Velocity of propagation of cleavage cracks in Tungsten
Velocity of propagation of cleavage cracks in Tungsten
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00183824
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1966-06
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Derek Hull;P. Beardmore
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作者:
Derek Hull;P. Beardmore
Fracture surface studies have been made on pre-cracked tungsten single crystals pulled in [010] at temperatures between 200 and 3000K. The cracks were introduced by a spark technique and were atomically sharp. The appearance of the cleavage face varied with crack propagation stress and temperature. At low stresses and low temperatures a large proportion of the surface was ‘mirror’ smooth. Using oblique illumination the smooth surface was found to be covered with Wallner lines which started either at the edge of the crystal or at small cleavage steps. As the stress and temperature increased the area of smooth surface became progressively smaller and was restricted eventually to a narrow spike along [001]. The density of river lines also increased. A number of boundaries separating regions of different river line density were observed which spread out from the side of the fracture surfaces and were attributed to interaction between the stress field at the tip of the crack and a transverse elastic stress wave. The velocity of the cleavage cracks was estimated from the shape of the Wallner lines and from the shape of the river line boundaries. The limiting crack velocity approached 0.60 and 0.82 of the velocity of transverse elastic waves at 77° and 20°K respectively. At higher temperatures, in the presence of river lines, the velocity was between 0.20 and 0.55 of the transverse elastic wave velocity.