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Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Sintered Steel at Elevated Temperatures: Part I. Fracture Toughness
Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Sintered Steel at Elevated Temperatures: Part I. Fracture Toughness
Fracture and Fatigue Behavior of Sintered Steel at Elevated Temperatures: Part I. Fracture Toughness
I. INTRODUCTION
strain model are the most successful ones, of which the basic
concept relies on the fact that the crack onset occurs when
the stress or strain reaches a certain critical value at a certain
distance from the crack tip. The critical stress or strain, an
intrinsic property, is commonly related to tensile fracture
stress or ductility. The certain distance is determined by
the microscopic features of materials. The critical stress or
critical strain model might also provide the mechanisms
for understanding the apparent correlation between KIC and
fracture resistance of powder metallurgy materials.
The objectives of this article are to investigate the fracture
resistance of the sintered steel as a function of temperature
experimentally, and to study whether the critical stress or
the critical strain mechanism could also explain the apparent
validity of using KIC in the sintered steel by numerically
analyzing the stress/strain fields near the crack tip.
The numerical modeling of stress and strain fields near the
crack tip of solid with voids has been a research focus.[1419]
Previous finite element modeling studies were more concentrated on the void nearest to the crack and on the growth or
interaction of this void with the crack. Such studies mainly
focused on ductile fracture with large plastic deformation
in which void growth in front of a crack is critical to the
crack propagation process. Inspired by the previous studies,
in this article, we have adopted elastic-plastic finite element
modeling and also considered the certain features of porous
materials such as the not necessarily large deformation of
pores during fracture and the effects of pore spatial distributions on the fracture resistance.