Inversion of Three-Stage Stress-Strain Relation for Stainless Steel in Tension and Compression
Abstract:
Presented in this paper is a new stress-strain relation for stainless steel alloys that provides the stress as an explicit function of the strain.The relation is an approximate inversion of a recently proposed three-stage stress-strain relation based on a modified Ramberg-Osgood equation.The three-stage relation is a much more accurate formulation than the previous two-stage formulations and is applicable to both tensile as well as compressive stresses.The new relation is derived by making a rational functi...