Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 136-146Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.01.003
Keywords
Dynamic crack propagation; Intergranular and transgranular cracking; Roughness; Parallel cohesive elements; Graph theory
Funding
- Materials Innovation Institute (M2i) [M23.2.09347]
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A 2D plane-strain dynamically propagating crack under tensile loading is simulated with cohesive elements. Information of the main crack is extracted from a diffuse crack network with the use of graph properties. Micro-transgranular fracture properties are calibrated by comparing the crack path transgranular fracture percentage of numerical simulations with experimental data. Results show that although weaker grain boundaries cause more deflections in the crack path and consequently increase the crack length and roughness, the overall toughness is decreased due to reduction of transgranular fracture. The main crack failure mode transition at grain boundaries is compared to static (Hutchinson and Suo, 1992) and dynamic (Xu et al., 2003) classical analytical predictions. It is observed that in many cases, before the arrival of a transgranular fracture at a grain boundary, a micro-daughter crack starts to propagate on the interface. The crack tip extension through this daughter crack/mother crack mechanism complicates the interpretation of the main crack speed in dynamic regime. Yet, the dynamic analysis brings a more accurate prediction of the crack path in microstructures compared to the static one when the data are segregated according to this mechanism. (c) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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