EFFECT OF YIELD RATIO ON FRACTURE TOUGHNESS FOR HIGH STRENGTH STEEL
JING Hongyang; HUO Lixing; ZHANG Yufeng(Tianjin Universitx; Tianjin 300072);TO YODA Masao; FUJITA Asako(Osaka University Japan 565) (Manuscript received 1 995-04-04)
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JING Hongyang; HUO Lixing; ZHANG Yufeng(Tianjin Universitx; Tianjin 300072);TO YODA Masao; FUJITA Asako(Osaka University Japan 565) (Manuscript received 1 995-04-04). EFFECT OF YIELD RATIO ON FRACTURE TOUGHNESS FOR HIGH STRENGTH STEEL. Acta Metall Sin, 1996, 32(3): 265-268.
Abstract Three point bending CTOD tests have been conducted for two kinds of high strength steels with same chemical compositions but different yield ratio. Distributions of the stress and the strain in the vicinity of crack tip were also studied by three dimensional finite element analysis. It has been shown that the steel with higher yield ratio, comparing with the lower one, has the lower brittle initial CTOD δc , because of the higher stress level in the vicinity of its crack tip; but it has better ductile fracture resistance, because the micro strength heterogenity in the lower yield ratio dual-phase steel causes strain concentration. Correspondent: JING Hongyang, associated professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072