Plastic Behavior of Engineering Materials. Part 2. Partially Plastic Thick-Walled Cylinders

Abstract

This report presents experimental and theoretical work on the overstraining of thick-walled cylinders. Four mild steel cylinders (2:1 wall ratio) were subjected to internal fluid pressure and strains at the bore and the outside surfaces were measured. In addition, the mechanism of flow was studied by polishing the end and outside surfaces for the observation of Lueders lines. A theoretical analysis is given which is based on results from a quantitative comparison of certain previous theories and available experimental data. The solution is in closed form and is applicable to strain-hardening materials. Observations disagree with theoretical assumptions concerning the progression of yielding; wedge regions of overstrained material, occupying a small fraction of the total volume, characterize the yielding process. Discrepancies with theory are observed in the measured strains; fully plastic load-carrying capacities predicted from theory are higher than those observed in the experiments. Instability of deformation (creep) under maintained constant load is discussed. It is concluded that theoretical analyses, in their present form, do not cope adequately with the inelastic problem concerning the wedge type of yielding in two and three dimensional, non uniform stress fields. Suggestions are given for further research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1952
Accession Number
ADA075887

Entities

People

  • M. C. Steele

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Creep
  • Elastic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Hardening
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Observation
  • Payload
  • Plastic Flow
  • Shear Stresses
  • Strain Hardening
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Stresses
  • Tensile Stress

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  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Theoretical Analysis.