Hi,
Thank you eric and feadude.
i have a FE simulation in which i have stress components as output. i have measured the hardness of the same part experimentally, now i want to compare the hardness with the anyone of the stress components. actually i found the relation btw yield strength and hardness which you mentioned.
According to strain energy theory ! the yielding of material occurs when von mises stress exceeds uniaxial tensile yield stress. if we see the relation of von mises in terms of principal stresses, for a uniaxial tensile test sigma1 is sigma y (yield stress), sigma2 and sigma3 are zero's. In this case vons mises stress is equal to sigma y (yield stress).
so is it right if i consider the mises stress to be equivalent to yield strength. ! and say mises stress is 1/3 of HB....
Thank you,
bhaskar.