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This paper presents an experimental investigation on the perforation behaviour of 5754-H111 and 6082-T6 aluminium alloys. The mechanical response of these materials has been characterized in compression with strain rates in the range of 10 −3 s −1 <ε < 5 • 10 3 s −1 . Moreover, penetration tests have been conducted on 5754-H111 and 6082-T6 plates of 4 mm thickness using conical, hemispherical and blunt projectiles. The perforation experiments covered impact velocities in the range of 50 m/s < V 0 < 200 m/s. The initial and residual velocities of the projectile were measured and the ballistic limit velocity obtained for the two aluminium alloys for the different nose shapes. Failure mode and post-mortem deflection of the plates have been examined and the perforation mechanisms associated to each projectile/target configuration investigated. It has been shown that the energy absorption capacity of the impacted plates is the result of the collective role played by target material behaviour, projectile nose shape and impact velocity in the penetration mechanisms.

The deterministic nature of the fracture location in the dynamic tensile testing of steel sheets

This paper investigates the steady-state elastoplastic fields induced by a pressurized cylindrical cavity expanding dynamically in an anisotropic porous medium. For that task, we have developed a theoretical model which: (i) incorporates into the formalism developed by Cohen and Durban (2013b) the effect of plastic anisotropy using the constitutive framework developed by Benzerga and Besson ( 2001) and (ii) uses the artifical viscosity approach developed by Lew et al. (2001) to capture the shock waves that emerge at high cavity expansion velocities. We have shown that while the development of the shock waves is hardly affected by the material anisotropy, the directionality of the plastic properties does have an effect on the elastoplastic fields that evolve near the cavity. The importance of this effect is strongly dependent on the cavity expansion velocity, the initial porosity and the strain hardening of the material. In addition, the theoretical model has been used in conjunction with the Recht and Ipson (1963) formulas to assess the ballistic performance of porous anisotropic targets against high velocity perforation.

In this paper, we have performed a microstructurally-informed finite element analysis on the effect of porosity on the formation of multiple necks and fragments in ductile thin rings subjected to dynamic expansion. For that purpose, we have characterized by X-ray tomography the porous microstructure of 4 different additively manufactured materials (aluminium alloy AlSi 10 Mg, stainless steel 316L, titanium alloy Ti 6 Al 4 V and Inconel 718L) with initial void volume fractions ranging from ≈ 0.0007% to ≈ 2%, and pore sizes varying between ≈ 6 µm and ≈ 110 µm. Three-dimensional analysis of the tomograms has revealed that the voids generally have nearly spherical shape and quite homogeneous spatial distribution in the bulk of the four materials tested. The pore size distributions quantified from the tomograms have been characterized using a Log-normal statistical function, which has been used in conjunction with a Force Biased Algorithm that replicates the experimentally observed random spatial distribution of the voids, to generate ring expansion finite element models in ABAQUS/Explicit (2016) which include actual porous microstructures representative of the materials tested. We have modeled the materials behavior using von Mises plasticity, and we have carried out finite element calculations for both elastic perfectly-plastic materials, and materials which show strain hardening, strain rate hardening and temperature softening effects. Moreover, we have assumed that fracture occurs when a critical value of effective plastic strain is reached. The finite element calculations have been performed for expansion velocities ranging from 50 m/s to 500 m/s. A key point of this investigation is that we have established individualized correlations between the main features of the porous microstructure (i.e. initial void volume fraction, average void size and maximum void size) and the number of necks and fragments formed in the calculations. In addition, we have brought out the effect of the porous microstrucure and inertia on the distributions of neck and fragment sizes. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper ever considering actual porous microstructures to investigate the role of material defects in multiple localization and dynamic fragmentation of ductile metallic materials.

We develop a comparative analysis of the processes of dynamic necking and fragmentation in elasto-plastic and hyperelastic ductile rings subjected to rapid radial expansion. For that purpose, finite element simulations have been carried out using the commercial code ABAQUS/Explicit. Expanding velocities which range between 25 m/s and 600 m/s have been investigated. The elasto-plastic material and the hyperelastic material are modelled with constitutive equations which provide nearly the same stress-strain response during monotonic uniaxial tensile loading, and fracture is assumed to occur at the same level of deformation energy. The computations have revealed that, while the number of necks nucleated in the elasto-plastic and hyperelastic rings is similar, the mechanisms which control their development are significantly different. In the elasto-plastic rings several necks are arrested due to the stress waves which travel the specimen after the localization process has started, and thus the number of fractures in the ring is significantly lower than the number of incepted necks. On the contrary, these stress waves do not stop the development of any neck in the hyperelastic rings. The elastic energy released from the sections of the ring which are unloading during the localization process fuels the development of the necks. Hence, for the whole range of investigated velocities, the proportion of necks that develop into fracture sites is much greater for the hyperelastic rings than for the elasto-plastic ones. The comparison between the numerical results obtained for both materials brings to light the roles of elastic unloading and plastic dissipation in multiple necking and fragmentation processes.

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Experimental and numerical investigations of the failure strain of aeronautical 2024-T3 aluminum were conducted. Experiments on the Double notched tube (DNT) specimen loaded in combined tension and torsion were applied to an aluminum alloy for the first time. Nu-merical analysis showed that the specimen exhibited uniformity in stress-strain as plastic strain developed. Low triaxiality values and a wide range of Lode parameter values were obtained at failure conditions. The failure strain of 2024-T3 aluminum showed strong depend-ence on the Lode parameter in agreement with the observations reported by other authors. The use of the DNT specimen was proven to be efficient in calibrating the ductile failure model of aluminum alloys.