Spin tests to determine brittle fracture under plane strain |
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Authors: | Gale O. Sankey |
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Affiliation: | (1) Westinghouse R & D Center, Pittsburgh, Pa |
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Abstract: | The feasibility of using cyclic thermal stress or hydrostatic pressure to generate a fatigue crack in a large test-rotor blank is demonstrated. Test rotors, having test notches with fatigue-crack terminations, were spun to fracture to determine optimum test-notch design. It was found that, for the other test-notch dimensions held, it was necessary to extend the fatigue crack a minimum of 0.1 in. from the machined portion of the test notch to obtain a most effectively notched test rotor. In another series of tests, the influence of temperature on brittle-fracture strength of a Cr-Mo-V steel under plane strain was evaluated. It was found that, although there is a significant increase in fracture strength with increasing temperature, no knee in the curve is apparent in the vicinity of the conventionally measured transition temperatures ofNDT andT50. Also, design against brittle fracture is still required at temperatures aboveNDT andT50.Paper was presented at 1968 SESA Spring Meeting held in Albany, N. Y., on May 7–10. |
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