The objective of this dissertation centers on gaining a better understanding of the structure - property - performance relations of nickel and copper through the advanced multiscale theoretical framework and integrated computational methods. The goal of this dissertation also includes to combine material science and computational mechanics to acquire a transformative understanding of how the different crystal orientations, size scales, and penetration velocities affect plastic deformation and damage behavior of metallic materials during high strain rate (> 103s-1) processes. A multiscale computational framework for understanding plasticity and shearing mechanisms of metallic materials during the high rate process was developed, which for the first time reveals micromechanical insights on how different crystal orientations, size scales, and penetration velocities affect the atomistic simulations which render structure property information for plasticity, shearing and damage mechanisms. The contributions of this dissertation include: (1) Comprehensive understanding of the plasticity and shearing mechanisms between the nickel penetrator and copper target under high strain rates (2) Development of a multiscale study of a nickel penetrator striking a copper plate by employing macroscale simulations and atomistic simulations to better understand the micromechanisms. (3) An essential description of how different crystal orientations, size scales, and strain rates affect the plasticity and shearing mechanisms.

The brain is a complex organ and its response to the mechanical loads at all strain rates has been nonlinear and inelastic in nature. Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) high strain rate compressive tests conducted on porcine brain samples showed a strain rate dependent inelastic mechanical behavior. Finite Element (FE) modeling of the SHPB setup in ABAQUS/Explicit, using a specific constitutive model (MSU TP Ver. 1.1) for the brain, showed non-uniform stress state during tissue deformation. Song et al.’s assertion of using annular samples for negating inertial effects was also tested. FE simulation results showed that the use of cylindrical or annular did not mitigate the initial hardening. Further uniaxial stress state was not maintained is either case. Experimental studies on hydration effects of the porcine brain on its mechanical response revealed two different phenomenological trends. The wet brain (~80% water wt. /wt.) showed strain rate dependency along with two unique mechanical behavior patterns at quasi-static and high strain rates. The dry brain’s (~0% water wt. /wt.) response was akin to the response of metals. The dry brain’s response also observed to be strain rate insensitivity in its elastic modulus and yield stress variations. Uncertainty analysis of the wet brain high strain rate data revealed large uncertainty bands for the sample-to-sample random variations. This large uncertainty in the brain material should be taken into in the FE modeling and design stages. FE simulations of blast loads to the human head showed that Pressure played a dominant role in causing blast-related Traumatic Brain Injury (bTBI). Further, the analysis of shock waves exposed the deleterious effect of the 3-Dimensional geometry of the skull in pinning the location of bTBI. The effects of peak negative Pressure at injury sites have been attributed to bTBI pathologies such as Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI), subdural hemorrhage and cerebral contusion.

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Mitigation of the blast risk associated with terrorist attacks and accidental explosions threatening critical infrastructure has become a topic of great interest in the civil engineering community, both in Canada and abroad. One method of mitigating blast risk is to retrofit vulnerable structures to resist the impulsive effects of blast loading. A comprehensive re-search program has been undertaken to develop fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) retrofit methodologies for structural and non-structural elements, specifically reinforced concrete slabs and walls, subjected to blast loading. The results of this investigation are equally valid for flexure dominant reinforced concrete beams subject to blast effects. The objective of the research program was to generate a large volume of research data for the development of blast-resistant design guidelines for externally bonded FRP retrofit systems. A combined experimental and analytical investigation was performed to achieve the objectives of the program. The experimental program involved the construction and simulated blast testing of a total of thirteen reinforced concrete wall and slab specimens divided into five companion sets. These specimens were subjected to a total of sixty simulated explosions generated at the University of Ottawa Shock Tube Testing Facility. Companion sets were designed to study one- and two-way bending, as well as the performance of specimens with simply-supported and fully-fixed boundary conditions. The majority of the specimens were retrofitted with externally bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets to improve overall load-deformation characteristics. Specimens within each companion set were subjected to progressively increasing pressure-impulse combinations to study component behaviour from elastic response up to inelastic component failure. The blast performance of companion as-built and retrofitted specimens was quantified in terms of measured load-deformation characteristics, and observed member behaviour throughout all stages of response. The results show that externally bonded FRP retrofits are an effective retrofit technique to improve the blast resistance of reinforced concrete structures, provided that debonding of the composite from the concrete substrate is prevented. The test results also indicate that FRP retrofitted reinforced concrete structures may survive initial inbound displacements, only to failure by moment reversals during the negative displacement phase. The experimental test data was used to verify analytical techniques to model the behaviour of reinforced concrete walls and slabs subjected to blast loading. The force-deformation characteristics of one-way wall strips were established using inelastic sectional and member analyses. The force-deformation characteristics of two-way slab plates were established using commonly accepted design approximations. The response of all specimens was computed by explicit solution of the single degree of freedom dynamic equation of motion. An equivalent static force procedure was used to analyze the response of CFRP retrofitted specimens which remained elastic after testing. The predicted maximum displacements and time-to-maximum displacements were compared against experimental results. The analysis indicates that the modelling procedures accurately describe the response characteristics of both retrofitted and unretrofitted specimens observed during the experiment.

A hydrocode and an explicit finite element code were used to evaluate functionally graded material impacts, meteor impacts, and split Hopkinson pressure bar specimens. Modeling impacts of functionally graded projectiles revealed that density was the primary material characteristic controlling the shock wave profile. A parametric study of material order for functionally graded armor showed that arranging the weaker material in front created the greater stopping power. By modeling an array of meteor impact scenarios, deformation and stress were shown to occur at great depths and possibly cause tectonic movement, like subduction. Three proposed Hopkinson specimens, which were designed to produce either shear or tensile reactions under compressive loading, were evaluated. For two of these specimens, improved stress and strain equations were presented.

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The optimisation of compressor stage aerofoil and fan blade design remains an important area of titanium alloy research and development for aerospace gas turbines. Such research has important implications for critical and sensitive component integrity and efficiency. In particular, a better understanding of how deformation twinning interacts with microstructural features in titanium alloys is required, because such twinning facilitates plastic deformation at a higher strain rate than dislocations. To investigate this behaviour, commercial purity titanium and the titanium alloy Ti–6Al–4V were subjected to ballistic impact testing at room temperature with a high strain rate of 10³s⁻¹. In addition, a detailed analysis was conducted of three manufacturing processes of Ti–6Al–4V (wt. %) that are likely to cause deformation twinning: metallic shot peening, laser shock peening and deep cold rolling. The results presented in this thesis have furthered the understanding of the role of deformation twinning in the plastic deformation of α-phase titanium. Key findings of the research include the characterisation of deformation twinning types and the conditions that favour certain deformation twinning types. From the analysis of the ballistic testing of commercial purity titanium, the first definitive evidence for the existence of {112‾4} twinning as a rare deformation twinning mode at room temperature in coarse-grained commercial purity titanium is presented. In addition, the ballistic testing results of the Ti–6Al–4V alloy highlighted very different deformation twinning characteristics. Commercial purity titanium deformed plastically by a combination of {101‾2} and {112‾1} tensilve twinning and {112‾4} and {112‾2} compression twinning modes. By contrast, the deformation twinning of Ti–6Al–4V was limited to only the {101‾2} and {112‾1} tensile twinning modes. The two tensile deformation twinning types have very different morphologies in equiaxed fine grained Ti–6Al–4V. {112‾1} deformation twins span multiple grain boundaries and {101‾2} deformation twins reorient entire grains to a twinned orientation. This observation provides evidence for whole grain twinning of equiaxed fine grained Ti–6Al–4V by {101‾2} twinning. Grain boundary interactions between various deformation twinning types and alpha phase grain boundaries in commercial purity titanium and Ti–6Al–4V are reported and analysed. In commercial purity titanium {101‾2} as well as other deformation twinning types were observed interacting across alpha phase boundaries and higher angle alpha phase grain boundaries. The analyses of the manufacturing processes of Ti–6Al–4V highlight the very different dislocation and deformation twinning structures in surfaces processed by these techniques. A notable feature of material processed by laser shock peening is the almost complete absence of deformation twinning, contrasting with the frequent observation of extensive deformation twinning observed in the material processed by metallic shot peening and deep cold rolling. Therefore, the findings suggest that there is a strain rate limit above which deformation twinning is suppressed. The implications of this research are that a better understanding of the conditions that that favour certain deformation twinning types or propagation behaviours will enable more accurate plasticity modelling and better alloy design. This is important for the design and the manufacturing of titanium components and the high strain rate deformation to which titanium components in aerospace gas turbines can be subjected because of bird strike, foreign object debris ingestion or fan blade failures.

The strain rate dependent behaviour of fine grained soils is an important aspect of geotechnical engineering. During dynamic or rapid events such as earthquakes and rapid pile testing, a fine grained soil will display significantly different behaviour than may be observed over the long life span of a structure. There is currently little understanding of the factors which influence the behaviour of fine grained soils during dynamic events (extremely high strain rates), making their response difficult to predict. This research investigates the behaviour of fine grained soils subjected to a wide range of constant strain rates in monotonic triaxial compression testing. Each test is conducted under drained conditions to observe the behaviour of soils as they transition from a drained response at lower strain rates, through to an undrained or viscous response at higher strain rate tests. Where the response of soils is drained or partially drained, higher strain rate tests measure a decrease in strength. The point of transition from partially drained to undrained behaviour corresponds to the lowest strain rate dependent strength. Further tests at higher strain rates measure consistently greater strength. The strain rate dependence of three fine grained soils is investigated, enabling a comparison of strain rate effects with soil index properties. The influence of initial state on the strain rate dependence of these Kaolin based model soils is also evaluated. The drained to partially drained response of the soils to strain rate increase is controlled by the coefficient of consolidation. Tests at high strain rates show the undrained or viscous strain rate effect on strength is related to liquidity index. Local strain instrumentation allowed comparison of strain rate effects on small strain stiffness. At higher strain rate the soils display increasingly linear behaviour. At non-linear elastic strains, liquidity index appears to control the magnitude of the strain rate effects on stiffness.

L’industrie automobile suit une politique d’allègement via l’introduction de matériaux plus légers et plus diversifiés dans la structure du véhicule. Parmi les techniques d’assemblages envisagées, le présent document se focalise sur le procédé de clouage grandevitesse. Des essais d’assemblages ont été réalisés en laboratoire sur de l’aluminium de fonderie, de l’acier DP780 et DP1180. La cinématique d’assemblage, les modes de ruptures, la réaction des tôles et les propriétés de la liaison sont étudiés. Des modèles matériaux ont été choisis pour rendre compte des phénomènes dynamiques et de rupture des tôles pendant l’assemblage. Le clou et les tôles ont ensuite été caractérisés mécaniquement dans plusieurs conditions de chargements et utilisés pour la calibration des modèles. Un modèle par éléments finis du clouage est crée; ses sensibilitées aux variations de maillage, frottement et modèle matériau sont évaluées et ses limitations capturées, soit par une pression d’assemblage inadaptées soit par la fragilité du clou. Des simulations de traction-croix et traction-cisaillement permettent finalement l’estimation des propriétés mécaniques de la liaison. / Lightweigthing structures using mixed material components have become one of the main target of automotive industry’s future. Among the joining processes under exploration, the present work focuses on High-Speed Nailing. Experimental campaigns are conducted under laboratory conditions on layers superposition made of cast aluminium, dual-phase steels DP780 and DP1180. Joining kinematics, sheets fracture modes, reaction the nail insertion and nailed-joint strengths are investigated in various conditions of experiment. Material models are chosen to account for the dynamic and fracture phenomena exhibit by materials in the joining stage. Mechanical tests are performed on nail and sheets materials under different strain-rates and stress-states and used as references for the calibration procedure. A finite element model of the joining stage is built; its sensitivity to mesh size, friction and material formulation is evaluated and its limitations captured by either inappropriate joining pressure setting or nail brittleness. After a new equilibrium is reached, the nailed-joint is tested through cross-tension and sheartension simulations to tackle the prediction of in-service properties.

La loi de comportement est un élément essentiel de la caractérisation mécanique des matériaux. Pour pouvoir identifier le comportement d'un matériau, il existe plusieurs méthodes expérimentales (traction statique, barres d'Hopkinson) qui permettent d'obtenir des lois mécaniques applicables dans des conditions bien définies et le plus souvent sur des matériaux massifs homogènes. La plupart de ces essais sont de plus couteux et exigent le plus souvent des géométries d'échantillons spécifiques. L'utilisation de ces tests reste limitée et ne permet pas d'analyser tous les types de matériaux comme les revêtements ou les matériaux poreux... par exemple. Or ces matériaux eux aussi nécessitent aujourd'hui une connaissance fine de leurs propriétés afin de permettre une simulation au plus juste de leur comportement en service. Les lois de comportement établies à l'échelle d'un matériau massif ne répondent également que partiellement aux besoins de modélisation de certains procédés detraitement mécanique de surface comme par exemple le grenaillage, car elles ne prennent pas en compte les effets de la surface. L'objectif principal de cette étude est de développer une méthode à la fois rapide et facile pour pouvoir identifier le comportement local des matériaux sous condition dynamique, afin de pouvoir caractériser les surfaces soumises à des sollicitations de type chocs. Pour atteindre cet objectif, une méthode inverse a été développée pour identifier le comportement des matériaux à l'aide d'une combinaison d'approche expérimentale et numérique d'essais d'impacts répétés. Les lois decomportements obtenues à l'aide de cette méthode inverse restent sujettes à caution car difficile à comparer à des valeurs de référence par manque de données dans la littérature. Pour cette raison ces lois seront ensuite comparées avec une méthode analytique inspirée de la théorie de l'indentation. Afin de valider l'efficacité de la méthode inverse et de la méthode analytique, des essais numériques à l'aveugle ont été menés, ensuite des applications sur des matériaux modèles et industriels ont été réalisées pour déterminer les limites des méthodes. / The behavior law is an essential element of the mechanical characterization of materials. To identify the material behavior several experimental methods can be used such as (static traction, Hopkinson bars ...) that allow to obtain mechanical laws applied under well-defined conditions, i.e. on homogeneous and bulk materials. However, do to the rising cost of these tests and their specific sample geometry, their use is limited and does not allow to probe and measure all types of materials (like coatings or porous materials....). Moreover, a broad knowledge of their properties allows a more accurate simulation of their behavior in working process. Behavior laws appropriate for bulk material do not always fit to process modeling shot peening, due to surface deformation. The main objective of this study is to develop a simple, rapid method for identifying the local behavior of materials under dynamic conditions, in order to characterize surfaces under impact loading. An inverse method has been developed to identify the behavior of materials using a combination of numerical and experimental approaches of repeated impact tests. The behavior laws obtained by the inverse method must be further investigated due to missing comparison data in literature. A comparison with an analytical method based on the theory of indentation must be carried out for more accuracy. In order to validate the efficiency of the inverse method and the analytical method, numerical blind tests wereconducted, then applications on industrial and ideal materials have been carried out to determine the limits.