Definition of fracture Simple fracture is the separation of a body into two or more pieces in response to an imposed stress that is static ie constant or slowly changing with time and ID: 1048546
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1. Introduction to Fracture mechanics
2. Definition of fracture Simple fracture is the separation of a body into two or more pieces in response to an imposed stress that is static (i.e., constant or slowly changing with time) and at temperatures that are low relative to the melting temperature of the material. The applied stress may be tensile, compressive, shear, or torsional.
3. Definition of fracture mechanics and toughness. The study of how materials fracture is known as “fracture mechanics” and the resistance of a material to fracture is known as its “toughness”. The theory of fracture mechanics assumes the pre-existence of cracks and develops criteria for the catastrophic growth of these cracks.
4. Accidents reported in 19th century.Out of 2500 liberty ships built in world war II, 145 ships broke in two.Steam turbines 1950.Framed welded tankers 1954.Comet aircraft 1955.King bridge in Melbourne 1962.Pleasant bridge in Virginia 1967.Tank Barge vessel 1972
5. An oil tanker that fractured in a brittle manner by crack propagation around its girth. (Photography by Neal Boenzi. Reprinted with permission from The New York Times.)
6. A natural gas pipeline that failed during field testing. From E. Parker, Brittle Fracture of Engineering Structures, Wiley, 1957, p. 269.
7. A ship that fractured while in port From C. F. Tipper, The Brittle Fracture Story, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963.
8. Crack modes: - I- Opening mode in tensile. II- In plane shear mode. III-Anti plane shear mode.
9. Photoelastic fringe pattern associated with a particular crack geometry.
10. Griffith crack theoryGriffith noted in 1921 that when a stressed plate of an elastic material containing a crack, the potential energy decreased and the surface energy increased.
11. The total potential energy of the system is given by = Potential energy of the cracked body.= Potential energy of uncracked body.= Elastic energy due to the presence of the crack.= Elastic-surface energy due to the formation of crack surfaces.a = One-half crack length. = Total surface crack area.= Specific surface energy.= 1 for plane stress and for plane strain.
12. rearranging it, we will get a significant expression in linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) The parameter is called the stress intensity factor.KIC is the fracture toughness.Fracture occurs when
13. Irwin theory
14. Stress intensity factor for different states: -Through- thickness central crack. for infinite plate. for plate of finite width
15. Single edge crack.
16. Double edge crack.
17. The End