Volume Title |
Structures
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Volume No |
Organisational documents. General data - principal stress strains, yielding, inelastic stress/strain curve, introduction to statistics, Normal distribution. Section constants - shear centre, warping constants, flexural properties, stress distribution in shells under bending.
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DATA Title |
Generalisation of smooth continuous stress-strain curves for metallic materials. |
DATA Item |
76016 |
KEYWORD |
alloy, aluminium, curve, inelastic, metal, material, modulus, plasticity, program, property, secant, steel, strain, stress, tangent, titanium, aluminum |
ISBN |
0 85679 153 9 |
ABSTRACT |
ESDU 76016 describes a generalised method for representing a smooth stress/strain curve by an equation involving Youngchr(39)s modulus, a reference stress and a characteristic index. The determination of those last two quantities is explained. The method is valid for tension or compression and provides a convenient method for accounting for the behaviour of a material beyond its elastic range, for example in buckling calculations. The method allows simple calculation of tangent and secant modulus and Poissonchr(39)s ratio but calculation of stress at a given strain or at a ratio of stress to tangent modulus is less easy. For that case approximate equations are given or an exact solution may be obtained using a Fortran program provided on disc (uncompiled) in the software volume as ESDUpac A7616. Tables list the two constants that define the compressive stress/strain curve for 29 aircraft specification materials. |