Abstract
Fracture toughness testing in the transition region often causes ductile tearing to precede cleavage fracture. The effect of ductile tearing on the fracture probability has in recent years become a subject of great interest. Brückner and Munz have developed a Weibull statistics based model to describe this effect. In this paper a similar model, based on the WST-model, is derived. The model is applied to several different sets of brittle fracture data. The differences between the present model and the B & M model is discussed. Finally the effect of loss of constraint on the models is noted.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 523-531 |
| Journal | Engineering Fracture Mechanics |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1989 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |