...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...

... from 77/s to 164/s. Further, in the strain rate range considered, there is an increase of tensile yield strength as the strain rate is increased. However, no clear trend regarding the yield strain is observed. High strain rate tensile testing of IS 2062 mild steel specimens was also carried out...

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...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...

...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...

... tensile direction than in shear. 16 01 2010 18 06 2010 29 09 2010 29 09 2010 aluminium composite materials plastic deformation shear strength tensile strength tensile testing titanium ultrasonic bonding ultrasonic welding Ultrasonic additive...

...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...

... transition polymers scanning electron microscopy shear deformation spectrochemical analysis tensile strength tensile testing Polymeric composites containing nanoscale constituents, such as nanotubes or nanoclays, are receiving considerable research interest due to the possibility of achieving...

...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...

... loading, degradation in mechanical properties may be attributed to the formation of agglomerated clay tactoids. Results of transmission electron microscopy studies and scanning electron microscopy studies of the fractured surface of tensile specimens verify these hypotheses. The tensile test data...

... on the thermomechanical behavior. In contrast to most shape memory alloys NiTi shows instabilities during transformation. These instabilities have been observed in the form of Lueders-like bands in tensile tests on wires, tubes and thin strips ( 6 7 8 ). Localized transformation also means localized emission...

... 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...

... properties are critical in determining the armor effectiveness. 4 Tensile tests with different strain rates Typical time records from an experiment with this dynamic experimental setup are shown in Fig. 6 . The traces are converted to strain and stress signals. The upper curve...

.... The grooved structure had a 31% to 45% decrease in the apparent density compared to the ungrooved specimens. Bend tests, tensile tests, and Charpy impact tests were performed on laminates made from this material. The specific values of tensile strength, flexural modulus, and Charpy impact toughness were...