DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17591440
title: Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) investigations of steel S355 specimens and complementary characterization methods

description: Contents and Supplementary Descriptions

The workbook SHPB_S355.xlsx contains in the main spreadsheet S355_TestOverview an overview on the S355 specimens, which were tested in Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) and complementary quasi-static (QS) tests. The tests were conducted with notched hat-shaped specimens without a notch offset (S355_TestOverview/column geometry: “no offset”) and a small notch offset of x=0.35 mm (S355_TestOverview/column geometry: “offset”), cf. Fig. 1 [1].  Furthermore, for selected specimens, links are provided to DIC and bar strain measurement files as well as to evaluations from further characterization methods (microhardness, EBSD). For the boundary conditions at the SHPB projectile impact, the pressures of the compressor p, driving the projectile, and the associated projectile impact velocities are provided in SHPB_S355.xlsx.

The DIC displacement measurements are provided in FurtherMeasurements/DIC with frame output times in the file labels, which are associated with an imaginary trigger at the left end of the shortened incident bar (length 300 mm), which is considered within the SHPB simulation setup, see [1]. Furthermore, the DIC reference coordinate systems are provided as COS.jpg files in the respective DIC folders. 

Starting from the strain signals at the bars, captured by strain gauges at the incident (file name BC_Inc) and transmission bar (BC_Trans), displacement boundary conditions (which are provided for the tests in FurtherMeasurements/BarDisplBCs) are calculated by eq. (12) in [1], incorporating the acoustic velocity equal to 4639 m/s at the bars and a correction factor. Fig. 1 shows the shear specimen geometry (lengths in mm) with the offset of the notches x.

For the quasi-static tests force(displacements)-values are directly provided in FurtherMeasurements/Fu_curves, which are considered from the relative displacements of the specimens, evaluated by DIC.

The Vickers microhardness (HV 0.01) distribution across the shear localization zone was assessed by QNESS 60A+ EVO (DIN EN ISO 6507-1) for quasi-statically and dynamically tested specimens, applying the small notch offset, such that the specimens did not fail in the localization region. Therefore, raw data is provided in FurtherMeasurements/Microhardness. For fitting the microhardness distribution perpendicularly to the shear bands (as i.e. provided for the SHPB specimen in [1]), representative microhardness profiles were considered. Similarly for specimens with the small notch offset, EBSD data on dynamic and quasi-static tests is provided in FurtherMeasurements/EBSD. The grain size distributions for positions at the notch and the undeformed region are included in the subdirectory ./GrainLists_Shortened and EBSD images in the PowerPoint Presentations. Further information as the sizes and misorientations of the single grains, is incorporated in the subfolders  ./GrainLists_FurtherInf. 

The authors express their gratitude to Daniel Kadoke for the DIC measurements, Olaf Mücke for support with measurement instruments and LabView, Peter Löwe for the quasi-static tests, and Steffen Thärig for the microhardness measurements. Furthermore, the EBSD measurements were executed by Romeo Saliwan Neumann.  We acknowledge financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany within project 427446414.

The datasets were used in the following publication:

[1] S. Jentzsch, D. Stock, R. Häcker, B. Skrotzki, R. Darvishi Kamachali, D. Klingbeil, V. Kindrachuk: Shear Band Formation with Split Hopkinson Bar Experiments. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 284 (2024) 109749 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109749