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For the application of the time-temperature superposition principle a suitable relation is needed to describe the time-temperature shift factor α. Therefore, the Arrhenius equation is widely used due to its simple form and often leads to suitable results. Where, the Arrhenius equation presents a linear relation for the temperature-dependent shift factor in logarithmic scale ln(α) with the absolute inverse temperature (1/ϑ). However, in cases with a large temperature range which eventually include more complex reaction processes, the functional relation between ln(α) and (1/ϑ) is nonlinear in the ‘Arrhenius plot’. In those cases, the monotone change of the nonlinear range in the ‘Arrhenius plot’ can be interpreted as a transient range between two approximately linear or constant regions. An extended application of the modified Arrhenius equation from Nakamura (1989) is presented in this study for this transient range. The introduced method was applied to describe the time-temperature equivalence in the relaxation analysis of restoring seal force of metal seals, which are used in lid-systems of transport and interim storage casks for radioactive materials. But, the method is widely valid and can be used for different objectives which are characterized by thermorheologically simple behavior with nonlinear sensitivity to inverse temperature.
The condition for plastic instability is a material characteristic and defines the onset of necking in tensile tests. In large deformation problems of ductile materials it is fundamental to determine the strain at which necking starts as well as the post-necking behaviour in the instability region properly. For verification purposes of material models, usually results of numerical analyses are compared to experimental outcomes. For tensile tests with ductile materials under dynamic loading, it is challenging to obtain comparable experimental and numerical results in terms of the onset of necking and the post-critical deformation behaviour. This paper focuses on the derivation of a theoretical criterion describing the plastic instability in rate-dependent materials based on the time variation of the strain gradient in a tensile specimen under isothermal conditions. We examine the influence of various constitutive equations on the theoretical stability condition predicted by different multiplicative as well as additive approaches. For multiplicative relations, the results indicate that the onset of necking is, in principle, independent of the strain rate, whereas for the considered additive relation, the dynamic necking strain must decrease with increasing strain rate. In conclusion, the theoretical stability condition is related to results from finite element simulations of dynamic tensile tests with various loading rates. It is shown that the simulated and the theoretical predicted onset of plastic instability agree reasonably.