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Effect of prestrain on ductility and toughness in a high-strength line pipe steel

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Fracture properties of a mother plate for API grade X100 line pipe after pre-straining up to 6% are investigated using tensile notched bars and CT pre-cracked specimens. The material has an anisotropic plastic and damage behavior due to the thermo-mechanical control rolling process. Experiments evidence a decrease in both ductility and toughness for both rolling and long transverse direction with increasing prestrains. This effect is however more pronounced at low prestrain levels (\(0\rightarrow 2\%\)) than at higher levels (\(2\rightarrow 4\rightarrow 6\%\)). The modified GTN model proposed by Shinohara et al. (Int J Fract 197:127–145, 2016) is used to represent the database. A good agreement is obtained provided some damage model parameters are modified so as to obtain a slightly higher damage rate for the prestrained materials. This represents the fact that void growth tends to be faster for materials with a lower work hardening rate as evidenced by unit cell calculations. In addition, stress/strain distributions in test specimens are modified for reduced hardening so that stress triaxiality is increased at failure initiation points. This further lowers measured mechanical properties.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Nippon Steel Corporation (now Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation) for financial support to this study.

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  1. MINES ParisTech, Centre des Matériaux, CNRS UMR, PSL Research University, Evry, 7633, Paris, France

    Yazid Madi, Yasuhiro Shinohara & Jacques Besson

  2. Ermess, EPF-École d’ingénieurs, Sceaux, France

    Yazid Madi

  3. Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Chiyoda City, Japan

    Yasuhiro Shinohara

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Madi, Y., Shinohara, Y. & Besson, J. Effect of prestrain on ductility and toughness in a high-strength line pipe steel. Int J Fract 224, 15–29 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-020-00442-6

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