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Propagation of a rapid crack in annular specimens of brittle steel

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Conclusions

  1. 1.

    Quenched steel is characterized by a fourfold increase in crack resistance with an increase in loading rate within the investigated range of high loading rates.

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    Crack velocity increases with an increase in the stress intensity in the material on the crack path.

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    Branching of the crack is due to an increase in stress intensity in the material on the crack path above a certain critical level. The amount by which this level is exceeded determines the character of the branching.

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    An increase in loading rate is accompanied by an increase in the angle between the secondary cracks and the initial crack, which is evidence of a change in the stress state at the tip of the moving crack with an increase in its velocity.

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  1. G. V. Stepanov
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Institute of Strength Problems, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 9, pp. 37–41, September, 1984.

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Stepanov, G.V., Makovei, V.A. Propagation of a rapid crack in annular specimens of brittle steel. Strength Mater 16, 1255–1260 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530000

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