Fracture toughness testing of weld metal: Results of a European round robin

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 963-973

  Hadley, I ^a   Dawes, M G ^a  

^a Structural Integrity Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BS7448:Part 2; Fracture toughness of weldments; Reproducibility of data; Round robin results

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WELDS;

LOW CYCLE FATIGUE;

WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 0030206176     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb01032.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Ic, critical CTOD and critical J values of metallic materials, British Standard Institution.
2. O. L. Towers (1983) Fatigue crack front shape and its effect on fracture toughness measurements. ASTM J. Test. Eval. 11(1), 34-45.
3. M. G. Dawes, H. G. Pisarski and S. J. Squirrell (1989) Fracture mechanics tests on welded joints. ASTM STP 995, Volume II, pp. 191-213.
4. O. L. Towers and M. G. Dawes (1985) Welding Institute research on the fatigue precracking of fracture toughness specimens. ASTM STP 856, pp. 23-46.
5. M. Koçak, K. Seifert, S. Yao and H. Lampe (1990) Comparison of fatigue precracking methods for fracture toughness testing of weldments: local compression and step-wise high R-ratio. In: Welding-90, 22-24 October 1990, pp. 307-318. Geesthacht, Germany.
6. H. S. Reemsnyder, H. G. Pisarski and M. G. Dawes (1992) Residual stresses and fatigue precracking techniques for weldment fracture toughness specimens, ASTM J. Test. Eval. 20(6), 416-423.
7. O. L. Towers, S. Williams and J. D. Harrison (1985) ECSC collaborative elastic-plastic fracture toughness testing and assessment methods. ECSC report 7210-KE/805, EUR 9552 EN.
8. I. Hadley and M. G. Dawes (1995) Collaborative fracture mechanics research on scatter in fracture tests and analyses on welded joints in steel. ECSC report 7210-KE/817, 15998.
9. W. J. Conover (1980) Practical Nonparametric Statistics. John Wiley & Sons Inc.