The Dynamic Yield Strength of Steel at an Intermediate Rate of Loading

Abstract

A comparison has been made between the dynamic and static tensile yield strengths of eight steels varying from mild steel to a heat-treated low-alloy steel, the rate of loading in the dynamic tests being such as would occur in a ship under the action of an underwater explosion. The dynamic yield strength of the steels with low static strength was 20–30 per cent greater than their static yield strength but, for the stronger steels, the increase was less, being negligible in the case of the heat-treated low-alloy steel. This result conforms with the findings of other investigators, and shows that any increase in strength under the dynamic loading considered is too small to be of importance in design.