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Cracking Process in Delayed Fracture of High-Strength Steel after Long Atmospheric Exposure

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ISIJ INTERNATIONAL
卷 62, 期 4, 页码 776-787

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IRON STEEL INST JAPAN KEIDANREN KAIKAN
DOI: 10.2355/isijinternational.ISIJINT-2021-238

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hydrogen embrittlement; delayed fracture; high-strength steel; atmospheric exposure; fractography; cracking

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This paper presents the first microscopic observation of the entire cracking process in delayed fracture of high-strength steel bolt after long-term atmospheric exposure. The initiation of the propagating crack is observed beneath the screw groove, resulting from the merging of multiple cracks. The fracture morphology changes from intergranular to quasi-cleavage and fine dimples, associated with increasing stress intensity.
This paper is the first microscopic observation of the entire cracking process in delayed fracture of high-strength steel bolt after long-term atmospheric exposure. A sufficiently fresh fracture surface exhibits the initiation of the propagating crack in a thin zone beneath the screw groove, resulting from the merging of multiple cracks nucleated therein. The fracture morphology is initially intergranular, exhibiting the three-dimensional shape of prior austenite grains, but the stress and strain states at the nucleation sites are not uniquely specified. The fracture morphology alters as the crack extends from intergranular to quasi-cleavage and fine dimples, associated with increasing stress intensity under a constant-displacement condition. The change from inter- to trans-granular fracture is continuous, implying affinity among different morphologies associated with the increased density and the distribution of potential crack nucleation sites in the crack front. The crack propagation in the quasi-cleavage and fine dimple regions is step-wise of about 50 mu m per step. Recent studies about the function of hydrogen in embrittlement are referred to in respect of the accumulation of strain-induced damage. The enhanced generation of strain-induced vacancies is the presumable function of hydrogen compatible with the present findings.

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