کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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770419 | 1463067 | 2016 | 20 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• This study reports an experimental work on cleavage fracture for surface-cracked plates.
• Direct assessments based on the Weibull stress remains infeasible for surface cracks.
• The paper modifies the Weibull stress assessment for surface-cracked specimens.
• This paper defines a critical crack-front segment based on the energy release rate.
• This study verifies the proposed approach for three different steel materials.
This paper presents a combined experimental and numerical investigation to assess the probability of cleavage fracture for surface-cracked plates, using the Weibull stress framework. The proposed procedure defines a critical crack-front segment as the fracture initiation zone using the computed energy release rate. The Weibull-stress based local approach introduces a modified constraint correction function, which allows bidirectional scaling of the fracture toughness in surface-cracked specimens and the idealized 1T small-scale yielding condition. The proposed procedure predicts closely the probability of fracture for surface-cracked specimens made of three different types of steel materials.
Journal: Engineering Fracture Mechanics - Volume 161, August 2016, Pages 1–20