Affiliation:
1. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Abstract
This work uses the finite element technique to model the elastoplastic deformation of a hemisphere contacting a rigid flat for various material properties typical of aluminium, bronze, copper, titanium and malleable cast iron. Additionally, this work conducted parametric finite element method (FEM) tests on a generic material in which the elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio are varied independently while the yield strength is held constant. A larger spectrum of material properties are covered in this work than in most previous studies. The results from this work are compared with two previously formulated elastoplastic models simulating the deformation of a hemisphere in contact with a rigid flat. Both of the previously formulated models use carbon steel mechanical properties to arrive at empirical formulations implied to pertain to various materials. While both models considered several carbon steels with various yield strengths, they did not test materials with various Poisson's ratios or elastic moduli. The previously generated elastoplastic models give fairly good predictions when compared with the FEM results for various material properties from the current work, except that one model produces more accurate predictions overall, especially at large deformations where other models neglect important trends due to decreases in hardness with increasing deformation.
Subject
Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Surfaces and Interfaces,Mechanical Engineering
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