Designing brittle fracture specimens to investigate environmentally assisted crack growth

Sunday Aduloju, Wenjia Gu, Timothy Truster, John Emery, Dave Reedy, Scott J. Grutzik

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Abstract

Subcritical crack growth can occur in a glass when the stress intensity factor is less than the fracture toughness if water molecules are present. A novel bi-material beam specimen is proposed to investigate environmentally assisted crack growth (EACG). Two materials with different coefficients of thermal expansion are diffusion bonded at high temperature and cooled to the room temperature which introduces residual stress in the beam. A Finite element (FE) model is developed and initially validated with an analytical model. Steady-state crack (SSC) depth at which mode II stress intensity factor (KII) is zero and the corresponding mode I stress intensity factor (KI) value are obtained for different material pairs and thickness ratios of the top and bottom materials using the FE model. Crack propagation path is also predicted. We finally modify the geometry of the specimen to generate non-constant KI values as the crack propagates.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution - Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
EditorsRyan B. Berke, Garrett J. Pataky, Alison M. Beese, Jay Carroll, Shuman Xia
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages25-33
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319628301
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventAnnual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2017 - Indianapolis, United States
Duration: Jun 12 2017Jun 15 2017

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
Volume7
ISSN (Print)2191-5644
ISSN (Electronic)2191-5652

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIndianapolis
Period06/12/1706/15/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

Keywords

  • Crack growth
  • Self-loading
  • Steady-state
  • Stress intensity factor

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