ISSN: 1945-7553
CODEN: JTEVAB
Page Count: 12

Results of an ASTM Cooperative Test Program on the J_Ic Determination of HY130 Steel

Clarke, GA
Senior engineer, advisory engineer, and fellow engineer, Structural Behavior of Materials Department, Westinghouse Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Landes, JD
Senior engineer, advisory engineer, and fellow engineer, Structural Behavior of Materials Department, Westinghouse Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Begley, JA
Senior engineer, advisory engineer, and fellow engineer, Structural Behavior of Materials Department, Westinghouse Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Abstract

A cooperative test program to evaluate testing procedures for the determination of J_Ic was organized under the auspices of ASTM. The material tested in this program was HY130 steel. A total of 21 laboratories in five different countries participated in this testing program. Although considerable scatter was found in the J_Ic results from various laboratories much of the scatter was attributed to material properties variations.

From the results of this program a recommended testing procedure was developed by a working group formed by the ASTM Task Group on Elastic-Plastic Fracture, E24.01.09. The data from the cooperative test program is presented along with the reasoning for developing the recommended J_Ic test procedure.

Keywords:
materials tests, fracture toughness, ultrasonic tests

Paper ID: JTE10614J
DOI: 10.1520/JTE10614J
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