Fracture Behavior of X65 Q&T Seamless Pipeline Steel Under Different Strain Rates and Stress States

Author(s):  
Pratiwi Fudlailah ◽  
Marcelo Paredes

Abstract Dynamic crack propagation in pressurized pipelines is usually investigated by means of lab-scale specimens due to its economic feasibility and material saving. More recently, new generation of pipeline steels have incredibly shown a combined fracture toughness and plastic strength capabilities with even more heavier wall thickness, for which current design standards and practice codes underpredict largely the actual material response under different strain rates. The Drop-Weight Tear Test (DWTT) is commonly used to characterize dynamic fracture behavior of pipeline steel and its numerical implementation with appropriate constitutive equations has become essential in the fundamental understanding of the interaction between fracture process and local stress-strain fields. In the present study, a X65 Q&T seamless pipeline steel is fully characterized under different strain rate levels and stress states for dynamic fracture initiation. A rate dependent phenomenological fracture criterion is proposed in the form of Modified Mohr-Coulomb (MMC) fracture model coupling with a multiplicative decomposition of the hardening law to describe strain rate effect on post-necking behavior. The model implementation is then validated through a drop-weight tearing analysis on standard and non-standard specimen configurations including different wall thickness.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Peng ◽  
Xuanzhen Chen ◽  
Shan Peng ◽  
Chao Chen ◽  
Jiahao Li ◽  
...  

In order to study the dynamic and fracture behavior of 6005 aluminum alloy at different strain rates and stress states, various tests (tensile tests at different strain rates and tensile shearing tests at five stress states) are conducted by Mechanical Testing and Simulation (MTS) and split-Hopkinson tension bar (SHTB). Numerical simulations based on the finite element method (FEM) are performed with ABAQUS/Standard to obtain the actual stress triaxialities and equivalent plastic strain to fracture. The results of tensile tests for 6005 Al show obvious rate dependence on strain rates. The results obtained from simulations indicate the feature of nonmonotonicity between the strain to fracture and stress triaxiality. The equivalent plastic strain reduces to a minimum value and then increases in the stress triaxiality range from 0.04 to 0.30. A simplified Johnson-Cook (JC) constitutive model is proposed to depict the relationship between the flow stress and strain rate. What is more, the strain-rate factor is modified using a quadratic polynomial regression model, in which it is considered to vary with the strain and strain rates. A fracture criterion is also proposed in a low stress triaxiality range from 0.04 to 0.369. Error analysis for the modified JC model indicates that the model exhibits higher accuracy than the original one in predicting the flow stress at different strain rates. The fractography analysis indicates that the material has a typical ductile fracture mechanism including the shear fracture under pure shear and the dimple fracture under uniaxial tensile.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Mehrmashhadi ◽  
Longzhen Wang ◽  
Florin Bobaru

Experimental investigations of dynamic crack propagation in PMMA induced by impact show single cracks running at around 300-400 m/s. Existing numerical models for simulating dynamic fracture in PMMA consistently produce crack propagation speeds significantly higher than those measured experimentally. Here we uncover the reason for this puzzle by showing that localized softening in the fracture process zone (caused by heating due to high strain rates in front of the crack tip), leads to crack propagation speeds that match the observed ones. We introduce a new constitutive model in our peridynamic formulation for PMMA to account for material softening in the crack tip region. With the new model, the computed crack speed and crack length evolution match very closely those found experimentally.


Author(s):  
Z. Huang ◽  
P. Kumar ◽  
I. Dutta ◽  
J. H. L. Pang ◽  
R. Sidhu ◽  
...  

During service, micro-cracks form inside solder joints, making a microelectronic package prone to failure particularly during a drop. Hence, the understanding of the fracture behavior of solder joints under drop conditions, synonymously at high strain rates and in mixed mode, is critically important. This study reports: (i) the effects of processing conditions (reflow parameters and aging) on the microstructure and fracture behavior of Sn-3.8%Ag-0.7%Cu (SAC387) solder joints attached to Cu substrates, and (ii) the effects of the loading conditions (strain rate and loading angle) on the fracture toughness of these joints, especially at high strain rates. A methodology for calculating critical energy release rate, GC, was employed to quantify the fracture toughness of the joints. Two parameters, (i) effective thickness of the interfacial intermetallic compounds (IMC) layer, which is proportional to the product of the thickness and the roughness of the IMC layer, and (ii) yield strength of the solder, which depends on the solder microstructure and the loading rate, were identified as the dominant quantities affecting the fracture behavior of the solder joints. The fracture toughness of the solder joint decreased with an increase in the effective thickness of the IMC layer and the yield strength of the solder. A 2-dimensional fracture mechanism map with the effective thickness of the IMC layer and the yield strength of the solder as two axes and the fracture toughness as well as the fraction of different fracture paths as contour-lines was prepared. Trends in the fracture toughness of the solder joints and their correlation with the fracture modes are explained using the fracture mechanism map.


2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Al-Quraishi ◽  
Michelle S. Hoo Fatt

Abstract This paper illustrates how the fracture energy of a tensile strip made of unfilled and 25 phr carbon black-filled natural rubber varies with far-field strain rate in the range 0.01–71 s−1. Quasistatic and dynamic fracture tests were performed at room temperature with an electromechanical INSTRON machine, a servo-hydraulic MTS machine, and Charpy tensile apparatus, respectively. It was found that the fracture energy of the unfilled natural rubber did not vary significantly over the range of sample strain rate, but there was significant variation in the fracture energy of the 25 phr carbon black-filled natural rubber from 0.01 to 71 s−1 sample strain rate. The fracture energy of the 25 phr carbon black-filled natural rubber at a sample strain rate of 0.1 s−1 was about three times greater than it was at the 10 s−1 sample strain rate. While the carbon black fillers increased the fracture energy of natural rubber by about 200% at quasistatic sample strain rates (0.01–0.1 s−1) and at 71 s−1, the carbon black fillers did nothing to improve the fracture energy of natural rubber at sample strain rates between 5 and 29 s−1. In this strain rate range, the fracture energy of 25 phr carbon black-filled natural rubber was almost the same as that in the unfilled natural rubber. The variation in the fracture energy with far-field strain rate was due to changes in the material behavior of natural rubber at high strain rates. Finite element analysis using a high-strain-rate constitutive equation for the 25 phr carbon black rubber specimen was used to calculate the fracture energy of the specimen at a sample strain rate of 55 s−1, and good agreement was found between the test and finite element results.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Martin ◽  
L. Meyer ◽  
L. Kecskes ◽  
N.N. Thadhani

The uniaxial and biaxial compressive responses of Zr57Nb5Al10Cu15.4Ni12.6–W composite were investigated over a range of strain rates (∼10−3 to 103 s−1) using an Instron universal testing machine (∼10−3 to 10° s−1), drop-weight tower (∼200 s−1), and split Hopkinson pressure bar (103 s−1). The temperature dependence of the mechanical behavior was investigated at temperatures ranging from room temperature to 600 °C using the instrumented drop-weight testing apparatus, mounted with an inductive heating device. The deformed and fractured specimens were examined using optical and scanning electron microscopy. Stopped experiments were used to investigate deformation and failure mechanisms at specified strain intervals in both the drop weight and split Hopkinson bar tests. These stopped specimens were also subsequently examined using optical and scanning electron microscopy to observe shear band and crack formation and development after increasingly more strain. The overall results showed an increase in yield strength with strain rate and a decrease in failure strength, plasticity, and hardening with strain rate. Comparison of uniaxial and biaxial loading showed strong susceptibility to shear failure since the additional 10% shear stress caused failure at much lower strains in all cases. Results also showed a decrease in flow stress and plasticity with increased temperature. Also notable was the anomalous behavior at 450 °C, which lies between the Tg and Tx and is in a temperature regime where homogeneous flow, as opposed to heterogeneous deformation by shear banding, is the dominant mechanism in the bulk metallic glass.


Author(s):  
Dongyeon Lee ◽  
Hareesh V. Tippur ◽  
Brian J. Jensen ◽  
Philip B. Bogert

Tensile and fracture responses of the phenylethynyl terminated imide oligomer (PETI-5) are studied. Since this polymer is a candidate aerospace structural adhesive as well as a matrix material in composite systems, neat as well as fiber reinforced forms of PETI-5 are studied under static and dynamic loading conditions. A split-Hopkinson tension bar apparatus is used for performing tensile tests on dogbone specimens. The dynamic fracture tests are carried out using a drop tower in conjunction with 2D image correlation method and high-speed digital photography on edge cracked specimens in three-point bend configuration. A toughened neat epoxy system, Hexcel 3900, is also studied to provide a baseline comparison for neat PETI-5 system. The tensile stress-strain responses show PETI-5 to have excellent mechanical characteristics under quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions when compared with 3900. Fracture behavior of PETI-5 under quasi-static and impact loading conditions also shows superiority relative to 3900. The dynamic fracture behavior of a PETI-5 based graphite fiber reinforced composite, IM7/PETI-5, is also studied and the results are comparatively evaluated relative to the ones corresponding to a more common aerospace composite system, T800/3900-2 graphite/epoxy. Once again, the IM7/PETI-5 system shows excellent fracture performance in terms of dynamic crack initiation and growth behaviors.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarath Chandran ◽  
Wenqi Liu ◽  
Junhe Lian ◽  
Sebastian Münstermann ◽  
Patricia Verleysen

To assess the effect of stress state and strain rate on damage and fracture of a commercial DP1000 steel with a very fine microstructure, an extensive series of tests were performed. Using finite element simulations, eight different sample geometries, including a dogbone, a central hole, a shear and several notched samples, were designed to achieve both proportional and non-proportional stress states using conventional test benches. Tested at quasi-static, intermediate and, dynamic deformation rates, in total 175 tests were performed. Local strain fields were obtained by digital image correlation. A correction procedure was worked out to eliminate the influence of thermal softening. After testing, scanning electron microscopy was employed to analyse the fracture surfaces. Tests and fractography allowed to draw systematic conclusions on the response of the DP1000 steel. A two-stage strain rate sensitivity of strength is found with a gradually increasing slope at low strain rates and a much steeper rise at high strain rates, which is further amplified at higher triaxiality stress states. The experimentally derived fracture loci revealed a dominant, detrimental impact of the stress triaxiality that is most pronounced at intermediate strain rates. A remarkable, non-monotonic evolution of the fracture strain with strain rate is observed: the highest values were obtained at intermediate rates. Scanning electron microscopy images of the fracture surfaces indicate a void-assisted ductile fracture, though with the occurrence of brittle features triggered at dynamic strain rates. Fracture morphology and dimple features are heavily dependent on stress state, strain rate and loading path.


2012 ◽  
Vol 706-709 ◽  
pp. 2187-2192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Mizuguchi ◽  
Rintaro Ueji ◽  
Hayato Miyagawa ◽  
Yasuhiro Tanaka ◽  
Kazunari Shinagawa

The fracture behavior transition due to the change of strain rate in 5%Si magnetic steel with dislocation microstructures was studied. The Si steel was multi-passed rolled at 800°C to a various reductions up to 50%. The room temperature tensile deformation was conducted at various strain rates from 10-5/s to 100/s. All rolled steels were fractured in ductile manners with local elongation (necking) at slower strain rate. When strain rate was faster, the local elongation disappeared and the fracture manner was turned to brittle. The strain rate at which fracture mechanism changed from ductile to brittle increased with the increasing of the reduction. On the other hand, the almost fully recrystallized Si steel was fractured in the brittle manner at any strain rate and the transition strain rate was not found. The fractured tensile specimen with no local elongations contains deformation twins; whereas these deformation twins were not observed in the fractured specimen with local elongations. This result indicates that dislocation structure evolved during rolling suppressed the twinning and that the dislocation structure is effective for the enhancement of toughness in Si steel.


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