The effects of constraint on crack tip fields and fracture toughness

✍ Scribed by Fashang Ma

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 747 KB
• Volume: 69
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00037383

✦ Synopsis

The detailed stresses, deformations and porosities in the vicinity of a blunting crack in different fracture specimens, Single Edge Notch (SEN), Three Point Bending (TPB) specimens, and Small Scale YieMing (SSY) model were studied by the larger deformation finite element method. The presence and subsequent growth of smaller scale voids were taken into account by using a modified Gurson's model to describe the constitutive behavior of the material. The dependences of the stresses, deformations and porosities on specimen configurations were associated with the crack tip constraint. The porosity in the tip region, along with the void coalescence criterion, were used to predict the macroscopic fracture toughness as a function of the constraint, and a comparison with experimental data was performed in this paper.