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Abstract: The interface strength of low-dimensional nano-components such as films and islands
formed on substrates has been investigated in this project, and the focus is put on the mechanics of
crack initiation from the free interface edge and propagation along the interface. The series of
experiments elucidates the applicability of fracture mechanics concept on the structures. We proposed
experimental methods for evaluating the initiation strength of an interface crack in submicron films
and islands deposited on substrates. The initiation is governed by the singular stress field, and the
criterion is prescribed by the stress intensity parameter. Using special loading apparatus built in a
TEM, we developed a crack initiation method for nano-components and the role of plasticity on the
delamination is clarified. Subcritical crack growth along an interface between submicron films under
fatigue was also investigated by modified four-point bend method.
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Abstract: Microstructural observations are presented for different metals deformed from low to
high strain by both traditional and new metal working processes. It is shown that deformation
induced dislocation structures can be interpreted and analyzed within a common framework of grain
subdivision on a finer and finer scale down to the nanometer dimension, which can be reached at
ultrahigh strains. It is demonstrated that classical materials science and engineering principles apply
from the largest to the smallest structural scale but also that new and unexpected structures and
properties characterize metals with structures on the scale from about 10 nm to 1 μm.
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Abstract: There is an inherent relationship between the shape and the corresponding stress intensity
factor (SIF) distribution of a crack. A typical inverse problem of linear elastic fracture mechanics
about a crack, i.e. to predict the shape of a crack assuming that some information of SIF distribution is
known, is presented. A finite-element based numerical procedure is used to determine the shape,
correspondingly the SIF, of a mode-I planar crack based on a specified SIF distribution. The crack
front is modeled using cubic splines, which are determined by a number of control-points. The crack
front shape is achieved iteratively by moving control-points based on a gradientless algorithm.
Numerical examples for planar cracks in through-cracked and surface-cracked plates with finite
thickness and width are presented to show the validity and practicability of the proposed method. The
SIFs obtained by present method are compared with the known solutions for cracks with same
dimensions. The presented method is considered to be a promising alternative to the evaluation of
SIFs and the prediction of shape evolution for fatigue cracks.
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Abstract: The crack growth behavior and the fatigue life of welded members with initial crack in
bridges under traffic loading were investigated. Based on existed fatigue experiment results of
welded members with initial crack and the fatigue experiment result of welded bridge member
under constant stress cycle, the crack keeps semi-elliptical shape with variable ratio of a/c during
crack propagation. The calculated method of the stress intensity factor necessary for welded bridge
member crack propagation was discussed. The crack remained semi-elliptical shape with variable
ratio of a/c during crack propagation. The fatigue crack propagation law suitable for welded steel
bridge member fatigue crack propagation analysis was deduced based on the continuum damage
mechanics and fracture mechanics. The proposed fatigue crack growth model was then applied to
calculate the crack growth and the fatigue life of existed welded member with fatigue experimental
result. The calculated and measured fatigue life was generally in good agreement, at suitable initial
conditions of cracking, for welded member widely used in steel bridges.
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Abstract: Combining in-situ tensile tests with detailed observations of fracture surfaces of a
two-phase TiAl alloy, the fracture process and fracture mechanisms of TiAl alloys are investigated.
The results reveal that Cracks prefer to initiate and propagate along lamellar interfaces, which are
the weakest link in the near fully lamellar microstructure. The interlamellar strength calculated is
less than the translamellar strength. The tensile stress is the driving force for crack initiation and
propagation. In specimens with a slit notch, most cracks are initiated directly from the notch root
and extended along lamellar interfaces. The main crack can be stopped or deflected into a
delamination mode by a barrier grain with a lamellar interface orientation deviated from the
direction of crack propagation. In this case, new cracks are nucleated along lamellar interfaces of
grains with favorable orientation ahead the barrier grain. The main crack and a new crack are then
linked by the translamellar cleavage fracture of the barrier grain with increasing applied load. In
order to extend the main crack, further increases of the applied load are needed to move the high
stress region into the ligament until final fracture. The process of a new crack nucleation with a
bridging ligament formation decreases the crack propagation resistance rather than increases it.
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Abstract: In this paper, the behavior of a finite crack in an infinite plate of functionally graded
materials (FGM) with free boundary subjected to SH-waves is considered. To make the analysis
tractable, it is assumed that the material properties vary exponentially with the thickness direction
and the problem is transformed into a dual integrated equation with the method of integral
transform. The dynamic stress intensity factor is obtained using Schmidt method. The numerical
examples are presented to demonstrate this numerical technique for SH-waves propagating in FGM
plate. Finally the number of the waves, the gradient parameter of FGM and the angle of the
incidence upon the dynamic stress intensity factor are also given.
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Abstract: A moving crack in a laminated structure with free boundary subjected to anti-plane shear
loading is investigated in this paper. Using the bonding conditions of the interface between different
media, all the quantities in our question have been represented with a single unknown function, and
the problem is transformed into a dual integrated equation with the method of Fourier transform.
The equation is solved using Schmidt method. Finally the numerical results show the relationships
among the dynamic stress intensity factor and crack velocity, the height of different laminated
material, shear moduli of different laminated material.
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Abstract: Surface and depth morphology evodslutions of short crack propagation of 1Cr18Ni9Ti
weld metal are investigated. In accordance with the previous effective short fatigue crack (ESFC)
criterion, attention is paid on the formation zone of the dominant ESFC (DESFC), which resulted
finally in the specimen failure, in micro-structural short crack (MSC) regime and then, the tip zone(s)
ahead of the DESFC in physical short crack (PSC) regime. Results show that in MSC regime the
surface ESFCs were imitated from the distributed randomly delta ferrite bounds separated from
austenite matrix. The initiated ESFCs on surface propagated perpendicularly to loading axle. But in
depth direction, the initiated ESFCs grew first similarly to the surface behaviour but lately, tended to
be perpendicularly to the formation direction of the material columnar grain structure. When sizes of
some longer ESFCs reached around the material maximum barrier size, coalescence occurred to form
a true DESFC. In PSC regime the surface DESFC grew almost perpendicularly to loading axle. But in
depth direction, it grew first perpendicularly to the formation direction of the columnar grain structure
and then, tended to having 45 degree angle to the loading axle. Obviously, the evolutions were
strongly affected by interactions between the load and the microstructures, especially, the columnar
grain structure.
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Abstract: In order to understand the grain size and porosity dependent mechanical behavior of porous,
multi-phase nanocrystalline ceramics, each phase is treated as a mixture of grain interior and grain
boundary, and pores are taken as a single phase. In conjunction with the secant-modulus approach and
iso-strain assumption, Budiansky’s self-consistent method is extended to build a constitutive model
for nanocrystalline ceramics with small plastic deformation. Based on the developed model, the
predicted yield strength (σ0.2) values of porous, multi-phase nanocrystalline ceramics with different
grain size and porosity are compared with experimental data in the literature, the comparison shows
that the predictions are in good agreement with the published data. This suggests that the developed
model is capable of describing the grain size and porosity dependent mechanical behaviors of
nanocrystalline ceramics with small plastic deformation.
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