Jozef Bocko¹, Ingrid Delyová^1,, Peter Sivák¹, Marián Tomko¹

The paper is focused on the process of selecting a suitable material plasticity model. Such a model would be used in the future numerical analysis of the behaviour of selected structural elements in the elastic-plastic deformation of the steel in the SolidWorks software environment. These analyzes should include monitoring the behaviour of the material under the conditions of its plastic reinforcement (strain - hardening). Numerical modelling used two models of plasticity, namely the von Mises and Tresca's models. Subsequently, a comparison of the match between the real load-deformation diagram, possibly stress-strain diagram, obtained by the experimental static tensile test and the diagram obtained from the numerical simulation of two different steel-based structural materials was performed. The results of the dual tensile test analysis showed that the von Mises model achieves greater consistency with the tensile curve based the actual tensile test. Therefore, this model will be later used in subsequent numerical simulations of the material under the conditions of its plastic reinforcement.

plastic deformation, model of plasticity, experimental and numerical analysis