Specimen Thickness Effect on Cleavage Fracture Toughness of High and Intermediate Pressure Steam Turbine Rotor Materials
高中圧タービンロータ材の破壊じん性値の試験片厚依存性

Hiromi UEMURA, Akira KIUCHI, Takao INOUE, Atsushi WAKAMI
2004 Journal of the Society of Materials Science Japan  
Fracture toughness tests of Cr-Mo-V steels were conducted by the CT specimens of various thickness (B=b=a, B: specimen thickness, b: uncracked ligament, a: crack length), and 3-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analyses of them have been performed. Based on the maximum tensile stress criterion for the cleavage fracture, specimen thickness effect on fracture toughness has been investigated analytically. It is proposed from the analyses that the fracture toughness is equivalent to the
more » ... ne strain fracture toughness, KIc according to ASTM E399, provided that the following condition is met.
doi:10.2472/jsms.53.877 fatcat:hukkwnwcojb37a3su4qorck53y