...Takahiro Namazu; Yuji Nagai; Nobuyuki Naka; Nozomu Araki; Shozo Inoue In this article, the design and development of a biaxial tensile test device and its specimen are described. The device, which was designed for evaluating the mechanical characteristics of a thin film specimen under in-plane...

... the effect on strengths/behavior of the CSS samples due to embedded PFCS. Then carefully planned experiments are conducted to investigate the ability of the embedded PFCS to monitor the stress/strain levels and detect damages in CSS using modal analysis technique. The tensile tests show that both the average...

... strain rate conditions were examined under a Hitachi made S-3400 N model scanning electron microscope (SEM) to observe the fracture features. Figure 10 presents SEM photographs of the fracture surface of an aluminum alloy 7075 T651 specimen subjected to quasi-static tensile test. Specimen necking...

... 03 2011 23 03 2011 elasticity fibre reinforced plastics finite element analysis rubber shear deformation tensile testing hyperelasticity elastomers strain energy functions transversely isotropic nonlinear materials rubber nonlinear finite element analysis...

...Yu Cao; Johan Ahlström; Birger Karlsson Temperature and strain rate effects on the mechanical behavior of commercial rephosphorized, interstitial free steel have been investigated by uniaxial tensile testing, covering temperatures ranging from − 60 ° C to + 100 ° C and strain rates from 1 × 10 − 4...

.... There was great variability between all samples in both shear and tensile tests and samples mainly broke in a macro-level brittle fracture mode between layers. The greatest shear strength observed is about 68 MPa (experiment 12), which is close to the shear strength of solid 1100-O aluminum. The transverse...

...O.-G. Lademo; O. Engler; J. Aegerter; T. Berstad; A. Benallal; O. S. Hopperstad Tensile tests are carried out for the aluminum alloys AA1200 and AA3103 at various strain-rates in the range from 10 − 4 s − 1 to 1 s − 1 . Tests with constant nominal strain-rate and strain-rate jump tests...

...J. Brnic; M. Canadija; G. Turkalj; D. Lanc In this paper, some interesting, experimentally determined actualities referring to the 50CrMo4 steel are presented. That way, the mechanical properties of the material are derived from uniaxial tensile tests at lowered and elevated temperatures...

...Eun-chae Jeon; Joo-Seung Park; Doo-Sun Choi; Kug-Hwan Kim; Dongil Kwon The instrumented indentation test, which measures indentation tensile properties, has attracted interest recently because this test can replace uniaxial tensile test. An international standard for instrumented indentation test...

.... An in situ tensile test with X-ray tomography is utilized to quantify material damage during deformation in terms of the number of nucleated voids and porosity. The results of this experiment are used for both the development of a clustering-sensitive nucleation criterion and the validation of the damage...

... that formability of welded dual-phase (DP) steels is significantly reduced by the formation of a softened region in the heat-affected zone (HAZ). In this study, a finite element simulation of welded DP980 samples undergoing transverse uniaxial tensile testing was used to evaluate the effects of soft zone width...

... 10 06 2008 clay composite materials curing elasticity glass transition polymers scanning electron microscopy shear deformation spectrochemical analysis tensile strength tensile testing Polymeric composites containing nanoscale constituents, such as nanotubes or nanoclays...

...M. Weiss; M. E. Dingle; B. F. Rolfe; P. D. Hodgson The influence of temperature on the forming behavior of an aluminum/polypropylene/aluminum (APA) sandwich sheet was studied. Shear and tensile tests were performed to determine the mechanical properties of the laminate and the component materials...

.... The effective stress-effective strain relations could be determined by those measured values and this proposed analytical model. The flow stress curves of the tubular materials obtained by this approach were compared with those obtained by the tensile test with consideration of the anisotropic effect...

... concentrations of > 2 wt. % . The degradation is perhaps linked to the crosslinked bonds decreasing with increasing clay content causing the nanocomposite structures to become more brittle. The tensile test data obtained was used to plot stress-strain curves for the various nanocomposite...

.... The basic version of the model, despite its simplicity, is capable of describing the quasi-static hysteresis as well as temperature dependence of the material behavior and thermomechanical coupling. All parameters have a clear physical meaning. A comparison with experimental results from tensile tests...

... been modified. A procedure for the identification of model parameters is developed through the use of experimental data from both uniaxial compressive tests extracted from the literature and uniaxial tensile tests performed in this study across a variety of strain rates. The numerical algorithm shows...

... of the TWBs. On the other hand, the results of uniaxial tensile tests clearly illustrated that there was no significant difference between the tensile strengths of the TWBs and those of the base metals. The metallographic study demonstrated a difference of grain size in the materials at base metal, heat...

... are presented and discussed. The effects of loading rate and the influence of axial loading on transverse and transverse loading on axial stress-strain responses are also discussed. In this study of the Kevlar KM2 fibers, quasi-static longitudinal tensile tests were performed with the standard test method...

... are appropriately investigated. It is demonstrated that the model can correctly describe the overall and local damaged behavior of polycrystals. micromechanics stress-strain relations fracture mechanics fatigue internal stresses tensile testing compressive testing elasticity grain boundaries slip...