FRACTURE ANALYSES OF THIN-DUCTILE MATERIALS USING CRITICAL CTOA AND TWO-PARAMETER FRACTURE CRITERION

FRACTURE ANALYSES OF THIN-DUCTILE MATERIALS USING CRITICAL CTOA AND TWO-PARAMETER FRACTURE CRITERION

James NewmanGrand Ballroom A

The critical crack-tip-opening angle or displacement (CTOA/CTOD) fracture criterion is one of the oldest fracture criteria applied to metallic materials. Improved computer-aided photographic methods have been developed to measure CTOA during the fracture process; and elastic-plastic, finite-element analyses (ZIP2D) with a constant CTOA and a plane-strain core have been used to simulate fracture of laboratory specimens. The fracture criterion has been able to link the fracture of laboratory specimens to structural applications. This paper analyzes fracture of cracked thin-sheet 2219 aluminum alloy over an extremely wide range in width, crack-length-to-width ratio, and applied loading. The results from the critical CTOA fracture analyses on the thin-sheet material showed that the stress-intensity factor at failure (KIe) was linearly related to the net-section stress (Sn), as predicted by the Two-Parameter Fracture Criterion (TPFC).
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Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, United States of America
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Ductile Fracture Under Complex Loading
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