Fracture toughness characterisation in the ductile-to-brittle transition and upper shelf regimes using pre-cracked Charpy single-edge bend specimens

International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 649-667

  Heerens, Juergen ^a   Ainsworth, R A ^b   Moskovic, R ^c   Wallin, K ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ENERGY GENERATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c Berkeley Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Constraint effects; Ductile to brittle transition regime; Engineering lower bound toughness method; Exponential curve fitting method; Fracture toughness; Master Curve method; Pre cracked Charpy SE(B) specimens; Pressure vessel steel

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; DUCTILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

CLEAVAGE FAILURE; CLEAVAGE TOUGHNESS; EXPONENTIAL CURVE FITTING METHODS (ECF); MASTER CURVE METHOD (MC);

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PRESSURE VESSEL;

EID: 20444366898     PISSN: 03080161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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