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Transgranular and intergranular failure competition as a manifestation of steel degradation
Dlouhý, Ivo ; Hadraba, Hynek ; Strnadel, B.
Main purpose of the work was to quantify causes and characteristics that control the intergranular fracture initiation and occurrence of this fracture micromechanism in competition with cleavage one. A CrNi steel of commercial quality and the same steel with increased content of impurity elements, Sn and Sb, was used. Step cooling treatment was applied in order to induce intergranular embrittlement and brittle fracture initiation in both steel melts. For fracture toughness determination standard bend specimen and pre-cracked Charpy type specimens both tested in three point bending were applied. Relation of cleavage fracture stress and critical stress for intergranular failure has been followed showing capability of this parameter for quantification of the transgranular/intergranular fracture. In order to characterise the quantitative morphological differences in fracture surfaces fractal analysis was applied.

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