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Integranular Fracture: The Effect of Grain Boundary Orientation and Crack Growth Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Jeffrey W. Kysar
Jeffrey W. Kysar*
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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Abstract

Intergranular fracture is a common failure mechanism for which many issues remain to be resolved. In this study we investigate intergranular fracture behavior of specially oriented symmetric tilt bicrystals of aluminum as well as the fracture behavior of a crack along the interface of a copper-sapphire bicrystal. We begin by describing briefly the structure of a symmetric tilt grain boundary which leads to a discussion of the types of issues related to intergranular fracture that can be addressed with symmetric tilt grain boundaries. We then discuss in detail one of these issues, that of the directional dependence of fracture, and present results of finite element simulations of a copper-sapphire bicrystal specimen that exhibits the directional dependence of fracture. The simulations account for the single crystal nature of the constituents and use a cohesive-zone model, for which the grain boundary energy can be varied, to simulate the fracture process along the interface. The directional dependence of fracture emerges from the simulations for a broad range of parameters in the constitutive models of both the single crystal constituents as well as the interfacial cohesive-zone.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 586: Symposium M – Interfacial Engineering for Optimized Properties II , 1999 , 219
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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