ISSN: 1945-7553
CODEN: JTEVAB
Page Count: 6

Impact Three-Point Bend Testing for Notched and Precracked Specimens

Server, WL
Vice-presidentMember of ASTM, Fracture Control Corporation, Goleta, Calif.

Abstract

Testing and data analysis procedures developed from a recently completed fracture toughness testing program on ferritic nuclear pressure vessel steels are presented. These procedures describe the measurement of dynamic fracture toughness at stress intensification rates near 10⁵ MPa√m/s using instrumented impact testing of three-point bend specimens. These procedures have been submitted to several ASTM task groups, and it is hoped that these guidelines will be incorporated into current and future interlaboratory activities eventually leading to a standard method for testing.

Keywords:
crack propagation, fractures (materials), impact tests, procedures, compliance, J integral, inertia loads, frequency response

Paper ID: JTE10915J
DOI: 10.1520/JTE10915J
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