Dynamic shear band propagation and micro-structure of adiabatic shear band. (Q5955340)

A meshfree Galerkin approximation, reproducing kernel particle method, is used in the displacement-based explicit formulation to simulate dynamic shear band propagation as well as microstructures of adiabatic shear bands. The main advantages of using meshfree interpolants are two: (i) it can effectively avoid mesh-alignment sensitivity that finite element methods suffer; (ii) it can relieve mesh distortion, when modeling stress collapsing state of the adiabatic shear band, as a purely plastic fluid in Lagrangian formulation. The presented simulations of dynamic shear band propagation faithfully replicate the entire process of failure mode transition at various impact speeds. The impact event is modeled as a rigid projectile, colliding with a single pre-notched plate. First, the authors present an explicit meshfree Galerkin formulation of the above problem. Then, based on the rate form of balance energy, the coupled thermo-elasto-viscoplastic problem is reduced to a mechanical one. Constitutive update follows the adiabatic rate tangent modulus formula. The main assumption of this work is that the stress collapsing within the fully developed shear band will significantly reduce the shear stress carrying capability of the localization zone, and it will lead to the localized strain rate concentration at the shear band tip, thus initiating the advancement of the localization zone. The authors use a separate constitutive relation to model the stress collapsing state inside the adiabatic shear band, and call this type of approach as a multiple physics modeling. It is found that the temperature field, and effective stress and effective strain fields within the strain localization zone are dynamically structured, which conforms to known experimental results. The thermo-mechanical instability within the adiabatic shear band causes periodic temperature distribution in space as well as in time.