Evaluating the Strength of Structural Materials Under Dynamic and Shock Loading in a Wide Range of Strain Rates.

The paper presents a shear strength model used to evaluate information of interest from shock experiments aimed at studying the properties of the hardened 30KhGSA steel and the MA14 magnesium alloy subjected to low- and high-intensity loadings. The model parameters are adjusted by experimental deformation curves obtained from static and dynamic tests at different temperatures and the data from shock experiments to account for strength variation at high strain rates. The simulation of low-intensity loading tests helped to improve the description of elastic-plastic properties and to adjust our failure model. The data from the shock experiments with high-intensity loading of 30KhGSA steel samples and unloading of the shocked samples in window materials were used to verify the phase diagram and the kinetics of direct and inverse phase transitions, and to determine more exactly how the changed phase state influences the strength. The model presented here has allowed us to reproduce the complicated strength behavior of the MA14 alloy at different loading intensities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]