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MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14206224
Keywords
fracture toughness; ductile-to-brittle transition; local approach to fracture; ferritic steel
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- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [0121U107569]
- Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
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The study demonstrates that consideration of the temperature and strain dependence of crack nucleus bulk density leads to the invariance of parameters of the Weibull distribution with temperature. The proposed microscopic model predicts the dependence of CN bulk density on plastic deformation value and temperature.
An unjustified simplification of the local quantitative criterion regarding cleavage nucleation is a key problem in the utilisation of the Local Approach to Fracture (LA), particularly to predict the fracture toughness within the ductile-to-brittle transition (DBT) region. The theoretical concept of the effect of both temperature and the plastic strain value on the crack nuclei (CN) generation rate in iron and ferritic steels is presented. It is shown how the plastic strain and temperature affect CN formation rate and, as a consequence, govern the shape of the temperature dependence of fracture toughness K-Jc and its scatter limits. Within the framework of the microscopic model proposed, dependences of the CN bulk density on the plastic deformation value and temperature are predicted. Convenient approximation dependences for incorporating this effect into the LA are suggested. The experimental data of reactor pressure vessel steel and cast manganese steel demonstrate that the use of these dependences enables one to predict, with sufficient accuracy, the effect of temperature on the value of fracture toughness and its scatter limits over the DBT region. It is shown that accounting for both the temperature and strain dependence of CN bulk density gives rise to the invariance of parameters of the Weibull distribution to temperature.
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