The stress-strain relationships for several commercial artificial graphites in compression have been studied. These stress-strain relationships have been found to satisfy the following empirical formula up to the breaking point:
ε=Bσ/S
o-A (O≤σ≤S
o)
where σ is compressive stress, ε is strain, S
o is compressive strength and A and B are constants determined according to the specimen. It was shown that the apparent modulus of elasticity decreases linearly with increasing stress.
And the relationship between the young's modulus and the compressive strength was discussed in the above equation. A plasto-elasticity model was put forward which describes the experimental results of stress-strain behavior, and the stress-strain relationship on stress cycling was derived theoretically from this model.
The experimental results on stress cycling were then compared with theoretical values.
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