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Fracture mechanisms for widely used metal materials are investigated under various loading conditions. Several specimens and different loading methods are deliberately designed to produce various stress states. The stress triaxiality is used to rate the level of tension and compression under various stress states. The stress triaxiality increases with adding a notch in the specimen under tension loading and decreases by changing the loading from tension to compression. Scanning electron microscopes are used to observe the microscopic features on the fracture surfaces. The fracture surfaces observed in the tests indicate that with the decreasing stress triaxiality the fracture mechanism for a given metal material includes intergranular cleavage, nucleation, growth, void coalescence, and local shear band expansion. With the fracture mechanisms changing from intergranular cleavage to nucleation, growth, and coalescence of voids, and expansion of a local shear band, four possible fracture modes can be observed, which are quasi-cleavage brittle fracture, normal fracture with void, shear fracture with void, and shear fracture without void. Quasi-cleavage brittle fracture and normal fracture with void are both normal stress-dominated fracture modes; however, their mechanisms are different. Shear fracture with and without void are both shear stress-dominated fracture, and shear fracture with void is also influenced by the normal stress. To a certain metal material, under high stress triaxiality, quasi-cleavage brittle fracture and normal fracture with void tend to occur, and under low stress triaxiality, shear fracture with and without void tend to occur. In addition, the critical positions and fracture criteria adapted to each fracture mode will also be different.
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Li, Z., Shi, J. & Tang, A. Investigation on fracture mechanisms of metals under various stress states. Acta Mech 225, 1867–1881 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-013-1024-x
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