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In conventional fracture mechanics assessments, there is often an inadequate treatment of in-plane constraint effects on the apparent toughness of structural components, leading to significant conservatism. Modifications to the Master Curve method, to account for these effects, have previously been suggested. A study of these proposed modifications has identified that less conservative toughness estimates could be made from the analysis of fracture mechanics test specimens. An approach has been developed for allowing a comparison of a variation of fracture toughness values throughout a component, to a variation of the localised effective driving force. Cracked-body finite element analysis has been used to assess fracture test specimens with varying levels of in-plane constraint, to provide fracture mechanics data for use with the approach that has been developed.Copyright © 2011 by ASME |
