Cyclic Plasticity Behavior of Mild Steel with Special Emphasis on Yield-Point Phenomena.

Abstract

Annealed steels exhibit a sharp yield point and the subsequent abrupt yield drop followed by the yield plateau (Luders deformation) in their stress-strain curve of uniaxial tension. This paper provides some typical examples of experimental data of cyclic plasticity with special emphasis on the yield-point phenomena for an annealed mild steel, i.e., uniaxial tension at several crosshead speeds;cyclic straining;stress- and strain-controlled ratchetting. In order to describe the stress-strain response characteristics such as the yield-point phenomena, cyclic hardening/softening, the Baus-chinger effect and rate-dependent ratchetting, constitutive modelling of cyclic elasto-viscoplasticity is discussed on the premise that the sharp yield point and the subsequent abrupt yield drop result from the rapid dislocation multiplication and the stress-dependence of dislocation velocity.