Ductile Fracture and Failure Criteria of Structural Steels.

Abstract

Progress is reviewed for a program which examines multiaxial failure criteria and the associated mechanisms of ductile fracture in structural steels using HY100 as a model system. Failure limit diagram data are presented for the dependence of failure initiation of HY100 over a range of multiaxial tensile stresses and microstructural conditions including material heat treated to simulate heat-affected zone material in a weldment. An analysis of experimental observations suggests two modes of ductile fracture: failure caused by a global accumulation of damage which is very sensitive to stress triaxiality and failure caused by localized void linking in the form of void-stress instabilities which is only moderately sensitive to stress state. A computational model is presented to describe the void-sheet mode of failure while an experimental model has been devised to explore void interaction effects during global damage accumulation. p3

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA313313

Entities

People

  • Donald A. Koss

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alloys
  • Base Metal
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Science
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Far Field
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanics
  • Observation
  • Steel
  • Stresses
  • Tensile Stress
  • Triaxial Stresses
  • Weldments

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).