Cyclic stress-strain behavior of structural steel with yield-strength up to 460 N/mm²

Abstract

This paper presents a constitutive model based on Ramberg-Osgood equation to describe the hysteresis material behavior of structural carbon steel with nominal yield strength between 235 to 420 N/mm². The proposed model was calibrated against a series of cyclic material tests with strain amplitude varying from 0.5% to 2.0%. A simple relationship between the modular parameter K and the yield strength f_y was proposed. The calibrated Ramberg-Osgood model revealed excellent agreement with the experimental results and captured further the experimental behavior of test specimens with nominal yield strength of 460 N/mm². The proposed constitutive model was also adopted in conjunction with the combined kinematic/isotropic materials description in ABAQUS to mimic a full scale experimental test under cyclic loading. The numerical results revealed close agreement with the experimental observations.

Keywords

constitutive model / finite element analysis / hysteresis curve / Ramberg-Osgood equation

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to kindly acknowledge Kwanghua Foundation from Tongji University, the Warwick China Partnership Fund from the University of Warwick, Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I020489/1) for their support toward the third author as a visiting scholar at Tongji University. The support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51038008) is also greatly appreciated.

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