. Under quasi-static conditions, these hardmetals have been shown to generally exhibit an increase in fracture toughness with an increase in mean free path in the binder phase, and an increase in hardness and wear resistance with a decrease in WC grain size \footnote{A. Duszova, et.al., IJRMHM {\bf 41} 2013; T. Klunsner at al., PE {\bf 2} 2010}; yet relatively little is known in regards to their dynamic response. Here we present the fracture behavior of WC metal matrix composites under three extreme loading conditions: (1) a single-strike acceleration loading to characterize classical dynamic crack tip energetics via stress intensity factors (SIFs) (2) the impact fatigue, or sub-catastrophic repetitive strikes to failure, and (3) the dynamic crack interactions with normal impact over 1 km/s using an in-house combustionless two-stage light-gas gun. All investigations are conducted using ultra high-speed imaging with full-field measurements from digital image correlation (DIC), and post-mortem scanning electron microscopy. Preliminary results for (1) show that the dynamic fracture toughness increases by a factor of 1.22 to 1.65 over quasi-static, regardless of the binder or grain size investigated. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, July 10, 2017 2:30PM - 2:45PM |
D4.00002: Numerical simulation of systems of shear bands in ductile metal with inclusions JeeYeon Plohr We develop a method for numerical simulations of high strain-rate loading of mesoscale samples of ductile metal with inclusions. Because of its small-scale inhomogeneity, the composite material is prone to localized shear deformation. This method employs the Generalized Method of Cells to ensure that the micro mechanical behavior of the metal and inclusions is reflected properly in the behavior of the composite at the mesoscale. To find the effective plastic strain rate when shear bands are present, we extend and apply the analytic and numerical analysis of shear bands of Glimm, Plohr, and Sharp [Mech. Materials, vol. 24, pp. 31--41, 1996]. Our tests of the method focus on the stress/strain response in uniaxial-strain flow, both compressive and tensile, of depleted uranium metal containing silicon carbide inclusions. In results, we verify the elevated temperature and thermal softening at shear bands in our simulations of pure DU and DU/SiC composites. We also note that in composites, due the asymmetry caused by the inclusions, shear band form at different times in different subcells. In particular, in the subcells near inclusions, shear band form much earlier than they do in pure DU. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, July 10, 2017 2:45PM - 3:00PM |
D4.00003: Shear localization in 4340 steel with different microstructure using Thick Wall Cylinder method Pedro Franco Navarro, Po-Hsun Chiu, Andrew Higgins, Matthew Serge, David Benson, Vitali Nesterenko Initiation and self-organization of shear bands in 4340 steel with initial low (2789 MPa) and high (5420 MPa) microhardnesses, but similar thermophysical properties, is studied using explosively driven Thick Wall Cylinder method and numerical simulations. In experiments low hardness 4340 steel demonstrated the initiation of a pattern of shear bands at global effective strain of about 0.53, which did not significantly change with increase of global strain up to 0.8. High microhardness 4340 steel demonstrated extremely different post-critical behavior. At global strain 0.56 a few well-developed shear bands propagated through the sample with their transformation into crack pattern at larger global strain 0.83. The propagation mechanism of shear bands in high hardness 4340 steel is explained by the interfacial microcracking between inclusions and matrix. Johnson-Cook material model with damage correctly predicted the dramatic change of shear bands pattern at similar global strains with change of initial properties of steel in numerical simulations. The pattern of shear bands was dependent on the number of initial material defects introduced by scaling of yield strength of mesh elements. [Preview Abstract] |
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