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- Björklund, Oscar
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Ductile Failure in High Strength Steel Sheets
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Developments in computer-aided engineering and the rapid growth of computational power have made simulation-driven process and product development efficient and useful since it enables detailed evaluation of product designs and their manufacturing processes. In the context of a sheet metal component, it is vital to predict possible failure both during its forming process and its subsequent usage. Accurate numerical models are needed in order to obtain trustworthy simulation results. Furthermore, the increasing demands imposed on improved weight-to-performance ratio for many products endorse the use of high-strength steels. These steels often show anisotropic behaviour and more complex hardening and fracturing compared to conventional steels. Consequently, demand for research on material and failure models suitable for these steels has increased.In this work, the mechanical and fracture behaviour of two high-strength steels, Docol 600DP and Docol 1200M, have been studied under various deformation processes. Experimental results have been used both for material characterisation and for calibration of fracture criteria. One major requirement as concerns the fracture criteria studied is that they should be simple to apply in industrial applications, i.e. it should be possible to easily calibrate the fracture criteria in simple mechanical experiments and they should be efficient and accurate. Consequently, un-coupled phenomenological damage models have been the main focus throughout this work.Detailed finite element models including accurate constitutive laws have be used to predict and capture material instabilities. Most of the fracture criteria studied are modifications of the plastic work to fracture. Ductile tensile and ductile shear types of fracture are of particular interest in sheet metal applications. For these fractures the modification of the plastic work relates to void coalescence and void collapse, respectively. Anisotropy in fracture behaviour can be captured by the introduction of a material directional function.The dissertation consists of two parts. The first part contains theory and background. The second consists of five papers.
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- Björklund, Oscar
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Modelling of Failure in High Strength Steel Sheets
- 2012
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this theses the high strength steel Docol 600DP and the ultra high strength steel Docol 1200M are studied. Constitutive laws and failure models are calibrated and veried by the use of experiments and numerical simulations. For the constitutive equations, an eight parameter high exponent yield surface has been adopted, representing the anisotropic behaviour, and a mixed isotropic-kinematic hardening has been used to capture non-linear strain paths.For ductile sheet metals three dierent failure phenomena have been observed: (i) ductile fracture, (ii) shear fracture, and (iii) instability with localised necking. The models for describing the dierent failure types have been chosen with an attempt to use just a few tests in addition to these used for the constitutive model. In this work the ductile and shear fracture have been prescribed by models presented by Cockroft-Latham and Bressan-Williams, respectively. The instability phenomenon is described by the constitutive law and the nite element models. The results obtained are in general in good agreement with test results.The thesis is divided into two main parts. The background, theoretical framework, mechanical experiments and nite element models are presented in the rst part. In the second part, two papers are appended.
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- Sjöberg, Ted, 1986-
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Method Development for Characterisation of Superalloy used in Containment Design
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Due to the trend of increasing environmental demands put on civil aviation, manufacturersof commercial aircraft engines meet increased pressure to reduce weight. Modernturbofan engines represent up to almost one tenth of an aircraft's total weight, meaning areduction of engine component weight of just 30 kg is estimated to reduce CO2 emissionsby 400 tonnes over the lifetime of a medium sized commercial aircraft. At the sametime turbine casings are required to fully prevent debris to escape in the event of bladefailure, to prevent further damage to critical systems. For new designs to be approvedthe Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) states that the containment capability of a suggesteddesign solution must be experimentally established, a process associated with highcosts and long lead times. The industry therefore more frequently relies on numericalsimulations as part of all stages in the design process. For simulations to replace theexpensive experiments in nding the nal optimum design regarding weight and safety,the accuracy of the used models have to be improved.This thesis aims to provide increased accuracy in the numerical predictions by developingexperimental procedures to test material close to the operational conditions of thecontainment structure. This is realised by performing experiments at high-strain ratesand elevated temperatures in a high-velocity tensile testing machine combined with aninduction heater. Sheet specimens of varying geometries are loaded in tension to achievedierent stress states for covering dierent failure modes. Furthermore, high-speed photographyand Digital Image Correlation are utilised to track in-plane deformations. Theresulting local deformations are then used to derive the stress-strain hardening relationand the evolution of the stress state from initial loading up to fracture. The obtaineddata are nally used to calibrate strain rate and thermal dependent plasticity and fracturemodels. To validate the calibrated models so-called reverse impact testing was used,where the resulting force of a material sample impacting an instrumented target wasquantied. The experiment was straightforward to model numerically since the specimenies freely without constraints, thereby avoiding complex boundary conditions.The characterisation method was developed and performed on nickel based Alloy 718.This material is known for its high strength and good corrosion resistance at high temperaturesand is therefore commonly used in hot parts of aircraft engines, such as thecontainment structures of the low-pressure part of the engine turbine. All material fortesting and validation was supplied from one single heat and batch, aged using the sameheat treatment conditions, to ensure consistent mechanical properties. The results fromthe characterisation procedure showed that the plastic ow of Alloy 718 is moderatelystrain rate and temperature dependent while the fracture is clearly stress state dependent.
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