Failure of laterally crushed aluminum tubes under combined bending and tension
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description: This thesis is concerned with the accurate numerical simulation of localized deformation that can develop into necking and failure, induced by combined bending and tension in aluminum alloy shell structures. The study is motivated by the need to establish the onset and evolution of such failures in imploding underwater cylindrical aluminum alloy shell structures. However, failure under combined bending and tension is also of concern in sheet metal forming. Such localized zones of deformation are shown to develop under controlled conditions in specially designed crushing experiments of Al-6061-T6 cylindrical shells. In these experiments shells of finite length and radially constrained ends are crushed laterally by rigid punches. The crushing, which is conducted under displacement control, causes the shell to develop bending and stretching stresses that lead to arcs of localized wall thinning to appear near the radially constrained locations. The local wall thinning develops into depressions with a width of the order of the shell wall thickness. As crushing progresses the depressions deepen, increase their span, become neck-like and develop inclined failures. The crushing was terminated when the first of four such depressions ruptured. After unloading, the shell was sliced along the principal plane of crushing and the most deformed cross sections of the necks were measured using an optical microscope. The crushing experiments were simulated numerically using solid FE models. The material was modeled as a finitely deforming elastic-plastic solid that hardens isotropically using three constitutive models: the first is based on the von Mises yield function, the second on the non-quadratic isotropic Hosford yield function and the third on the anisotropic Yld04-3D yield function. The models were calibrated to the same stress-strain response and to data from a set of radial biaxial experiments conducted on the same alloy tubes. The overall structural response was reproduced…
abstract: This thesis is concerned with the accurate numerical simulation of localized deformation that can develop into necking and failure, induced by combined bending and tension in aluminum alloy shell structures. The study is motivated by the need to establish the onset and evolution of such failures in imploding underwater cylindrical aluminum alloy shell structures. However, failure under combined bending and tension is also of concern in sheet metal forming. Such localized zones of deformation are shown to develop under controlled conditions in specially designed crushing experiments of Al-6061-T6 cylindrical shells. In these experiments shells of finite length and radially constrained ends are crushed laterally by rigid punches. The crushing, which is conducted under displacement control, causes the shell to develop bending and stretching stresses that lead to arcs of localized wall thinning to appear near the radially constrained locations. The local wall thinning develops into depressions with a width of the order of the shell wall thickness. As crushing progresses the depressions deepen, increase their span, become neck-like and develop inclined failures. The crushing was terminated when the first of four such depressions ruptured. After unloading, the shell was sliced along the principal plane of crushing and the most deformed cross sections of the necks were measured using an optical microscope. The crushing experiments were simulated numerically using solid FE models. The material was modeled as a finitely deforming elastic-plastic solid that hardens isotropically using three constitutive models: the first is based on the von Mises yield function, the second on the non-quadratic isotropic Hosford yield function and the third on the anisotropic Yld04-3D yield function. The models were calibrated to the same stress-strain response and to data from a set of radial biaxial experiments conducted on the same alloy tubes. The overall structural response was reproduced…
author: Giagmouris, Theofilos
language: eng
keywords: Localization, Aluminum alloy, Yield function
date published: 2010-08
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:01:04Z
provider: University of Texas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Texas at Austin

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