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SUPERVISOR
MohammadReza Forouzan,Mahmood Meratian isfahani
محمدرضا فروزان (استاد راهنما) محمود مراتیان اصفهانی (استاد مشاور)
 
STUDENT
Seyyid Shoya Mohseni Mofidi
سیدشعیا محسنی مفیدی

FACULTY - DEPARTMENT

دانشکده مهندسی مکانیک
DEGREE
Master of Science (MSc)
YEAR
1389

TITLE

Determining the Elastic Constants of Gasar Porous Metals by Means of Finite Element Simulation
Gasar or Lotus-type porous metals are a new type of porous material, which is distinguished by elongated unidirectional pores. Such unidirectional pores contribute to many advantageous mechanical and thermal properties, which cannot be observed in any other type of porous material. This makes the gasar porous metals very attractive for use in modern engineering applications. Using of these materials for designing new and special structure requires a complete understanding of deformation behavior of these materials. Since, preparing various types of test specimens from a Gasar ingot is usually impossible or very costly, finite element simulation can be a useful tool to get a better understanding of behavior of these materials. In this study a homogenization process is used for determining the elastic constants of Gasar porous metals. The concept of homogenization is the replacement of a heterogeneous medium by a homogeneous equivalent one and to make a bridge between these two mediums a certain volume of the heterogeneous specimen, for which predicted behavior is identical to behavior of the whole specimen, called representative volume element (RVE), is needed. Therefore determining a proper RVE to predict the elastic constants with a good accuracy is the most important goal of this study. An algorithm is proposed to generate computational model for volume elements. In this algorithm some statistical information about pore topologies, obtained by analysis of Gasar real microstructure, is considered. The pores diameter distribution in surface perpendicular to pores elongation direction is assumed to have a normal distribution. Also pores diameter distribution is kept constant along the pores elongation direction throughout the volume and all the pores have an identical aspect ratio. In numerical approaches an exact RVE according to the classical definitions cannot be used and using RVE with a smaller size is inevitable. This RVE results to apparent values for desired properties that differ from the effective properties. Thus, averaging over the several realizations can be used to diminish this difference between apparent and effective properties. In this study a numerical-statistical approach, based on statistical analysis of the results obtained for several realizations, is applied to determine suitable size for RVE by which desired properties can be predicted with a given and acceptable accuracy. In order to examine the effects of increasing the width and the length of volume elements separately on determining the proper size of RVE two series of volume elements are considered. After determining the proper RVE for Gasar porous magnesium with 40% porosity in first step, in second step for verifying the accuracy of proposed algorithm for generating computational models, the elastic constants of Gasar porous copper with 17.4%, 31.1% and 59.1% porosities are predicted by RVE determined in first step then the obtained results are compared with experimental data and it is shown that the proposed algorithm for generating computational models with defined RVE size can predict the elastic constants of Gasar porous metals with low and intermediate porosities with a good accuracy. keyword: Gasar or Lotus-type porous metals; homogenization process; representative volume element(RVE); elastic constants.
فلزات متخلخل گازار یا نیلوفرگون گونه ای جدید از مواد متخلخل می باشند که به واسطه حفره های کشیده شده و تقریبا استوانه ای شکل، علاوه بر خواص فیزیکی تمام فلزات متخلخل معمول از استحکام بسیار خوبی برخوردارند. برای این که بتوان از این مواد در طراحی های جدید استفاده کرد، شناخت کامل از رفتار فیزیکی آن ها امری غیر قابل اجتناب می باشد. بدین منظور با استفاده از شبیه سازی اجزاء محدود رفتار این مواد می تواند اطلاعات بسیار مفیدی را در اختیار ما قرار دهد. در این تحقیق با استفاده از داده های آماری ریز ساختار این مواد، ریز ساختاری برای نمونه های اجزاء محدود ارائه شد. به منظور همگن سازی رفتار الاستیک فلزات متخلخل گازار و یافتن ثوابت الاستیک موثر، المان های حجمی با این ریز ساختار ودر اندازه های مختلف تولید شدند و تحت شرایط مرزی مختلف قرار گرفتند تا بتوان ابعاد المان حجمی نماینده مناسب را یافت. سپس ثوابت الاستیک حاصل از پاسخ این المان حجمی نماینده با ریز ساختار ارائه شده، با نتایج آزمایشگاهی مقایسه شدند که مشاهده شد برای تخلخل های کم و متوسط می توان با استفاده از المان حجمی نماینده ای با ابعاد تعیین شده و با ریز ساختار ارائه شده ثوابت الاستیک را با دقت خوبی پیش بینی کرد. کلمات کلیدی: 1-فلزات متخلخل گازار یا نیلوفرگون 2-همگن سازی 3-المان حجمی نماینده 4-ثوابت الاستیک

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