Constraint Effects on Fracture Toughness of Impact Loaded, Pre-cracked Charpy Specimens

Koppenhoefer, K.C.; Dodds, Robert H., Jr.

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Title

Constraint Effects on Fracture Toughness of Impact Loaded, Pre-cracked Charpy Specimens

Author(s)

• Koppenhoefer, K.C.
• Dodds, Robert H., Jr.

Issue Date

1995-06

Keyword(s)

• Fracture toughness
• Charpy specimens
• J-integral
• Finite elements

Abstract

Impact loaded, pre-cracked Charpy specimens often play a crucial role in irradiation surveillance programs for nuclear power plants. However, the small specimen size (B = W = 10 mm) limits the maximum value of cleavage fracture toughness (Jc ) that can be measured under elastic-plastic conditions without loss of crack tip constraint. In this investigation, plane-strain impact analyses provide detailed resolution of crack-tip fields for impact loaded specimens. Crack-tip stress fields are characterized in terms of J-Q trajectories and the Toughness Scaling Model which is applicable for a cleavage fracture mechanism. Results of the analyses suggest deformation limits at fracture in the form of b >MJc/ao, where M approaches 25-30 for a strongly rate sensitive material at impact velocities of 3-6 m/ s. Based on direct comparison of the static and dynamic J-values computed using a domain-integral formulation, a new proposal emerges for the transition time, the time after impact at which inertial effects diminish sufficiently for simple evaluation of J using the plastic eta factor approach.

Publisher

University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Civil Engineering Studies SRS-603

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Division of Engineering.
• Contract N00167-92-K-0038

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