WIT Press


Identification Of Elasto-viscoplastic Material Properties From Indentation Testing Using An Inverse Method

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

62

Pages

12

Page Range

127 - 138

Published

2009

Size

501 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SECM090121

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G. Rauchs & J. Bardon

Abstract

A combination of finite element modelling with gradient-based numerical optimization is used to determine the material parameters of a mechanical constitutive law from indentation testing by minimizing a cost function, quantifying the difference between load versus displacement-into-surface curves obtained from experiments and from finite element modelling. The required gradients of the cost function are calculated through a sensitivity analysis based on the direct differentiation method. Approximate correlation or cosine matrices will be calculated for assessing parameter correlation and used for designing load histories, which improve the parameter correlation in indentation testing. Finally, experimental indentation curves from metallic materials will be analyzed using the inverse method. The impact on material parameter identification of indenter tip size and of the incorporation of residual imprint data, obtained by white light interferometry, into the objective function will be monitored. Keywords: indentation testing, finite element modelling, numerical optimization.

Keywords

indentation testing, finite element modelling, numerical optimization