An Application of Fracture Concepts to the Prediction of Critical Length of Fatigue Cracks. Part III. A Unified Theory for Fracture of Metal and Alloys.
Abstract
A thermodynamic energy approach is used to develop a unified theory of fracture relative to mechanical response of metals and alloys as a function of the atomic, and metallurgical structures and the phenomenological aggregate levels collectively. Fracture (stable cracking) and fracture dynamics (unstable cracking) are correlated in terms of the theory based upon the process of energy transformation and in terms of mechanical and thermal energy of the First Law of Thermodynamics. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0725752
Entities
People
- Sidney O. Davis.
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory