Slow Crack Growth of a Pyroceram Glass Ceramic Under Static Fatigue Loading—Commonality of Slow Crack Growth in Advanced Ceramics

2014 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung R. Choi ◽  
D. Calvin Faucett ◽  
Brenna Skelley
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Glass Ceramic ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Static Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Data ◽  
Prediction Approach ◽  
Applied Stresses ◽  
Dynamic Fatigue

An extensive experimental work for Pyroceram™ 9606 glass–ceramic was conducted to determine static fatigue at ambient temperature in distilled water. This work was an extension and companion of the previous work conducted in dynamic fatigue. Four different applied stresses ranging from 120 to 170 MPa was incorporated with a total of 20–23 test specimens used at each of four applied stresses. The slow crack growth (SCG) parameters n and D were found to be n = 19 and D = 45 with a coefficient of correlation of rcoef = 0.9653. The Weibull modulus of time to failure was in a range of msf = 1.6–1.9 with an average of msf = 1.7 ± 0.2. A life prediction using the previously determined dynamic fatigue data was in excellent agreement with the static fatigue data. The life prediction approach was also applied to advanced monolithic ceramics and ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) based on their dynamic and static fatigue data determined at elevated temperatures. All of these results indicated that a SCG mechanism governed by a power-law crack growth formulation was operative, a commonality of SCG in these materials systems.

Slow Crack Growth of a Pyroceram Glass Ceramic Under Static Fatigue Loading: Commonality of Slow Crack Growth in Advanced Ceramics

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung R. Choi ◽  
D. Calvin Faucett ◽  
Brenna Skelley
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Glass Ceramic ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Static Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Data ◽  
Prediction Approach ◽  
Applied Stresses ◽  
Dynamic Fatigue

An extensive experimental work for Pyroceram™ 9606 glass-ceramic was conducted to determine static fatigue at ambient temperature in distilled water. This work was an extension and companion of the previous work conducted in dynamic fatigue. Four different applied stresses ranging from 120 to 170 MPa was incorporated with a total of 20–23 test specimens used at each of four applied stresses. The slow crack growth parameters n and D were found to be n = 19 and D = 45 with a coefficient of correlation of rcoef = 0.9653. The Weibull modulus of time to failure was in a range of msf = 1.6 to 1.9 with an average of msf = 1.7±0.2. A life prediction using the previously-determined dynamic fatigue data was in excellent agreement with the static fatigue data. The life prediction approach was also applied to advanced monolithic ceramics and ceramic matrix composites based on their dynamic and static fatigue data determined at elevated temperatures. All of these results indicated that a SCG mechanism governed by a power-law crack-growth formulation was operative, a commonality of slow crack growth in these materials systems.

Evaluation of Tensile Static, Dynamic, and Cyclic Fatigue Behavior for A Hiped Silicon Nitride at Elevated Temperatures

1992 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Kuang Jack Lin ◽  
Michael G. Jenkins ◽  
Matitison K. Ferber
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Nitride ◽  
Cyclic Loading ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Fatigue Behavior ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Cyclic Fatigue ◽  
Creep Rupture ◽  
Static Fatigue ◽  
Dynamic Fatigue

ABSTRACTTensile fatigue behavior of a hot-isostatically-pressed (HIPed) silicon nitride was investigated over ranges of constant stresses, constant stress rates, and cyclic loading at 1150-1370°C. At 1150°C, static and dynamic fatigue failures were governed by a slow crack growth mechanism. Creep rupture was the dominant failure mechanism in static fatigue at 1260 and 1370°C. A transition of failure mechanism from slow crack growth to creep rupture appeared at stress rates ≤10−2 MPa/s for dynamic fatigue at 1260 and 1370°C. At 1 150-1370°C, cyclic loading appeared to be less damaging than static loading as cyclic fatigue specimens displayed greater failure times than static fatigue specimens under the same maximum stresses.

Power Law Versus Exponential Form of Slow Crack Growth of Advanced Structural Ceramics: Dynamic Fatigue

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung R. Choi ◽  
John P. Gyekenyesi
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Crack Velocity ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Stress Rate ◽  
Structural Ceramics ◽  
Rate Relation ◽  
Rate Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Fatigue

The life prediction analysis based on an exponential crack velocity formulation was examined using a variety of experimental data on glass and advanced structural ceramics in constant stress-rate (“dynamic fatigue”) and preload testing at ambient and elevated temperatures. The data fit to the strength versus ln (stress rate) relation was to found be very reasonable for most of the materials. It was also found that preloading technique was equally applicable for the case of slow crack growth (SCG) parameter n>30. The major limitation in the exponential crack velocity formulation, however, was that an inert strength of a material must be known priori to evaluate the important SCG parameter n, a significant drawback as compared to the conventional power-law crack velocity formulation.

Slow Crack Growth in Glasses and Ceramics Under Residual and Applied Stresses

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Erdogan
Keyword(s):  
Stress Intensity Factor ◽  
Stress Intensity ◽  
Intensity Factor ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Crack Arrest ◽  
Growing Crack ◽  
Applied Stresses

The problem of slow crack growth under residual stresses and externally applied loads in plates is considered. Even though the technique developed to treat the problem is quite general, in the solution given it is assumed that the plate contains a surface crack and the residual stresses are compressive near and at the surfaces and tensile in the interior. The crack would start growing subcritically when the stress intensity factor exceeds a threshold value. Initially the crack faces near the plate surface would remain closed. A crack-contact problem would, therefore, have to be solved to calculate the stress intensity factor. Depending on the relative magnitudes of the residual and applied stresses and the threshold and critical stress intensity factors, the subcritically growing crack would either be arrested or become unstable. The problem is solved and examples showing the time to crack arrest or failure are discussed.

scholarly journals Statistical-Probabilistic Approach to the Lifetime and Strength Degradation of E-Glass Filaments and Bundles under Constant Tensile Loading in Water

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Jacques Lamon ◽  
Mohamed R’Mili
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Probabilistic Approach ◽  
Tensile Tests ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Strength Degradation ◽  
Tensile Behaviour ◽  
Static Fatigue ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Pertinent Data

The present paper discusses the statistical features of static fatigue for E-glass multifilament tows in water. In such an aggressive environment, the glass fibres are sensitive to slow crack propagation from micron-sized flaws. Rupture and interrupted static fatigue tests under constant deformation in water, as well as tensile tests in inert environments on tows after fatigue were carried out on E-glass fibre tows that comprised around 2000 single filaments. The slow crack growth constants and the fast fracture statistical parameters for filaments were extracted from the outcome of experiments on tows, i.e., the load relaxation curves during fatigue and stress-strain curves during the tensile tests. These parameters provide a pertinent data base for the prediction of several characteristics in various conditions of fatigue for filaments and tows including statistical distributions of lifetimes and residual strengths, strength degradation during fatigue, size effects on lifetime and tow residual behaviour. Equations for calculation of filament lifetime and residual strength, and tow tensile behaviour were based on the model of slow crack growth and Weibull statistical distribution. Calculations using strength-probability-time relations provided insight into static fatigue behaviour of tows in water. Validity of the approach was assessed by the comparison of experimental and predicted tow residual behaviours.

Slow crack growth in ceramic materials at elevated temperatures

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Evans ◽  
L. R. Russell ◽  
D. W. Richerson
Keyword(s):  
Crack Growth ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Slow Crack Growth ◽  
Ceramic Materials
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