Fracture Behaviour of Thin Sheet Stainless Steel

Abstract:

The differences in fracture behavior between the compact tension C(T) and the middle tensile M(T) specimens make structure integrity assessment uncertain. Two different types of specimens C(T) and M(T) specimens made from stainless steel have been used for fracture toughness testing at the room temperature by the principles of the ASTM 1820-05 standard procedure. Stable crack initiation and crack propagation occurred for the C(T) specimens at lower values of crack driving force than for the M(T) specimens. Crack tip opening displacement-CTOD has been directly measured on the surface of specimens by using a stereo-optical grading method. The critical crack tip opening displacement at crack initiation CTODi has been measured as a plastic Stretch Zone Width (SZW) during a post test fractographic inspection. Comparison between the CTOD-R curves of both types of specimens shows some difference between the C(T) and the M(T) specimens, but a more significant difference appeared in the crack driving force, as consequence of different constraint (triaxiality) of the C(T) versus the M(T) specimens. Therefore, the result obtained by test on laboratory C(T) specimens cannot be directly used as fracture toughness material properties in a structure integrity assessment, except as a conservative lower bound estimate.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 525-526)
• Pages: 549-552
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.525-526.549
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Nenad Gubeljak, Darko Jagarinec, Jožef Predan, John Landes
• Keywords: Compact Tension Specimen, CTOD-R Curves, Middle Tension Specimen, Stainless Steel (SS)

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