An Exponential Stress-Strain Law for Cyclic Plasticity

Abstract

A previously proposed nonlinear differential constitutive equation for creep-plasticity interaction under a uniaxial state of stress is specialized for the time independent case. The characteristics of the second derivative of the stress-strain diagram are matched by an exponential function. The integration yields higher transcendental functions. For the matching of the stress-strain diagram, four easily obtainable constants are necessary at each cycle which are fed into a newly developed FORTRAN computer program. A plotting routine yields stress-strain diagrams and hysteresis loops. The procedure gives good matches for stress-strain diagrams of Type 304 stainless steel. Specifically, stress-strain diagrams for various product forms and the initial cyclic hardening of this material are reproduced quite accurately without the usual decomposition into elastic and plastic strains.