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Crack Arrest Toughness Estimation for High Strength Steels from Sub-Sized Instrumented
Charpy-V Tests
Kim Wallin, Päivi Karjalainen-Roikonen Pasi Suikkanen
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland SSAB Europe Oy
Espoo, Finland Raahe, Finland

ABSTRACT T Temperature
T50% Transition temperature in the middle of transition region
Crack arrest toughness KIa is considered to represent the minimum TCV28J 28 J Charpy-V transition temperature
fracture toughness of a material. The crack arrest toughness standard TCV35J/cm2 35 J/cm2 Charpy-V transition temperature
ASTM E1221 defines a crack arrest toughness reference temperature, TFa4kN 4 kN crack arrest load transition temperature
T KIa. TKIa is the temperature corresponding to a median crack arrest TFa0.4kN/mmB Proportional TFa4kN transition temperature
toughness value of 100 MPaÁm. Previously, the TKIa temperature has TKIa Temperature corresponding to a median crack arrest
been successfully correlated to the 4 kN crack arrest load transition toughness value of 100 MPa­m

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temperature (TFa4kN) from the instrumented Charpy-V impact test for US Upper shelf

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low to high strength steels. In this work, the correlation is expanded to Standard deviation
cover also sub-sized specimens and ultra high strength steels. Yield strength

INTRODUCTION
KEY WORDS: Crack arrest; Toughness; Instrumented impact test;
Charpy-V; Arrest load. Crack arrest toughness usually indicates the material toughness
available to arrest a running brittle crack. The estimation of crack arrest
NOMENCLATURE toughness is made complicated by the fact that the crack driving force
for a dynamically running crack is not necessarily equivalent to the
static crack driving force for the same crack size. The dynamic stress
A Material constant intensity factor for a running crack is usually denoted KID and the value
B Specimen thickness of KID at crack arrest is called K IA. This dynamic crack arrest toughness
C(T) Compact Tension is considered to represent a true material parameter. Unfortunately the
CVN Charpy-V notch dynamic crack driving force is not as simple to estimate in a test
DCB Double Cantilever Beam specimen. Therefore, the crack arrest toughness is commonly based on
f TKIa Distribution function for TKIa a static analysis and is then identified as KIa. For many specimen
Fa Crack arrest force geometries KIa and KIA are sufficiently close so that KIa can be used to
F gy General yielding force estimate KIA. Usually KIa is smaller than KIA, thus providing a
Fm Maximum force conservative estimate of crack arrest toughness. However, there are
Fu Clevage initiation force geometries where this is not the case, and for those a dynamic analysis
MC Master Curve is required. One such geometry is the single edge cracked tension
KI Stress intensity factor specimen (Link, 2006), where the static analysis appears to
KIa Crack arrest toughness overestimate the dynamic value. The standard definition of crack arrest
拍Ia
計 Median crack arrest toughness toughness relies on the static estimate KIa (ASTM E1221).
KIa-5% Total 5 % lower bound KIa estimate
KIA Dynamic stress intensity factor at crack arrest Crack arrest toughness KIa is considered to represent the minimum
KID Dynamic stress intensity factor for a running crack fracture toughness of a material. If the fracture mechanical driving
N Sample size force KI is less than KIa, fracture is not possible. It thus represents a true
P KIa Cumulative distribution for KIa lower bound fracture toughness. Interestingly, the crack arrest
P tot Total cumulative probability toughness for structural steels follows a similar temperature

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