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The effects of microstructure on through-thickness fracture properties of a Ti-V-N plate steel have been determined directly by through-thickness tensile tests and indirectly by studying delamination fractures in longitudinal tensile and Charpy tests. The initiation of ductile fracture is primarily controlled by inclusions, but overall ductility is influenced by microstructure such that the tensile fracture strain is higher for ferrite-pearlite microstructures than for ferrite-bainite or ferrite-martensite. The cleavage fracture stress is lower for steels which have been rolled belowAr 3 and contain deformed ferrite than for steels finish rolled aboveAr 3. Measurements of true stress and true strain for fracture initiation qualitatively fit a model which assumes cleavage fracture occurs at a critical stress, ductile rupture at a critical strain, and a transition fracture mode comprising ductile initiation followed by cleavage.
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Dogan, B., Boyd, J.D. Through-thickness fracture of a Ti-V-N plate steel. Metall Trans A 21, 1177–1191 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02656537
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