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Revisiting the first Sandia Fracture Challenge with transient deformation heating and strain localization considerations

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Here, we present a systematic experimental study and accompanying theoretical analysis of the dependence of ductile fracture on strain localization, strain hardening rates, deformation-induced thermal softening, and transient heat conduction under spatially uniform as well as spatially heterogeneous deformation. Spatially uniform cases are studied via standard dogbone shaped specimens subject to uniaxial tension. Spatially heterogeneous deformation is studied via the so-called Sandia Fracture Challenge (SFC) specimen, which is a standard compact tension specimen modified with three machined holes in front of a blunt notch (Boyce et al. in Int J Fract 186(1–2):5–68, 2014). We utilize the same precipitation hardened martensitic stainless steel used in the first SFC experiments, i.e. 15-5 PH with an H1075 heat treatment. We also study 15-5 PH in Condition A and with the H900 heat treatment, each of which has a different hardening behavior and ductility. We find that the ductility does not correlate with the deformation to first crack initiation in the SFC specimen. Instead, hardening rates are better correlated. Moreover, a re-examination of (Boyce et al. in Int J Fract 186(1–2):5–68, 2014) finds that an accurate calibration of the hardening rates is strongly correlated with accurate blind predictions of ductile fracture in the SFC specimens. Given that thermal softening can greatly affect hardening rates, we provided a thermographic analysis of deformation-induced heating and transient heat transfer in both the dogbone shaped samples and the SFC specimens. Transient heating in stainless steels is found to have first-order effects on the strain at the onset of necking, strain to fracture, as well as strain localization and ductile fracture in complex geometries even under so-called quasi-static loading rates.

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This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Defense through Grant number W911NF-15-1-0456 as well as by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award number FA9550-16-1-0204.

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Huber, Z., Wilkerson, J.W. Revisiting the first Sandia Fracture Challenge with transient deformation heating and strain localization considerations. Int J Fract 226, 197–217 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-020-00487-7

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