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Ductile fracture of metals under triaxial states of stress

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  • Silver interlayers between maraging steel base metal were examined to evaluate mechanisms leading to ductile failure in constrained thin metals. The constraint of the maraging steel base metal during uniaxial testing of constrained thin silver results in a large hydrostatic tension component, a small von Mises effective stress, and negligible far-field plasticity. The failure theory proposed by Rice and Tracey predicts uniform cavity wall expansion as a result of high triaxiality, in which an increase in plastic strain drives an increase in cavity size. The Rice and Tracey theory predicts significantly greater plastic strain than is experimentally observed. The theory developed by Huang, Hutchinson, and Tvergaard states that a cavitation limit exists at which a cavity continues to grow without an increase in elastic or plastic strain. This occurs when the energy stored in the elastic region is sufficient to drive continued cavity expansion. Inherent in both theories is the assumption of a single cavity in an infinite solid, which implies non-interacting cavities. Modifications have been developed to allow for multiple cavities, but assume pre-existing cavities. By examining silver interlayers previously loaded to various times at a fraction of the tensile strength where time-dependent failure is observed, it was found that some cavities were initially present in the as-bonded samples. Some of the initial cavities were spaced close enough to suggest localized interacting stress fields. This indicates that a failure model should be able to accommodate cavity spacing. The results suggest that cavities are continuously nucleating (from at least the 20 nanometers detectability limit) and grow, sometimes to over 500 nm in diameter. This thesis evaluates the number, size, shape, and spacing of cavities in the silver interlayers and uses these results to evaluate ductile failure theories for metals subjected to high triaxial states of stress such as in constrained interlayers.
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