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A new apparatus – “Dropkinson Bar” – has been successfully developed for material property characterization at intermediate strain rates. This Dropkinson bar combines a drop table and a Hopkinson bar. The drop table was used to generate a relatively long and stable low-speed impact to the specimen, whereas the Hopkinson bar principle was applied to measure the load history with accounting for inertia effect in the system. Pulse shaping technique was also applied to the Dropkinson bar to facilitate uniform stress and strain as well as constant strain rate in the specimen. The Dropkinson bar was then used to characterize 304L stainless steel and 6061-T6 aluminum at a strain rate of ∼600 s−1. The experimental data obtained from the Dropkinson bar tests were compared with the data obtained from conventional Kolsky tensile bar tests of the same material at similar strain rates. Both sets of experimental results were consistent, showing the newly developed Dropkinson bar apparatus is reliable and repeatable.
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Song, B. et al. (2019). Development of “Dropkinson” Bar for Intermediate Strain-Rate Testing. In: Kimberley, J., Lamberson, L., Mates, S. (eds) Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95089-1_12
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