The strain rate intensity factor and its applications: a review

The present paper concerns with the concept of the strain rate intensity factor in rigid plastic solids. The strain rate intensity factor is the coefficient of the principal singular term in the expansion of the equivalent strain rate in a series in the vicinity of maximum friction surfaces. Such singular velocity fields appear in solutions based on several rigid plastic models. Because of this singularity in the velocity field, many conventional evolution equations for material properties are not compatible with such rigid plastic solutions. On the other hand, qualitative behaviour of the singular rigid plastic solutions in the vicinity of maximum friction surfaces is in agreement with a number of experimental results. Therefore, the primary objective of research in this direction is to develop an approach to relate parameters of the singular velocity fields and parameters characterizing material properties. The approaches proposed in previous works are based on the strain rate intensity factor. In the case of analytical and semi-analytical solutions the strain rate intensity factor can be found by means of an asymptotic analysis of the solutions. A number of such solutions obtained by inverse methods are reviewed in the present paper and the strain rate intensity factor is found. An effect of process parameters on its magnitude is shown and discussed.