Abstract
Attempts to validate constitutive relations at high rates of strain have often used finite element codes, incorporating the proposed constitutive relation, to predict the deformed shape of a given component, e.g. an explosively formed projectile or a Taylor impact test specimen, resulting from the high-rate loading. A more sensitive check, however, of the validity of the given constitutive relation, is its ability to predict the loads required to produce this deformed shape. Use of the Hopkinson-bar test, where the load at which the specimen deforms may be measured, allows such a check to be made. In the present paper tensile Hopkinson-bar tests are performed on Remco iron specimens and high-speed photography is used to monitor the changing specimen geometry, allowing a further check of the validity of the proposed constitutive relation to be made in terms of its ability to predict the observed reduction in diameter at the neck. In addition a thermal imaging camera monitors the specimen surface temperature following the high-speed deformation and allows a comparison to be made between the temperature profile measured experimentally and that predicted in the numerical analysis using two forms of constitutive relation.
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