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Metal Forming Stress Analysis Tutorial

The document contains tutorial problems related to deformation processing and metal forming, focusing on stress states, principal stresses, shear and normal stresses, and strain calculations. It includes various scenarios involving stress tensors, direction cosines, and yielding criteria. The problems require calculations based on given stress states and material properties.

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Metal Forming Stress Analysis Tutorial

The document contains tutorial problems related to deformation processing and metal forming, focusing on stress states, principal stresses, shear and normal stresses, and strain calculations. It includes various scenarios involving stress tensors, direction cosines, and yielding criteria. The problems require calculations based on given stress states and material properties.

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MM3041 Deformation Processing and Metal Forming

Tutorial sheet #1

1. The stress state at a point is given by the stress tensor


æ 5 3 2ö
ç ÷
s = ç 3 10 4 ÷ N/mm2
ç 2 4 6÷
è ø
Calculate the tractions along the three axes, the normal stress, the shear stress and the
total stress acting on a plane with direction cosines ( 1 2, 1 3, 1 6 ).
2. For the above problem, what are the normal and shear stresses acting on a plane
equally inclined to the three axes?
3. The stress state at a point is given by the three principal stresses 100, 120 and 200
MPa. Determine the shear and normal stresses on a plane whose normal has the
direction cosines ( 1 2, 1 2 , 0 ).
4. The stress state at a point is given by
æ10 4 0 ö
ç ÷
s = ç 4 12 0 ÷ N/mm2
ç 0 0 0÷
è ø
Determine the principal stresses.
5. Determine the principal stresses for the following stress state. The stresses are in
N/mm2.
æ 0 10 0 ö
ç ÷
s = ç10 0 0 ÷
ç 0 0 0÷
è ø
6. The stress state at a point is given by the three principal stresses 100, -150 and 200
MPa. Determine the normal and shear stresses on the octahedral plane.
7. For the stress state wherein s11 = 180 MPa, s22 = 40 MPa, s12 = 30 MPa and all other
stress components are 0, determine the principal stresses and the maximum shear
stresses.
8. In a plane stress system sx = 50 T/in2, sy = 10 T/in2 and txy = 10 T/in2. What are the
principal stresses and their directions? (T = Tonnes and in = inch)
9. If the stress system in Prob. 11 just causes yielding, what is the uniaxial flow strength
of the material according to (a) the von Mises and (b) the Tresca criteria?
10. If the same material of Prob. 12 is subjected to a stress system given by sx = 30 T/in2,
sy = 30 T/in2, sz = 10 T/in2 and txy = 10 T/in2, would the material yield?
11. A compressive load of 400 T applied to a well-lubricated cube of metal with 3.16 in
side just causes yielding. What load would be required if the other sides were
constrained by forces of 100 T and 200 T respectively? Use both von Mises and
Tresca criteria.
MM3041 Deformation Processing and Metal Forming
Tutorial sheet #2

1. A rectangular mild steel specimen of length 100 mm is extended to 120 mm.


Neglecting the elastic deformation and assuming that the material is isotropic,
determine the true strains in the length, width and thickness directions.
2. A stainless steel wire of length 250 mm is elongated to 306 mm. Determine the
engineering strain and the true strain. If the stainless steel hardens according to the
law s = 260 (1 + 21e)0.6 MPa where e is the effective plastic strain, determine the
yield strength after elongation.
3. In a tensile test, the 60 mm gauge length of the specimen is elongated to 72 mm.
Determine the yield strength after elongation if the material work hardens according
to the law 15.03 (0.01 + e)0.415 kgf/mm2.

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Retrieve the effective plastic strain from the extension, then use the work-hardening law to find the stress. For the specified elongation, compute the effective plastic strain using the formula for true strain and plug it into the given equation for yield strength to determine the new yield stress after elongation .

The principal stresses are found by solving the characteristic equation derived from the stress tensor. Set up the determinant |σ - λI| = 0, where σ is the stress tensor and λ represents the principal stress. Solving for λ yields the principal stresses for the given stress state .

The engineering strain is calculated using the formula ε = (L_final - L_initial) / L_initial = (306 mm - 250 mm) / 250 mm = 0.224. The true strain is calculated using the natural logarithm: ε_true = ln(L_final / L_initial) = ln(306 / 250) ≈ 0.202 .

To determine the normal and shear stresses on a plane with specified direction cosines, one must compute the traction vector using the stress tensor. The components of the traction vector on the plane are obtained by multiplying the stress tensor by the direction vector formed by the direction cosines. The normal stress is the component of this vector along the direction of the normal to the plane, while the shear stress is the vector's component perpendicular to this direction .

Using both von Mises and Tresca criteria, calculate the equivalent stress or maximum shear stress under constrained conditions. Adjust the applied load until the equivalent stress (von Mises) or half the maximum shear stress (Tresca) equals the uniaxial yield strength. This adjusted load is the critical load required to initiate yielding .

Direction cosines determine the orientation of the plane concerning the coordinate axes and modify the components of the traction vector. They influence how the stress tensor projects onto this direction, affecting the magnitude of normal and shear stresses calculated on the plane .

Principal stresses are the eigenvalues of the stress tensor. To calculate them, solve the characteristic equation derived from the determinant obtained by subtracting λ (stress magnitude) times the identity matrix from the given stress tensor, set to zero. For the specified stress state in the source document, solving this equation provides the principal stresses .

Transform the stress state using rotation matrices to express the normal and shear stresses on a new plane. The principal stresses provide the stress state, and the rotation matrix derived from the plane's direction cosines specifies how these stresses appear on the new plane .

For a plane stress system, principal stresses are determined by using stress transformation equations or Mohr's circle. The principal stresses are calculated from the average normal stress plus or minus the square root of half the difference of normal stresses squared plus four times the square of shear stress. The directions can be determined using the equation for principal stress directions theta = 0.5*atan(2*txy/(sx - sy)).

For von Mises criterion, the equivalent stress is calculated and compared to the yield strength; the material yields if the equivalent stress exceeds the yield strength. Tresca criterion involves comparing the maximum shear stress to half the yield strength. If the maximum shear stress exceeds this value, yielding occurs. Based on these calculations, whether a material yields under specific conditions can be determined .

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