Modeling of Ductile Fracture Toughness Using Advanced Indentation System

摘要

Fracture properties of various structural steels were determined non-destructively using the advanced indentation system (AIS), which is developed on the basis of continuous indentation technique. In this study, conventional critical strain model was modified to predict the ductile fracture toughness from the AIS data. In deriving the ductile fracture toughness model, fracture strain and characteristic length were estimated using the stress triaxiality and the work-hardening exponent. AIS tests were conducted on carbon steels, stainless steels, aluminum alloys and copper alloys. For all these materials, the results of indentation test were compared to those of the standard fracture toughness test methods, which shows that the present analysis can predict successfully the ductile fracture toughness of structural steels.