U形切口的有限断裂准则

有限断裂力学准则综合了应力和能量参数,假设裂纹或切口端部有限裂纹长度的增长．特别地,该有限裂纹的长度不是材料的基本常数,而是与构件的结构有关．基于U形切口两种形式：点方式和线方式有限断裂准则,对文献中的铝合金U形切口三点弯曲断裂实验进行了分析验证．一方面基于材料的断裂韧度和抗拉强度,预测切口件断裂载荷;另一方面根据几组不同的切口根部半径及其对应的临界切口应力强度因子,同时估算材料的断裂参数：断裂韧度和抗拉强度．将点方式和线方式两种不同形式有限断裂准则的预测结果,与平均周向应力准则、最大周向应力准则以及文献中相关结果进行了比较得出：无论是预测断裂载荷还是估算材料断裂参数,线方式有限断裂准则,与文献中相关结果比较吻合,尤其是估算的断裂韧度精度较高．     

聚氨酯泡沫塑料的强度与断裂韧性

针对3种密度的聚氨酯泡沫塑料进行了拉伸实验。通过无缺口试件确定了3种密度泡沫塑料的拉伸断裂强度,而利用有缺口试件确定了这些材料的拉伸断裂韧性。为了研究高密度泡沫塑料的拉伸断裂机制,还对破坏后试件进行了扫描电镜分析。此外,还简要讨论了泡沫塑料拉伸断裂力学性能的理论预测问题。     

试样疲劳性能尺度效应的概率控制体积方法

试样尺度、缺口和加载方式通常对材料的疲劳性能具有重要影响. 因此,发展关联试样尺度、缺口和加载方式对疲劳强度影响的方法对于从材料疲劳性能到结构件疲劳性能的预测具有重要意义.首先,采用旋转弯曲加载和轴向加载方式对不同几何形状EA4T车轴钢试样进行了疲劳实验.实验结果表明, 由于试样尺度的增加,轴向加载下狗骨形试样的疲劳强度明显低于沙漏形试样; 相同寿命下,缺口显著降低试样的疲劳强度. 疲劳断口扫描电镜观测结果表明,疲劳裂纹均起源于试样表面.沙漏形试样和狗骨形试样疲劳断口大多只有一个裂纹源,而缺口试样疲劳断口均具有多裂纹源特征. 然后,采用概率控制体积方法研究了试样尺度、缺口和加载方式对疲劳强度的影响,并与临界距离和应变能密度方法进行了比较. 结果表明,概率控制体积方法能够更好地关联试样尺度、缺口和加载方式对EA4T车轴钢疲劳强度的影响.最后, 提出一种基于控制体积的结构件疲劳强度预测方法,并用于具有不连续高应力区域车轴钢试样的疲劳强度预测,预测结果与实验结果 吻合.      

An extended strain energy density failure criterion by differentiating volumetric and distortional deformation

We extend Sih’s strain energy density criterion (Sih, 1974) for crack kinks and material failure by weighting differently the volumetric and distortional parts in the extended strain energy density factor. The work is inspired by the factor that failure by microscopic shearing governed by distortion and microscopic separation controlled by hydrostatic tension represent distinct deformation processes, and should be treated differently as we count their influences to material failure. With the weight parameter introduced to the extended strain energy density factor criterion, we explain satisfactorily several critical experiments which reported crack kink in samples subjected to mixed-mode loading. The extended strain energy density idea is also used to derive a generalized pressure-dependent yielding criterion, which supplies a theoretical basis for those novel strength criteria for materials like bulk metallic glasses. Corresponding methods to determine the two material parameters, the critical strain energy density factor and the weight parameter quantifying the relative contribution by distortion over volumetric deformation, are discussed.     

Analysis of crack growth and crack-tip plasticity in ductile materials using cohesive zone models

Crack initiation and crack growth resistance in elastic plastic materials, dominated by crack-tip plasticity are analyzed with the crack modeled as a cohesive zone. Two different types (exponential and bilinear) of cohesive zone models (CZMs) have been used to represent the mechanical behavior of the cohesive zones. In this work, it is suggested that different forms of CZMs (e.g., exponential, bilinear) are the manifestations of different micromechanisms-based inelastic processes that participate in dissipating energy during the fracture process and each form is specific to each material system. It is postulated that the total energy release rate comprises the plastic dissipation rate in the bounding material and the separation energy rate within the fracture process zone, the latter is determined by CZMs. The total energy release rate then becomes a function of the material properties (e.g., yield strength, strain hardening exponent) and cohesive properties of the fracture process zone (e.g., cohesive strength and cohesive energy), and the form of cohesive zone model (CZM) that determines the rate of energy dissipation in the forward and wake regions of the crack. The effects of material parameters, cohesive zone parameters as well as the form/shape of CZMs in predicting the crack growth resistance and the size of plastic zone (SPZ) surrounding the crack tip are systematically examined. It is found that in addition to the cohesive strength and cohesive energy, the form (shape) of the traction–separation law of CZM plays a very critical role in determining the crack growth resistance (R-curve) of a given material. It is further observed that the shape of the CZM corresponds to inelastic processes active in the forward and wake regions of the crack, and has a profound influence on the R-curve and SPZ.     

Tensile failure of two-dimensional quasi-brittle foams

Stress redistribution caused by damage onset and the subsequent local softening plays an important role in determining the ultimate tensile strength of a cellular structure. The formation of damage process zones with struts dissipating a finite amount of fracture energy will require the macroscopic stress to be increased in order to continue structural damage. The goal of this paper is to investigate the influence of the fracture energy of the solid on the tensile fracture strength and the strain to fracture in quasi-brittle two-dimensional foams using a microstructural model. We analyze the mesoscopic damage and failure mechanisms in uniaxial tension. Relative density, strut cross-sectional profile, solid’s fracture strain, and fracture energy are varied systematically. The effect of the specific fracture energy on the peak behavior has been shown to be captured by the ratio of the fracture energy to the stored elastic energy. We have also explored the net section strength variation in the presence of a central crack at two different fracture energies. Comparison is made between two structurally identical quasi-brittle and ductile strain hardening foams to identify the differences in the damage mechanisms.     

中子辐照金属材料的脆化模型研究

金属材料的辐照脆化问题一直以来都是核能安全领域亟待解决的关键问题之一.为了更准确地预测金属材料的辐照脆化行为,基于Johnson-Cook本构模型,将未辐照金属材料的断裂真应力取作辐照材料的断裂真应力,建立了通过辐照退火态金属材料屈服强度就能够预测其整个真应力$\!$-$\!$-$\!$应变曲线,以及断裂真应变的辐照脆化模型.实验研究了不同中子剂量辐照退火态高纯铝的准静态拉伸真应力$\!$-$\!$-$\!$应变曲线、断裂真应力和断裂真应变随辐照剂量的变化规律.结果表明,辐照剂量越高,高纯铝的屈服强度越高,断裂真应变越低,但断裂真应力几乎不变.通过TEM显微分析获得了高纯铝内部辐照缺陷的尺寸和数密度随辐照剂量的变化规律,结果表明,辐照剂量越高,孔洞的尺寸和数密度越高,但位错环尺寸和数密度始终很小,难以准确统计.由辐照高纯铝实验数据拟合得到了辐照脆化模型所需参数,并检验了该模型的预测效果.结果表明,无论是通过实验还是显微分析得到辐照高纯铝的屈服强度,模型的预测结果均能够与实验结果较好地吻合,且模型对退火态高纯铝临界中子剂量的预测值也与文献结果一致.      

Size effects in material strength due to crack growth and material non-linearity

Failure by strength and fracture collapse tend to compete with one another when the specimen sizes are varied. Material testing dealing with the determination of tensile strength and hardening is usually carried out with small specimens while the evaluation of fracture mechanics parameters such as critical stress-intensity factor or strain energy density factor requires specimens that are larger in size. The formation of cracks in small specimens does not appreciably affect failure by strength collapse. On the other hand, the fracture process is not disturbed by the development of plastic hinges in the unbroken ligament of the larger specimens.     

Fracture of piezoelectric materials: energy density criterion

In this paper, the concept of energy density factor S for piezoelectric materials is presented. In addition to the mechanical energy the electrical energy is included as well. The direction of crack initiation is assumed to occur when S_min reaches a critical value S_cr that can be used as an intrinsic materials parameter and is independent of the crack geometry and loading. The result agrees with empirical evidence qualitatively and explains rationally the effect of applied electric field on fracture strength: positive electric fields decrease the apparent fracture toughness of piezoelectric materials while negative electric fields increase it.     

Crack growth instability studied by the strain energy density theory

The strain energy density theory has successfully been used to address the problem of material damage and structural failure in problems of engineering interest. The theory makes use of the strain energy density function, dW/dV, and focuses attention in its stationary values. The directions of crack growth and yielding are determined from the minimum and maximum values of dW/dV, respectively, along the circumference of a circle centered at the point of failure initiation. Failure by crack growth or yielding takes place when these values of dW/dV become equal to their critical values which are material constants. In the present work the basic principles of the strain energy density theory were reviewed. Furthermore, this theory was used to study three problems of structural failure, namely the problem of slow stable growth of an inclined crack in a plate subjected to uniaxial tension, the problem of fracture instability of a plate with a central crack and two notches, and the problem of unstable crack growth in a circular disc subjected to two equal and opposite forces. The results of stress analysis were combined with the strain energy density theory to obtain the whole history of crack growth from initiation to instability. A length parameter was introduced to define the fracture instability of a mechanical system. Fracture trajectories were obtained for fast unstable crack propagation.     

Crack-extension resistance of polycarbonate material

Crack-extension resistance for the polycarbonate material is examined by application of the strain energy density criterion and the incremental theory of plasticity. The energy state ahead of a slow moving crack in a three-point bend specimen is obtained for each load increment and used to determine the crack growth characteristics. The analytical results are displayed by plotting the strain energy density factor S as a function of crack length and compared with available experimental data on the polycarbonate material. Standard deviations and mean errors are computed for the experimentally measured and analytically determined values of S and are shown to be much lower than those based on the J-integral parameter. Modeling of the polycarbonate material by the theory of plasticity still remains much to be desired. Crack growth calculations are performed for a strain hardening parameter α = 0.85 that controls the proportion of isotropic and kinematic hardening. Nevertheless, the criterion dS/da = const. is shown to collate well with the experimental crack growth data.     

Scale-dependent constitutive relations and the role of scale on nominal properties

Size effects in strength and fracture energy of heterogeneous materials is considered within a context of scale-dependent constitutive relations. Using tools of wavelet analysis, and considering the failure state of a one-dimensional solid, constitutive relations which include scale as a parameter are derived from a ‘background’ gradient formulation. In the resulting theory, scale is not a fixed quantity independent of deformation, but rather directly dependent on the global deformation field. It is shown that strength or peak nominal stress (maximum point at the engineering stress–strain diagram) decreases with specimen size while toughness or total work to fracture per nominal area (area under the curve in the engineering stress–strain diagram integrated along the length of the considered one-dimensional specimen) increases. This behavior is in agreement with relevant experimental findings on heterogeneous materials where the overall mechanical response is determined by variations in local material properties. The scale-dependent constitutive relations are calibrated from experimental data on concrete specimens.     

Void growth to coalescence in a non-local material

The size-effect in metals containing distributed spherical voids is analyzed numerically using a finite strain generalization of a length scale dependent plasticity theory. Results are obtained for stress-triaxialities relevant in front of a crack tip in an elastic-plastic metal. The influence of different material length parameters in a multi-parameter theory is studied, and it is shown that the important length parameter is the same as under purely hydrostatic loading. It is quantified how micron scale voids grow less rapidly than larger voids, and the implications of this in the overall strength of the material is emphasized. The size effect on the onset of coalescence is studied, and results for the void volume fraction and the strain at the onset of coalescence are presented. It is concluded that for cracked specimens not only the void volume fraction, but also the typical void size is of importance to the fracture strength of ductile materials.     

An indentation technique for estimating the energy density as fracture toughness with Berkovich indenter for ductile bulk materials

A technique is proposed to estimate the energy density as fracture toughness for ductile bulk materials with an indentation system equipped with a Berkovich indenter based on the theory of plastic deformation energy transforming into the indentation energy of fracture. With progressive increase of penetration loads, the material damage is exhibited on the effective elastic modulus. A quadratic polynomial relationship between the plastic penetration depth and penetration load, and an approximate linear relationship between logarithmic plastic penetration depth and logarithmic effective elastic modulus are exhibited by indentation investigation with Berkovich indenter. The parameter of damage variable is proposed to determine the critical effective elastic modulus at the fracture point. And the strain energy density factor is calculated according to the equations of penetration load, plastic penetration depth and effective elastic modulus. The fracture toughness of aluminum alloy and stainless steel are evaluated by both indentation tests and K_IC fracture toughness tests. The predicted S_cr values of indentation tests are in good agreement with experimental results of CT tests.     

Effects of fillers on fracture performance of thermoplastics: Strain energy density criterion

This paper presents the experimental results on the fracture performance of filled thermoplastics. The emphasis is put on verification of the validity of different fracture criteria. The effects of two- and three-dimensional fillers on the fracture toughness of a representative thermoplastic, polypropylene, are analyzed. It has been found that classical fracture mechanics do not properly describe the fracture behavior of these composites. The strain energy density theory provides a more appropriate criterion for predicting fracture. On the macroscopic scale, the addition of fillers leads to a reduction in the critical strain energy density of thermoplastics. However, on the microscopic level fillers enhance a more wide spread crack-growth and failure by fracture becomes more stable. The material is therefore less prone to shatter in service. This effect of fillers is interpreted in terms of damage development, induced by the debonding at the matrix/fillers interface. A better interfacial adhesion reduces the microscopic damage and the critical increment of crack growth prior to instability. The results explain the negative effect of coupling agent on the impact resistance observed in practice.     

Crack in a 2D beam lattice: Analytical solutions for two bending modes

We consider an infinite square-cell lattice of elastic beams with a semi-infinite crack. Symmetric and antisymmetric bending modes of fracture under remote loads are examined. The related long-wave asymptotes corresponding to a continuous anisotropic bending plate are also considered. In the latter model, the symmetric mode is characterized by the square-root type singularity, whereas the antisymmetric mode results in a hyper-singular field. A solution for the continuous plate with a finite crack is also presented. These closed-form continuous solutions describe the fields in the whole plane. The main goal is to establish analytical connections between the ‘macrolevel’ state, defined by the continuous asymptote of the lattice solution, and the maximal bending moment in the crack-front beam, that is, to determine the resistance of the lattice with an initial crack to the crack advance. The solutions are obtained in the same way as for mass-spring lattices. Considering the static problems we use the discrete Fourier transform and the Wiener-Hopf technique. Monotonically distributed bending moments ahead of the crack are determined for the symmetric mode, and a self-equilibrated transverse force distribution is found for the antisymmetric mode. It is shown that in the latter case only the crack-front beam resists to the fracture development, whereas the forces in the other beams facilitate the fracture. In this way, the macrolevel fracture energy is determined in terms of the material strength. The macrolevel energy release is found to be much greater than the critical strain energy of the beam, especially in the hyper-singular mode. In both problems, it is found that among the beams surrounding the crack the crack-front beam is maximally stressed, and hence its strength defines the strength of the structure.     

R-curve and size effect in quasibrittle fractures: Case of notched structures

Within the framework of Bažant’s theory, the size effect on nominal strength of notched structures deduced from a size-dependent R-curve is proposed. It is shown that the expected size effect is more complicated than the one proposed in Bažant’s Size Effect Law (SEL) and especially in the crossover regime. As a function of the fracture parameters describing the R-curve, two kinds of size effect on the resistance at peak load are possible and lead to three different scalings on the nominal strength. We argue that these expected size effects are mainly driven by the value of the scaling exponent characterizing the size effect on the critical crack length increment and on the critical resistance assumed in the R-curve behavior. The three resulting size effects on the nominal strength are compared to Bažant’s SEL. It appears that, if Bažant’s SEL always underestimates nominal strength and consequently provides a safety design of structures, an optimal design should take into account the size effect on the R-curve and their consequences on the size effect on the nominal strength especially for large structures sizes.     

Modification of the fracture criterion for V-shaped notches (plane problem). Relationship between toughness and strength and structural parameters

A fracture criterion of the type of the Neuber-Novozhilov criterion is proposed to describe the fracture in the vicinity of the tip of a V-shaped notch under tensile and shear loading. In the proposed criterion, the limits of averaging of the stresses along the notch axis depend on the presence, location, and size of the initial defects in the material. The crystal lattice parameter of the initial material is chosen for the characteristic linear size. For a V-shaped notch subjected to tension and shear, simple equations are obtained that relate the stress intensity factors for the modified singularity coefficients, the singularity coefficients themselves, and the theoretical tensile and shear strengths of a single crystal of the material taking into account the damage to the material in the vicinity of the notch tip. The equations obtained allow a passage to the limit from a notch to a crack. It is shown that the classical critical stress intensity factor used in the strength analysis of cracked solids is not a material constant.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 106–115, January–February, 2005.     

Relationship between spall characteristics and the dimension of fractal fracture structures

The effect of the fractality of a fracture surface and spall contour on the characteristics [fracture time (strength) and spall strength] of the loaded material is studied. It is shown that an increase in the fractal dimensions of the spall contour leads to an increase in the material strength parameter in the tensile wave and spall strength, whereas an increase in the fractal dimension of the fracture surface leads to a decrease in the spall strength. As an example, the spall strength is calculated taking into account the fractality of the fracture surface for Sp. 28 steel.     

A pseudo-elastic material damage model, part II: Application to the scaling of specimen size, material behavior and loading rate

A failure criterion is presented which relates the strain energy density of the material to both yielding and fracture. Cumulative material damage throughout a structural component may be monitored and the relative influence of yielding and stable crack growth assessed. The criterion is demonstrated, using finite element analysis, for center cracked panel specimens differing by material toughness values. From crack growth increment predictions using the uniaxial stress-strain behavior of the material, the criterion predicts the critical value of the strain energy density factor S_c governing crack instability.