3-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analyses of the standard CT specimens of 4 kinds of thickness (0. 5, 1, 2 and 6CT) have been performed. Based on the toughness scaling model for the cleavage fracture proposed by Anderson and Dodds, Jr. , specimen thickness effects on the fracture toughness have been investigated in the light of both constraint effect and statistical one. It is proposed from the analyses that the minimum fracture toughness among three specimens is equivalent to the plane strain fracture toughness,
KIc according to ASTM E399-90, provided that the following condition is met.
B,
b ≥1. 0 (
Kc⁄σ
ys)
2where
B:specimen thickness,
b:uncracked ligament length,
Kc :critical stress intensity factor at onset of cleavage fracture and σ
ys:0. 2% offset yield stress. The thickness required from the criterion is 40% of that from the requirement of ASTM E399-90.
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