An experimental study on subsequent yield surface after finite shear prestraining

Abstract

An equimodulus surface is introduced and the subsequent yield surface after large finite shear prestraining is experimentally investogated. Fully annealed, thin-walled copper tubular specimens were subjected to large torsional loading and partial unloading; strain gages were carefully mounted on the specimen after the application of pure shear loading. Specimens were then subjected to various combined tension-torsion loadings. Influences of he von Mises and Tresca equivalent offset strains on the subsequent yield surfaces are studied. On examining the experimental results reported in this article, it was found that the smaller the offset strains, the more distorted are the subsequent yield surfaces. At the torsional preloading point, a rounded corner was developed, whereas in the region opposite to the preloading point, the subsequent yield surface was flattened. When large von Mises offset strains were used, the corresponding subsequent yield surfaces passed through the von Mises loading surface. But this was not the case when Tresca offset strains were used. The subsequent yield surface determined by the back extrapolation method was almost completely outside the von Mises loading surface. On the other hand, the subsequent yield surface determined by the back extrapolation method was close to the Tresca loading surface. It is also found that the equimodulus surface is distorted and cannot simply be described by the combined kinematic and isotropic hardening rule.