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Original Articles

An analysis of piling-up or sinking-in behaviour of elastic–plastic materials under a sharp indentation

Pages 2367-2380 | Received 24 Oct 2003, Accepted 25 Feb 2004, Published online: 21 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

Finite-element simulation has been carried out to investigate the piling-up or sinking-in behaviour of elastic–plastic strain-hardening materials under a sharp indentation. An empirical model is proposed to relate the contact area to the material parameter Ey and the experimental parameter h e/h max. Materials with Ey<89.07 in the limit of vanishing friction and Ey<150.7 for a friction coefficient μ = 0.2 may show only sinking-in. Other materials may show either piling-up or sinking-in depending on the h e/h max ratio or strain-hardening exponent. There is no universal h e/h max ratio that can be used to predict the piling-up or sinking-in behaviour of materials. Rather, the critical h e/h max ratio or strain-hardening exponent for no piling-up or sinking-in is a function of Ey. The piling-up or sinking-in behaviour of materials is found to be closely related to fully plastic deformation. The influence of friction on the amount of piling-up or sinking-in has also been considered in this study.

Acknowledgements

This research has been supported by The Brinell Centre—Inorganic Interfacial Engineering, which is funded by The Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and the following industrial partners: AB Sandvik Coromant, Seco Tools AB, AB Sandvik Hard Materials and Erasteel Kloster AB.

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