25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-P3.12

EFFECTS OF GEOMETRY ASPECTS ON THE SIMULATION OF SUPERPLASTICITY IN MMC COMPOSITES

A. Abedian, A. Barakati, A. Malekpour
Sharif Univ. of Technology, Iran

Keywords: Superplasticity, Finite Element Method, Metal Matrix Composite

Under a thermal cycle and in simultaneous presence of a constant mechanical load and considering elastic-perfectly plastic behavior it was shown that the plastic strain linearly increases with the increase in number of thermal cycles for each one of four constant applied loads.

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