The experimental verification of the evolution of kinematic and isotropic hardening in cyclic plasticity

Abstract

S imple plastic shear, plastic torsion, cyclic plastic shear, cyclic plastic tension-compression and out of phase tests of 18G2A and 21CrMoV57 steel were performed. The specimens were loaded monotonically and cyclically with constant effective strain rate under controlled amplitude of plastic strains at room temperature. Using the technique of successive unloadings, the standard physical quantities and the stress jumps corresponding to opposite directions of plastic straining were measured. For the Huber-Mises yield surface such results enable the evolution of kinematic and isotropic hardening for such programs to be followed. The results obtained show new effects concerning the influence of strain history on cyclic plasticity and can be useful for verification of existing theoretical approaches and stimulation of new theoretical ideas.