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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution - Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics |
| Editors | Ryan B. Berke, Garrett J. Pataky, Alison M. Beese, Jay Carroll, Shuman Xia |
| Publisher | Springer New York LLC |
| Pages | 25-33 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319628301 |
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| State | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2017 - Indianapolis, United States Duration: Jun 12 2017 → Jun 15 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series |
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| Volume | 7 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2191-5644 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2191-5652 |
Conference
| Conference | Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Indianapolis |
| Period | 06/12/17 → 06/15/17 |
Funding
Acknowledgements Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. This project was completed as part of the Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Institute, co-hosted by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico. The authors would like to thank Fracture Analysis Consultants (Ithaca, NY) for complimentary use of the Franc3D software.
Keywords
- Crack growth
- Self-loading
- Steady-state
- Stress intensity factor