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After the yield stress and up to the ultimate strength (UTS) the curve exhibits strain hardening.
This is a way the material can carry more load even with a reduction in cross-sectional area
(caused by the shearing of molecular bonds). The stress will continue to increase with strain
as long as the strain hardening can compensate for this reduction in area. Once it can no
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longer compensate, at the UTS, the cross-sectional area changes faster than the increase in
stress and a strain softening response is seen, up to failure. The maximum point on the curve,
UTS, occurs due to geometrical effects but does not describe the actual stress state in the
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If determining the actual stress state of the material is of importance, e.g. for use in a finite
element simulation; then a different metric will be need to be used to describe the material
behavior. Knowing this and how to convert the reported data is key. Lets convert it for use in
a simulation.
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First off, only so much information can be obtained from this data. The equations that relate
engineering stress and strain to the true stress and strain of the material are valid up to the
UTS. Afterwards, the instantaneous cross-sectional area would need to be measured in test to
derive what the true stress and strain relationship was.
Once the material has gone plastic, further deformation is isochoric. The plastic-flow regime
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has a negligible change in volume, i.e. the Poissons ratio is close to 0.5. This allows for the
change in length to be related to the change in area and the engineering stress strain (e-
e) data can be converted into true stress-strain (t-t) data up to the UTS with the following
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Structural analysis codes may require that the stress strain data be input in terms of the
True Stress versus the True Plastic Strain. In which case, the data can be converted as
follows:
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Calculate the Modulus = True Stress at Yield / True Total Strain at Yield
Next, convert the Engineering (/home) data to True data based on the equations above. Then
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subtract off the True Elastic Strain from the True Total Strain at each point to find the True
Plastic Strain (True Plastic Strain = True Total Strain True Stress / Modulus).
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