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Notched tensile tests have been carried out on three common metals (pure iron, mild steel and aluminium alloy BS1474) over a wide range of strain-rates (10−3 to 104 s−1) and the strain-to-failure measured. The ductility of all three materials was found to be strongly dependent on the level of stress triaxiality in the specimen, this dependency being greatest for the ferrous materials and least for the aluminium alloy. No significant effect of strain-rate could be ascertained from the experimental results provided fracture remained fully ductile. However, for mild steel, a transition to a brittle fracture mode was observed for a given level of stress triaxiality as the strain-rate was increased. Numerical simulations of the experiments have been used to derive constants of a semi-empirical fracture model from the measured results. This model was found to give reasonable predictions of fracture over the range of conditions investigated.
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Mirza, M.S., Barton, D.C. & Church, P. The effect of stress triaxiality and strain-rate on the fracture characteristics of ductile metals. J Mater Sci 31, 453–461 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139164
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