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Void/pore distributions and ductile fracture

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The dependence of ductile, microvoid fracture on the size and distribution of voids or pores has been modeled experimentally. Pores or voids have been physically modeled in two dimensions by both random and regular arrays of equi-sized holes drilled through the thickness of tensile specimens of 1100-0 Al sheet and 7075-T6 Al plate and sheet. Fracture strains as well as failure paths have been determined for different hole sizes, spacings, and area fractions. A statistical analysis of the data indicates that increasing the minimum hole spacing, which decreases the degree of hole clustering, increases both strength and ductility. Conversely, decreasing the hole size causes a minor increase in both strength and ductility. Increasing the rate of work hardening is beneficial to ductility in that a high strain hardening rate appears to increase the resistance to flow localization between holes. The results are discussed in terms of a fracture process which depends on shear localization between holes/voids and which is very sensitive to void/pore distributions.

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  1. Boride Products, 2879 Aero Park Drive, 49684, Traverse City, MI

    E. M. Dubensky

  2. Metals Science and Engineering Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, PA

    D. A. Koss (Chairman)

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This paper is based on a presentation made at the symposium “Stochastic Aspects of Fracture” held at the 1986 annual AIME meeting in New Orleans, LA, on March 2-6, 1986, under the auspices of the ASM/MSD Flow and Fracture Committee.

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Dubensky, E.M., Koss, D.A. Void/pore distributions and ductile fracture. Metall Trans A 18, 1887–1895 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02647018

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