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Conversion of Plastic Work to Heat: A full-field study of thermomechanical coupling

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1475249· OSTI ID:1475249

This project targeted a full-field understanding of the conversion of plastic work into heat using advanced diagnostics (digital image correlation, DIC, combined with infrared, IR, imaging). This understanding will act as a catalyst for reformulating the prevalent simplistic model, which will ultimately transform Sandia's ability to design for and predict thermomechanical behavior, impacting national security applications including nuclear weapon assessments of accident scenarios. Tensile 304L stainless steel dogbones are pulled in tension at quasi-static rates until failure and full-field deformation and temperature data are captured, while accounting for thermal losses. The IR temperature fields are mapped onto the DIC coordinate system (Lagrangian formulation). The resultant fields are used to calculate the Taylor-Quinney coefficient, β, at two strain rates rates (0.002 s-1 and 0.08 s-1) and two temperatures (room temperature, RT, and 250°C).

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
OSTI ID:
1475249
Report Number(s):
SAND--2018-10763; 668311
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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