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A continuum model is proposed to study the effects of deformation twinning on interface crack kinking in metal/ceramics layered materials. At the final stage of material failure, plastic work hardening exhausts and lattice rotation becomes main mechanism after competing with dislocation gliding. The crack-tip plasticity is established in terms of the second gradient of microrotation due to the coupling effect of the twins. The formed twinning structures not only shield the crack tip, but inhibit further dislocation emission by increasing the near-tip stress levels. A Dislocation-Free Zone (DFZ) can exist in the immediate vicinity of the tip. The model is based on the equivalence of the stresses derived from twin-based crack-tip plasticity, macroscopic plasticity and elasticity on the boundary. The two-parameter characterization of near-tip stress fields is used for the outer plastic zone to account for constraint effects. Crack kinking out of the interface follows the direction of the maximum flow stress from the crack-tip plasticity. The DFZ size and the crack-tip shielding ratio, as well as the kink angle, are obtained for various values of low hardening exponents and crack-tip constraints.
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Zhang, X. A model on twinning-induced crack kinking out of a metal-ceramics interface. Int J Fract 152, 27–35 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-008-9263-x
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