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STP 1020
Fracture Mechanics:
Perspectives and Directions
(Twentieth Symposium)
Robert P. Wei and Richard P. Gangloff, editors
1916 Race Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Foreword
The Twentieth National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics was held on 23-25 June 1987
at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ASTM Committee E-24 on Fracture Testing
was the sponsor of this symposium. Robert P. Wei, Lehigh University, and Richard P.
Gangloff, University of Virginia, served as coeditors of this publication. Robert P. Wei also
served as chairman of the symposium.
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Contents
Overview
PART I--Invited Papers
ANALYTICAL FRACTURE MECHANICS
Fracture Mechanics in Two Decades--GEORGE C. SIH
Weight Function Theory for Three-Dimensional Elastic Crack Analysis--
JAMES R. RICE
NONLINEAR AND TIME-DEPENDENT FRACTURE MECHANICS
Softening Due to Void Nucleation in Metals--JOHN W. HUTCHINSON
AND VIGGO TVERGAARD
Results on the Influence of Crack-Tip Plasticity During Dynamic Crack
Growth--L. B. FREUND
MICROSTRUCTURE AND MICROMECHANICAL MODELING
Creep Crack Growth--HERMANN RIEDEL
The Role of Heterogeneities in Fracture--nLi s. ARGON
FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION
Mechanics and Micromechanics of Fatigue Crack Propagation--KEISUKE TANAKA
Microstructure and the Fracture Mechanics of Fatigue Crack Propagation--
E. A. STARKE~ JR.~ AND J. C. WILLIAMS
ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING
Microchemistry and Mechanics Issues in Stress Corrosion Cracking--
RUSSELL H. JONES, MICHAEL J. DANIELSON, AND DONALD R. BAER
Environmentally Assisted Crack Growth in Structural Alloys: Perspectives
and New Directions---ROBERT P. WEI AND RICHARD P. GANGLOFF
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61
84
101
127
151
184
209
233
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FRACTURE MECHANICS OF NONMETALS AND NEW FRONTIERS
The New High-Toughness Ceramics--A. G. EVANS 267
PART II--Contributed Papers
ANALYTICAL FRACTURE MECHANICS
Stress-Intensity Factors for Small Surface and Corner Cracks in Plates--
IVATURY S. RAJU, SATYA N. ATLURI, AND JAMES C. NEWMAN, JR.
Intersection of Surface Flaws with Free Surfaces: An Experimental Study--
C. W. SMITH, T. L. THEISS, AND M. REZVANI
An Efficient Finite-Element Evaluation of Explicit Weight Functions for
Mixed-Mode Cracks in an Orthotropic Material--GEORGE T. SHA,
CHIEN-TUNG YANG, AND JAMES S. ONG
Automated Generation of Influence Functions for Planar Crack
Problems--ROBERT A. SIRE, DAVID O. HARRIS AND ERNEST D. EASON
NONLINEAR AND TIME-DEPENDENT FRACTURE MECHANICS
Fracture Toughness in the Transition Regime for A533B Steel: Prediction of
Large Specimen Results from Small Specimen TestS--TERRY INGHAM,
NIGEL KNEE, IAN MILNE, AND EDDIE MORLAND
Plastic Collapse in Part-Wall Flaws in PlateS--ANTHONY A. WILLOUGHBY
AND TIM G. DAVEY
A Comparison of Crack-Tip Opening Displacement Ductile Instability
Analyses--J. ROBIN GORDON AND STEPHEN J. GARWOOD
MICROSTRUCTURE AND MICROMECHANICAL MODELING
Effect of Void Nucleation on Fracture Toughness of High-Strength
Austenitic Steels--PATRICK T. PURTSCHER, RICHARD P. REED,
AND DAVID T. READ
Dynamic Brittle Fracture Analysis Based on Continuum Damage Mechanics--
ER-PING CHEN
Effect of Loading Rate and Thermal Aging on the Fracture Toughness of
Stainless-Steel Alloys--WILLIAM J. MILLS
FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION
Fatigue Crack Growth Under Combined Mode I and Mode II Loading--
STEFANIE E. STANZL, MAXIMILIAN CZEGLEY, HERWIG R. MAYER,
AND ELMAR K. TSCHEGG
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317
327
351
369
390
410
433
447
459
479
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On the Influence of Crack Plane Orientation in Fatigue Crack Propagation
and Catastrophic Failure--LESLIE BANKS-SILLS AND DANIEL SCHUR 497
Fracture Mechanics Model of Fatigue Crack Closure in Steel--
YOICHI TANAKA AND ISAO SOYA 514
A Finite-Element Investigation of Viscoplastic-lnduced Closure of Short
Cracks at High Temperatures--ANTHONY PALAZOTFO AND E. BEDNARZ
Crack Opening Under Variable Amplitude Loads--FARREL J. ZWERNEMAN
AND KARL H. FRANK
530
548
ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING
Strain-Induced Hydrides and Hydrogen-Assisted Crack Growth in a
Ti-6AI-4V AUoy--SHU-JUN GAO, HAN-ZHONG XIAO, AND XIAO-JING WAN
Gaseous-Environment Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior of a Low-Alloy
Steel--P. K. LIAW, T. R. LEAX, AND J. K. DONALD
569
581
The Crack Velocity-K~ Relationship for AISI 4340 in Seawater Under Fixed
and Rising Displacement--RONALD A. MAYVILLE, THOMAS J. WARREN,
AND PETER D. HILTON 605
Influence of Cathodic Charging on the Tensile and Fracture Properties of
Three High-Strength Steels--VERONIQUE TREMBLAY, PHUC NGUYEN-DUY,
AND J. IVAN DICKSON 615
Threshold Crack Growth Behavior of Nickel-Base Superalloy at Elevated
Temperature--NOEL E. ASHBAUGH AND THEODORE NICHOLAS
FRACTURE MECHANICS OF NONMETALS AND NEW FRONTIERS
628
Strength of Stress Singularity and Stress-lntensity Factors for a Transverse Crack
in Finite Symmetric Cross-Ply Laminates Under Tension--JIA-MIN BAI
AND TSU-TAO LOO 641
Fracture Behavior of Compacted Fine-Grained SoiIS--HSAI-YANG FANG,
G. K. MILROUDIS, AND SIBEL PAMUKCU 659
Fracture-Mechanics Approach to Tribology Problems--YUKITAKA MURAKAMI
AND MOTOHIRO KANETA 668
INDEXES
Author Index 691
Subject Index 693
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STP1020-EB/Nov. 1989
Overview
Fracture mechanics forms the basis of a maturing technology and is used in quantifying
and predicting the strength, durability, and reliability of structural components that contain
cracks or crack-like defects. First utilized in the late 1940s to analyze catastrophic fractures
in ships, the fracture mechanics approach found applications and increased acceptance in
the aerospace industries through the late 1950s and early 1960s. Much of the early work was
spearheaded by Dr. George R. Irwin and his co-workers at the U,S. Naval Research Laboratory and was nurtured through a special technical committee of ASTM, chaired by Dr.
John R. Low. Over the past 20 years, fracture mechanics has undergone major development
and has become an important subdiscipline in solid mechanics and an enabling technology
for materials development, component and system design, safety and life assessments, and
scientific inquiries. The contributions are now utilized in the design and analysis of chemical
and petrochemical equipment, fossil and nuclear power generation systems, marine structures, bridges and transportation systems, and aerospace vehicles. The fracture mechanics
approach is being used to address all of the major mechanisms of material failure; namely,
ductile and cleavage fracture, stress corrosion cracking, fatigue and corrosion fatigue, and
creep cracking, From its origin in glass and high strength metallic materials, the approach
is currently applied to most classes of materials; including metallic materials, ceramics,
polymers, composites, soils, and rocks.
The first National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics was organized by Professor Paul
C. Paris, and was held on the campus of Lehigh University in June 1967. The National
Symposium has gained prominence and international recognition and serves as an important
international forum for fracture mechanics research and applications under the sponsorship
of ASTM Committee E-24 on Fracture Testing. It has been held annually since 1967, with
the exception of 1977. The growth of the National Symposium has paralleled the development
and utilization of fracture mechanics. Landmark papers and Special Technical Publications
have resulted from this Symposium series. It is appropriate that this, the 20th anniversary
meeting of the National Symposium, be held again at Lehigh University and that the proceedings be archived in an ASTM book.
At this anniversary, following from two decades of intense and successful developments,
it is appropriate and timely to conduct an introspective examination of the field of fracture
mechanics and to define directions for future work. The Organizing Committee, therefore,
set the following goals for the 20th National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, Fracture
Mechanics: Perspectives and Directions:
1. To provide perspective overviews of major developments in important areas of fracture
mechanics and of associated applications over the past two decades.
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2. To highlight directions for future developments and applications of fracture mechanics,
particularly those needed to encompass the nontraditional areas.
To achieve the stated goals, the technical program was organized into the following six
sessions:
(a~ Analytical Fracture Mechanics
(b) Nonlinear and Time Dependent Fracture Mechanics
(c) Microstructure and Micromechanical Modeling
(d) Fatigue Crack Propagation
(e) Environmentally Assisted Cracking
(f) Fracture Mechanics of Nonmetals and New Frontiers
This Special Technical Publication accurately adheres to the objectives and approach of
the Symposium. The twelve invited review papers, organized topically in the order of their
presentation in one section, provide authoritative and comprehensive descriptions of the
state of the art and important challenges in each of the six topical areas. The worker new
to the field will be able to survey current understanding through the use of these seminal
contributions. The thirty-one contributed papers, organized topically in a separate section,
provide reports of current research. These papers are of particular importance to fracture
mechanics researchers.
Although each manuscript was subjected to rigorous peer reviews in accordance with
ASTM procedures, the authors of invited review papers were encouraged to respond
thoughtfully to the reviewers comments and suggestions, but were granted considerable
latitude to exercise their judgment on the final manuscript. This action was taken by the
Editors to preserve the personal (vis-d-vis, a consensus) perspective of the individual experts,
and to accurately reflect agreements and differences in opinion on the direction of future
research. The invited papers, therefore, need to be read in this context. The opinions
expressed and positions taken by the individual authors are not necessarily endorsed by the
author's peers, the Editors, or the ASTM.
The review papers document the significant progress achieved over the past two decades
of active research in fracture mechanics. Collectively, the authors provide compelling arguments for the need of continued development and exploitation of this technology, and
insights on the challenges that must be faced. Some of the specific challenges are as follows:
1. On the analytical front, we must expand upon the effort to integrate continuum fracture
mechanics analyses with the microscopic processes which govern local fracture at the
crack tip.
2. In the area of advanced heterogeneous materials, fracture mechanics methods must
be further developed and applied to describe novel failure modes. Claims of high
performance for these materials must be supported by quantitative and scalable characterizations of fracture resistance that is relevant to specific applications.
3. In the area of subcfitical crack growth (for both fatigue and sustained-load crack growth
in deleterious environments and at elevated temperatures), the gains in understanding
from multidisciplinary (mechancis, chemistry, and materials science) research must be
reduced to practical life prediction methodologies. The critical issues of formulating
mechanistically based procedures that enable the extrapolation of short-term laboratory
data in predicting long-term service performance (that is, from weeks to decades) must
be addressed.
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4. In the area of education, we must better inform engineering students and practitioners
on the interdisciplinary nature and intricacies of the material failure problem, whether
by subcritical crack growth or by catastrophic defect-nucleated fracture. We must also
continue to develop and to communicate governing ASTM standards to the engineering
community.
This volume demonstrates that the existing fracture mechanics foundation is well positioned
to meet these challenges over the next decade.
Professors Paul C. Paris and George R. Irwin provided important insights during the
closing of the symposium and at the Conference Banquet. The banquet provided an opportunity for the awarding of the first ASTM E-24 Fracture Mechanics Medals to Professors
Irwin and Paris.
We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the Symposium Organizing Committee:
R. Badaliance (NRL), T. W. Crooker (NASA Headquarters), F. Erdogan (Lehigh University) and R. H. Van Stone (GE-Evandale), and of the Session Chairmen: R. Badaliance,
R. J. Bucci (ALCOA), S. C. Chou (AROD), F. Erdogan, J. Gilman (EPRI), R. J. Gottschall
(DOE/BES), D. G. Harlow (Lehigh), C. Hartley (NSF), R. Jones (EPRI), R. C. Pohanka
(ONR), A. H. Rosenstein (AFOSR), A. J. Sedriks (ONR), D. P. Wilhelm (Northrop); the
assistance of the Local Committee: Terry Delph, Gary Harlow, Ron Hartranft, and Gary
Miller; the hospitality of Lehigh University; and especially the skill and devotion of the
Symposium Secretary, Mrs. Shirley Simmons.
We particularly acknowledge the work of our many colleagues who participated as authors,
as speakers, and in the technical review process; the support of the ASTM staff; and the
able editorial assistance provided by Helen Hoersch and her colleagues.
Financial support by the Office of Naval Research is gratefully acknowledged. All of the
funds were used to provide matching support to graduate students across the United States
so that they can participate in this introspective review of fracture mechanics. Nearly 30
students participated, and all of them expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to
attend.
Robert P. Wei
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Richard P. Gangloff
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
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PART I
Invited Papers
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Analytical Fracture Mechanics
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George C. Sih t
Fracture Mechanics in Two Decades
REFERENCE: Sih, G. C., "k'Sracture Mechanics in Two Decades," Fracture Mechanics: Perspectives and Directions (Twentieth Symposium), ASTM STP 1020, R. P. Wei and R. P.
Gangloff, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 9-28.
ABSTRACT: A brief historical and technical perspective precedes emphasizing the need to
understand some of the fundamental characteristics of fracture. What the state of the art was
two decades ago is no longer adequate in the era of modern technology. Observed mechanisms
of failure at the atomic, microscopic, and macroscopic scale will continue to be elusive if the
combined interaction of space/time/temperature interaction is not considered. The resolution
of analysis, whether analytical or experimental or both, needs to be clearly identified with
reference to local and global failure. Microdamage versus macrofracture is discussed in connection with the exchange of surface and volume energy, which is inherent in the material
damage process. This gives rise to dilatation/distortion associated with cooling/heating at the
prospective sites of failure initiation. Analytical predictions together with experimental results
are presented for the compact tension and central crack specimens.
KEY WORDS: surface and volume energy, change of volume with surface, dilatation and
distortion, cooling and heating, energy dissipation, material damage, space/time/temperature
interaction, thermal/mechanical effects, crack initiation and growth
The rapid advance of technology in the past two decades has substantially altered the
performance limits and reliability objectives dealing with the application of advanced materials. More and more of the conventional metals, whose mechanical and failure behavior
are characterized by macroparameters in an homogeneous fashion, are being replaced by
multi-phase materials such as composites that reflect a complex dependence on their constituents or microstructure. Past methodologies [1-3] which relied on a single-parameter
characterization are no longer adequate as the new materials become more applicationspecific. New concepts are needed to replace the old ones, making this communication on
fracture mechanics quite timely.
Fracture mechanics became a recognized discipline after World War II because of the
inability of continuum-mechanics theories to address failure by unexpected fracture, a situation that occurs less frequently as the trade-off between strength and fracture toughness
is now better understood. Research activities have fallen into two categories: material science
and continuum mechanics. The former seeks to look at damage from a microscopic or
atomistic viewpoint or both, determining what happens to the atoms and grains of a solid,
which is beyond the scope of this discussion. The latter attempts to formalize the results of
macroscopic experiments without probing very deeply into the origin and physics of how
failure initiates. It would be desirable to have a unique approach such that the hierarchy of
the physical damage mechanisms, each dominant over a certain range of load-time history
Professor of mechanics and director of the Institute of Fracture and Solid Mechanics, Packard
Laboratory No. 19, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
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can be assessed quantitatively when material or geometry or both are changed. This goal
will be emphasized.
The translation of data collected from specimens with or without a crack to the design of
larger structural components has been problematic. It is the common practice to employ
both uniaxial and fracture data for predicting structural behavior. This is an oversupply 2 of
input data and introduces arbitrariness and inconsistency into the analysis. Linear elastic
fracture mechanics (LEFM) based on the toughness parameter Kk or Gic merely addresses
a go and no-go situation. It implies a unique amount of energy release for a small crack
extension that triggers rapid fracture. Such a concept obviously has no room in situations
where a crack grows slowly at first and then rapidly. The irresistible urge to characterize
ductile fracture for the development of small specimen tests without an understanding of
the underlying physics and principles has hindered progress. Among the two leading candidates were the crack opening displacement (COD) [6] and J-integral approach [7]. The
COD measurements, being sensitive to changes in strain rate, triaxiality of stress, specimen
size and geometry, etc., served little or no useful purpose in design. Application of the
J-integral caused a great deal of confusion because the idea applies only to elastic deformation
and the same symbol J has been used [7,8] to represent the variations of areas under the
load-extension versus crack length curve that include the effect of permanent deformation.
What should be remembered is that the formalism of J precludes the distinction 3 of energy
used in permanent deformation and crack extension that are interwoven in the experimental
data. It would, therefore, be totally misleading to interpret J as the crack driving force
except in the elastic case for then it is identically equal to G. The experimental data [8] did
not yield a linear relation between J and crack growth. Alternate forms of dJ/da were
suggested [9] and resulted in nonlinear crack growth resistance curves. 4
The Charpy V-Notch (CVN) impact test is another empirical method for collecting data
on dynamic fracture with no consideration given to rate effect? It has been used for establishing the nil ductility temperature (NDT). The rate at which energy is actually used to
create dynamic fracture must be isolated from other forms of energy dissipation such as
plastic deformation, acoustic emission, etc., in order to obtain a reliable assessment of the
time-dependent failure process. Current research [13] has not yet recognized that dynamic
fracture is inherently load dependent and cannot be characterized by a single parameter
such as/(1o. One of the major shortcomings of the conventional approaches is that they
failed to separate the fracture energy from other forms of energy dissipation. This is why
COD, J, CVN, KID, etc., are all sensitive to change in loading and specimen geometry and
size. In this regard, they can hardly be claimed as fracture toughness parameters; much less,
as material constants. A detailed discussion of their limitations can be found in Refs 14 and
15.
The empirical "4th power law" [16] on relating the crack growth rate da/dN and change
2 There are no difficulties to predict the fracture behavior of cracked specimens by using uniaxial
data only [4,5].
3 The separation of energy dissipated by permanent deformation and crack extension is not additive.
This was not recognized by those who attempted to formally include the so-called plastic deformation
term in the J-integral approach.
4 Data collected on precracked polycarbonate specimens [10] showed that the dJ/da = const, condition was not satisfied. This was pointed out and discussed in Ref 11. The strain energy density factor
S, when plotted against crack growth, did yield a linear relationship such that specimen size and loading
rate effects can then be easily resolved by interpolation.
5 The Charpy impact energy normally specified in foot-pounds is not sufficient to describe dynamic
fracture. The rate of energy used to initiate dynamic fracture as distinguished from that dissipated in
plastic deformation and other forms is the relevant quantity [12].
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in Mode I stress-intensity factor AK continues to dominate the literature on fatigue. Such
a correlation was found to be invalid when moisture effects were accounted for [17]. A
multitude of the so-called fatigue crack propagation laws have been proposed to correct
separately for the mean stress, specimen thickness, temperature, crack size, crack opening,
or closure effects. None of them had any theoretical basis. The majority applied elasticity
to a process that is inherently dissipative. Thresholds in AK were found to disappear when
the same crack growth data were replotted against change in energy release rate, AG. The
influence of mean stress on da/dN reversed in trend for some metals. Special treatments
were suggested for "small or short cracks" as data showed considerable scatter on the
da/dN versus AK plot. It was only discovered later that AK was simply the wrong parameter to use [18]. The phenomenon of crack retardation due to occasional overload in fatigue
has not been explained adequately.
Contrived explanation and data gathering in the absence of theoretical support are destined
to fall by the wayside. Unless the basic fundamentals of energy dissipation associated with
material damage are understood and quantified, fracture mechanics will not withstand the
rigors of progress. Verbal or elegant, or both, mathematical descriptions of already known
and observed events cannot be considered original research for they merely serve as a means
of bookkeeping. Predictive capability is needed such that simple test data can be used to
forecast the behavior of more complex systems regardless of whether they are loaded monotonically, repeatedly, or dynamically. A unified approach for addressing material damage
at the atomic, microscopic, and macroscopic scale levels is long overdue. With this objective
in mind, a few selected topics are chosen to illustrate some of the fundamental aspects of
the fracture process that are not commonly known.
Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Fracture
Fracture 6 is a process that involves the creation of free surface at the microscopic and
macroscopic scale level. It entails a hierarchy of failure modes, each associated with a certain
range of stress, strain rate, temperature, and material type. Examinations are frequently
traced to the ways with which damages are influenced by the microstructure. The empirical
results have been couched in terms of void growth, cleavage failure, brittle fracture, ductile
fracture, etc. Although observations can be made on failure mechanisms, it has been very
difficult to construct a quantitative theory of failure or damage that can relate the microscopic
entities to the useful macroscopic variables. These difficulties can, in retrospect, be identified
with the inability of theories such as elasticity, plasticity, etc., to account for the irreversible
nature of thermal/mechanical interactions that are inherent in the fracture process. These
effects are assumed to be mutually exclusive in classical mechanics that invoke the independence of surface and volume energy or the decoupling of mechanical deformation and
thermal fluctuation. 7 Addition of the different energy forms leaves out coupling effects that
are, in themselves, problematic. Quantitative assessment of the fracture process cannot be
achieved without an understanding of the underlying physics.
Surface Energy Density
Prior to modeling of the fracture process, it would be instructive to specify the resolution
of the analysis with reference to defect size and microstructure detail. Figures la to lc
6 In this communication, fracture pertains to material discontinuities at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Imperfections at the atomic level should be referred to as vacancies, dislocations, etc.
7 Isothermal condition can only be realized conceptually in the limit as disturbances or changes become
infinitesimally small.
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