Abstract
We study localization occurring during high-speed shear deformations of metals leading to the formation of shear bands. The localization instability results from the competition between Hadamard instability (caused by softening response) and the stabilizing effects of strain rate hardening. We consider a hyperbolic–parabolic system that expresses the above mechanism and construct self-similar solutions of localizing type that arise as the outcome of the above competition. The existence of self-similar solutions is turned, via a series of transformations, into a problem of constructing a heteroclinic orbit for an induced dynamical system. The dynamical system is in four dimensions but has a fast–slow structure with respect to a small parameter capturing the strength of strain rate hardening. Geometric singular perturbation theory is applied to construct the heteroclinic orbit as a transversal intersection of two invariant manifolds in the phase space.
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Appendices
The Loss of Hyperbolicity for \(n = 0\)
Consider the system (1) when \(n=0\), that is, the viscoplastic effects are neglected. Then, (2) reads
and (1) is written as a first-order system
We check hyperbolicity for (66). The characteristic speeds are the roots of
The system is thus hyperbolic when \(\tau _\theta \tau + \tau _\gamma > 0\) and elliptic in the t-direction when \(\tau _\theta \tau + \tau _\gamma < 0\). Observe that along the evolution of (66) and under the conditions for loading of interest in our problem, we have that \(\gamma \) is increasing; the equation
implies that
We conclude that the system is hyperbolic before the maximum of the stress–strain curve and elliptic beyond the maximum point. For the constitutive law (65), a computation shows
In the region \(\alpha > m\), the stress–strain curve may be initially increasing (depending on the data) but eventually decreases.
The system (66) admits the class of uniform shearing solutions
where \(\gamma _0\), \(\theta _0>\) are the initial strain and temperature, respectively. We linearize around the uniform shearing solution by setting
and obtain the linearized system satisfied by the perturbation \(({\hat{V}}, {\hat{\Theta }}, {\hat{\Gamma }} )\),
The above calculation shows that when \(\alpha > m\), the linearized system loses hyperbolicity in finite time, past the maximum of the curve \(\sigma _s (t) - t\).
The Equilibria of the System (S)
We discussed in Sect. 5 the equilibria \(M_0\) and \(M_1\) of (S). The remaining equilibria of (S) are listed below, and they are all functions of \((\alpha ,m,n,\lambda )\) that lie outside thesector
in the parameter range (23). The reader will find underlined the components, indicating that the equilibrium lies outside the sector of interest: we recall the notations
while t, \(t_1\) and \(t_2\) denote arbitrary real numbers.
The generic equilibria in \(\mathscr {P}\) are \(M_0\), \(M_1\), (1), (3–4), (6), and (11–12); the rest are valid for specific parameter values.
The Linearized Problems Around \(M_0\) and \(M_1\)
The coefficient matrix for the linearized system (S) around the equilibrium \(M_0\) is
The corresponding eigenvectors \(X_{0j}\) are collected in the matrix \(S_0\) as jth column vector, \(j=1,2,3,4\).
where \(\Delta _1 = \frac{1-s_0}{\lambda }\big (\frac{1+\alpha }{\lambda }r_0 + \frac{2}{s_0}\big ) -\frac{n}{r_0} \big ( \frac{1}{\lambda } + 2\big )\big (\frac{r_0}{\lambda } + \frac{2}{s_0}\big )\) and \(\Delta _2 = \frac{1-s_0}{\lambda }\big (\frac{1+\alpha }{\lambda }r_0 + \frac{1}{s_0}\big ) -\frac{n}{r_0} \big ( \frac{1}{\lambda } + 1\big )\big (\frac{r_0}{\lambda } + \frac{1}{s_0}\big )\). We find that \(y_1,y_2,y_4<0\); \(z_1,z_2,z_3 \sim {O}(n)\), provided n is sufficiently small.
Next, the coefficient matrix for the linearized system around \(M_1\) is
In what follows, we examine all possible cases: except for the case \(\mu _{11}=\mu _{12}=-1\), four linearly independent eigenvectors are attained. In the exceptional case \(\mu _{11}=\mu _{12}=-1\), the repeated eigenvalue \(-1\) has geometric multiplicity which is strictly less that its algebraic multiplicity.
As to the eigenvectors, notice that the eigenvalues for \(M_1\) (differently from those for \(M_0\)) have the chance to be repeated. The analysis below shows that, unless \(\mu _{11}=\mu _{12}=-1\), four linearly independent eigenvectors are attained. If the exceptional case takes place, then we will supplement precisely one generalized eigenvector for the repeated eigenvalue \(-1\).
Case 1\(-\frac{1+m+n}{\alpha -m-n}\ne -1\); or\(-\frac{1+m+n}{\alpha -m-n}= -1\)but\(b=\lambda \). This case yields four linearly independent eigenvectors. The eigenvectors \(X_{1j}\) are collected in the matrix \(S_1\) as jth column vector, \(j=1,2,3,4\), and in the case of repeated eigenvalues the corresponding eigenvectors are understood as a basis for the associated subspace:
where
respectively, for the corresponding cases.
Case 2\(-\frac{1+m+n}{\alpha -m-n}= -1\)and\(b\ne \lambda \): for this case, \(\mu _{11} = \mu _{12} = -1\) has algebraic multiplicity two, but its geometric multiplicity is one, so we replace the first column of \(S_1\) by the generalized eigenvector \(\big (\frac{1}{(b-\lambda )r_1}, 0, y_1', z_1'\big )^T\), where
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Lee, MG., Katsaounis, T. & Tzavaras, A.E. Localization in Adiabatic Shear Flow Via Geometric Theory of Singular Perturbations. J Nonlinear Sci 29, 2055–2101 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-019-09538-3
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Keywords
- Localization
- Shear bands
- Geometric theory of singular perturbations
- Self-similarity
Mathematics Subject Classification
- 74H35
- 74R15
- 74D10
- 34E15
- 35F55