Crack initiation in the brittle fracture of ferritic steels
Fracture in many steels is thought to initiate from fractured carbides. It is often supposed that in pre-cracked specimens, many carbides fracture in the plastic zone of the pre-crack, and that eventually fracture propagates from one of these to cause fracture of the whole specimen. Sources of fract...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2006
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