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Tensile strength and fracture toughness of brittle materials considering and connecting microstructure and atomicity
Prof. Francisco G. Emmerich
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Bresil
Lundi 22/06/2009, 11:00
SPEC Bât 466 p.111 (1er ét.), CEA-Saclay
This work addresses the fracture properties of brittle materials under tension by using a force-atomistic approach: we analyze the forces that act in the solid down to the smallest characteristic dimensions between the atoms or unit cells (or grains), discussing from fundamental principles the criterion for brittle fracture initiation. We take into account the forces due to the applied stress and the material cohesion forces, particularly at the crack tip, where the local hyperelasticity of the material plays a governing role, analyzing the minimum characteristic length scale around the point where the fracture begins. We connect microstructure and atomicity by using the concept of a total stress concentration factor, equivalent to a local resultant force, which can be obtained through the interaction of two multiplicative terms. By using an experimentally proved maximum tensile-stress criterion of bond rupture, based on the satisfaction of the static equilibrium condition given by Newton’s second law up to the beginning of the rupture, we obtain a general expression for the tensile strength, which can be simplified through an effective local cohesive stress. By using the approximation of the stress concentration factor obtained from the concept of equivalent ellipse, we obtain expressions for the tensile strength and fracture toughness. Thus, we explain in a unified framework from fundamental principles a set of established experimental results of brittle fracture of materials under tension, including the dependence of the tensile strength on the crack tip radius of curvature, and some scatter in reported values of fracture toughness and cleavage surface energy. This work can be useful to make more realistic predictions of fracture properties of brittle materials taking into account microstructure and atomicity. It also points out some inadequacies in Griffith theory (1920) and discusses possible dangers in terms of structural safety.
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