Strain rate mechanical properties

The influence of temperature and strain rate can be well represented by Eyring s law physical aging leads to an increase of the yield stress and a decrease of ductility the yield stress increases with hydrostatic pressure, and decreases with plasticization effect. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that constant strain rate. Structure-property relationships display similar trends e.g., chain stiffness through a Tg increase and yielding is favored by the existence of mechanically active relaxations due to local molecular motions (fi relaxation). 

Perhaps more so than any other common metal, the mechanical properties of chromium (8,14—17) depend on purity, history, grain size, strain rate. ... 

L.E. Murr, Residual Microstructure—Mechanical Property Relationships in Shock-Loaded Metals and Alloys, in Shock Waves and High Strain Rate Phenomena in Metals (edited by M.A. Meyers and L.E. Murr), Plenum, New York, 1981, 607 pp. 

Karnes, C.H., The Plate Impact Configuration for Determining Mechanical Properties of Materials at High Strain Rates, in Mechanical Behavior of Materials Under Dynamic Loads (edited by Lindholm, U.S.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1968, pp. 270-293. 

Step 2. After a contact time t, the material is fractured or fatigued and the mechanical properties determined. The measured properties will be a function of the test configuration, rate of testing, temperature, etc., and include the critical strain energy release rate Gic, the critical stress intensity factor K[c, the critical... 

Strength and Stiffness. Thermoplastic materials are viscoelastic which means that their mechanical properties reflect the characteristics of both viscous liquids and elastic solids. Thus when a thermoplastic is stressed it responds by exhibiting viscous flow (which dissipates energy) and by elastic displacement (which stores energy). The properties of viscoelastic materials are time, temperature and strain rate dependent. Nevertheless the conventional stress-strain test is frequently used to describe the (short-term) mechanical properties of plastics. It must be remembered, however, that as described in detail in Chapter 2 the information obtained from such tests may only be used for an initial sorting of materials. It is not suitable, or intended, to provide design data which must usually be obtained from long term tests. 

In many cases, less intense pressure or stress waves are encountered in which times to achieve peak pressure may be hundreds of nanoseconds or more. The study of solids under these conditions can be the source of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties of solid materials at large strain, high pressure, and high strain rates. 

The mechanical properties can be studied by stretching a polymer specimen at constant rate and monitoring the stress produced. The Young (elastic) modulus is determined from the initial linear portion of the stress-strain curve, and other mechanical parameters of interest include the yield and break stresses and the corresponding strain (draw ratio) values. Some of these parameters will be reported in the following paragraphs, referred to as results on thermotropic polybibenzoates with different spacers. The stress-strain plots were obtained at various drawing temperatures and rates. 

These differences on the stress-strain behavior of P7MB and PDTMB show the marked influence of the mesomorphic state on the mechanical properties of a polymer. When increasing the drawing temperatures and simultaneously decreasing the strain rate, PDTMB exhibits a behavior nearly elastomeric with relatively low modulus and high draw ratios. On the contrary, P7MB displays the mechanical behavior typical of a semicrystalline polymer. 

The mechanical properties were obtained using a tensile machine at room temperature and for a strain rate of 1000%/h. Each reported value of the modulus was an average of five tests. The tensile modulus Et was taken as the slope of the initial straight line portion of the stress-strain curve. 

PPG would allow more metal at the expense of the oxidizer to further energize the composition. In addition, HTPB is frequently preferred over PPG because of its superior mechanical properties, better aging characteristics, and lower glass-transition temperature (Tg). The latter is especially desirable because at low temperature, the higher strain rates produced by motor ignition decrease the elongation of the composite rather markedly. 

K. Higashi, T.G. Nieh, and J. Wadsworth, "Effect of Temperature on the Mechanical Properties of Mechanically-Alloyed Materials at High Strain Rates," Acta Metall. Mater., 43 3275 (1995). 

Mechanical properties at 21°C, 65% relative humidity, using 60% minute strain rate)... 

Edwards e/a/. carried out controlled potential, slow strain-rate tests on Zimaloy (a cobalt-chromium-molybdenum implant alloy) in Ringer s solution at 37°C and showed that hydrogen absorption may degrade the mechanical properties of the alloy. Potentials were controlled so that the tensile sample was either cathodic or anodic with respect to the metal s free corrosion potential. Hydrogen was generated on the sample surface when the specimen was cathodic, and dissolution of the sample was encouraged when the sample was anodic. The results of these controlled potential tests showed no susceptibility of this alloy to SCC at anodic potentials. 

Viscoelasticity A combination of viscous and elastic properties in a plastic with the relative contribution of each being dependent on time, temperature, stress, and strain rate. It relates to the mechanical behavior of plastics in which there is a time and temperature dependent relationship between stress and strain. A material having this property is considered to combine the features of a perfectly elastic solid and a perfect fluid. 

Mass Spectra. Obtained by Gillis et al (Ref 104). Field ionization and electron impact ionization mass spectra are given by Brunee et al (Ref 54) Mechanical Properties < Sound Velocity. Hoge (Ref 77) obtained the following ultimate stress as a function of strain rate for machined discs (1.77g/cc) of PETN (all failures were brittle fractures)... 

Different factors contribute to the mechanical properties of plant tissue cell turgor, which is one of the most important ones, cell bonding force through middle lamella, cell wall resistance to compression or tensile forces, density of cell packaging, which defines the free spaces with gas or liquid, and some factors, also common to other products, such as sample size and shape, temperature, and strain rate (Vincent, 1994). Depending on the sample properties (mainly turgor and resistance of middle lamella), two failure modes have been described (Pitt, 1992) cell debonding and cell rupture. 

Termonia, Y. (1992). Effect of strain rate on the mechanical properties of composites with a weak fiber/ matrix interface, J. Mater. Sci. 27, 4878-4882. 

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