Semi-Crystalline Polymers Applied to Taylor Impact Test: Constitutive, Experimental and FEM Analysis

Abstract

Based on mechanical properties of Polyamide 66 (PA66) under complex loading conditions, a Drucker–Prager yield criterion was employed to characterize its yield behavior. Then, a one-dimensional model, which contains a viscoelastic regime and a viscoplastic regime, was introduced and converted into a three-dimensional constitutive model. The three-dimensional model was implemented into a LS-DYNA software, which was used to predict the dynamic response of PA66 under Taylor impact conditions, whose corresponding tests were conducted by gas gun and recorded by high-speed camera. By contrasting the simulation results and these of the corresponding tests, the deformed shapes including the residual length, the maximum diameter and the shape of the mushroom head of the PA66 bars were found to be similar to these obtained from the tests, which verified the accuracy of the three-dimensional constitutive model, and proved that the model was able to be applied to high-rate impact loading conditions.

Keywords

• semi-crystalline polymers
• constitutive model
• Taylor impact
• LS-DYNA
• finite element simulation