A Tapered Double-Cantilever-Beam Specimen Designed for Constant

A compact, constant stress intensity factor, side grooved, tapered double-cantilever-beam (T-DCB) specimen has been designed for measuring elevated temperature creep and fatigue crack growth rates. This specimen is much smaller than the standard DCB specimen generally used for studying corrosion fat...

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Published in:Journal of testing and evaluation 1997-11, Vol.25 (6), p.536-542
Main Authors: Beres, W, Koul, AK, Thamburaj, R
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:A compact, constant stress intensity factor, side grooved, tapered double-cantilever-beam (T-DCB) specimen has been designed for measuring elevated temperature creep and fatigue crack growth rates. This specimen is much smaller than the standard DCB specimen generally used for studying corrosion fatigue in airframe materials and it can be easily accommodated in standard furnaces generally used in elevated-temperature fracture mechanics testing. The specimen possesses a constant-K region of 30 mm. This constant-K crack length range was first established analytically through detailed two- and three-dimensional finite-element analyses and the finite-element calculations were further verified experimentally through quantitative fractographic analysis using the striation measurement technique.
ISSN:0090-3973
1945-7553
DOI:10.1520/JTE11493J