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Modeling Temperature-Driven Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Fracture in Ferritic Steels

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The most catastrophic brittle failure in ferritic steels is observed as their tendency of losing almost all of their toughness when the temperature drops below their ductile-to-brittle transition (DBT) temperature. There have been put large efforts in experimental and theoretical studies to clarify the controlling mechanism of this transition; however, it still remains unclear how to model accurately the coupled ductile∕brittle fracture behavior of ferritic steels in the region of ductile-to-brittle transition.

Therefore, in this study, an important attempt is made to model coupled ductile∕brittle fracture by means of blended micro-void and micro-cracks. To this end, a thermomechanical finite strain-coupled plasticity and continuum damage mechanics models which incorporate the blended effects of micro-heterogeneities in the form of micro-cracks and micro-voids are proposed.

In order to determine the proposed model material constant, a set of finite element model, where the proposed unified framework, which characterizes ductile-to-brittle fracture behavior of ferritic steels, is implemented as a VUMAT, is performed by modeling the benchmark experiment given in the experimental research published by Turba et al., then, using these models as a departure point, the fracture response of the small punch fracture testing is investigated numerically at 22∘C and − 196∘C and at which the fracture is characterized as ductile and brittle, respectively.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering-Architecture, Department of Civil Engineering, Uludag University, Bursa, Görükle, Turkey

    Babür Deliktaş

  2. Mechanical Design Department, Meteksan Defence, Ankara, Turkey

    Ismail Cem Turtuk

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Uludag Univeristy, Bursa, Turkey

    Ismail Cem Turtuk

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    George Z. Voyiadjis

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Deliktaş, B., Turtuk, I.C., Voyiadjis, G.Z. (2019). Modeling Temperature-Driven Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Fracture in Ferritic Steels. In: Voyiadjis, G. (eds) Handbook of Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58729-5_6

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