DUCTILE AND BRITTLE

FRACTURE

By: SAN LUIS, John Kris M.

 Ductile Fracture
 Ductile Fracture involves large plastic
deformation before separation, and can be
detected beforehand.
Stages of Cup-and-Cone
Fracture
 Fractographic Studies
 Failure analysis for studying the fracture
surface of materials

 Most preferred type is scanning using electron

microscope
Scanning Electron Fractograph
 Brittle Fracture
 Brittle Fracture involves fracture without any
appreciable plastic deformation
 Catastrophic and happen with little to no
warning
 Transgranular Fracture
 successive and repeated breaking of atomic
bonds along specific crystallographic planes

 Also called “transcrystalline”

Transgranular Fracture
 Intergranular Fracture
 crack propagation along the grain boundaries

 results subsequent to the occurrence of

processes that weaken or embrittle grain
boundary regions
Intergranular Fracture
 Ductile VS Brittle
Stress-Strain Graph

High energy fracture Low energy fracture

Ductile to Brittle Transition