Hubert Lobo
DatapointLabs
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DatapointLabs: Expert material testing… since 1995
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Material properties for product development Certified – Plastic
• Over 1,000 materials tested each year
– Rubber
• Wide variety of materials
• Over 200 types of physical properties – Film
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• 25 CAE codes supported – Foam
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Problem statement and needs
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Plastics Behavior - Basics
Non-linear elasticity 35
Elastic limit well below classical yield
30
point
Significant plastic strains prior to yield 25
Post-yield with necking behavior
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data
EngineeringStress(MPa)
15 Plastic Point
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0
0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0
Engineering Strain (%)
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Plastics Rate Effects
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Plastics Rate Effects
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Effect of fiber fillers
Higher modulus
Small strain to failure
Brittle failure
No post-yield behavior
Anisotropy
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Material Testing
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Test Specimens
ASTM D638Type V
gate region
Preparation
• CNC from plaque
• CNC from part
• Molded
Variability
E1
• processing
• orientation
E2
• thickness
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Creating Harmonized Pedigreed Datasets
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Material Dataset loaded to Matereality
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MAT 24 – Ductile plastics
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MAT 24 Automated data conversion
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Rate Dependency Tuning
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Modeling Post-Yield & Failure
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Writing the material file
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MAT24 validation
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LS-DYNA Simulation
40 Tensile Experiment
MAT 24 Model
Stress (MPa)
30
20
10
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0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3
Strain (mm/mm)
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MAT 24 – Fail Limitations
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MAT 24 – Rate Dependency
Cowper Symonds
• Does not correlate well with
plastics rate dependency 40
LCSR
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• Capture model independent
behavior 30
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data
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1.E-02 1.E-01 1.E+00 1.E+01 1.E+02
Strain Rate(/s)
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MAT 24 – LCSR-Eyring
Eyring Model
• Yield stress v. log strain rate is linear
• Best form for plastics
Fit yield stress v. log strain rate data to Eyring equation
Submit as table using LCSR
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MAT 19 – Brittle plastics
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MAT 19 – Methodology
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MAT 89 – Ductile-brittle
Non-linear behavior
Failure depends on strain rate
Can handle ductile-brittle transitions
Uses stress-strain curve
Limited to shell elements
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MAT 89 – Methodology
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MAT 89 – Workings
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Conclusions
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