Recent developments in the control of propagating ductile fractures in gas pipelines have proposed using the Crack Tip Opening Angle (CTOA) as a measure of fracture resistance. This is attractive as it can be related directly to the geometry of the fracturing pipe and also can be implemented easily in finite element models of the propagating fracture process. Current methods of determining CTOA in linepipe have been based on the standard DWTT specimen. This geometry often does not allow a fully slant fracture to develop, and is loaded in bending rather than tension. A novel specimen design has been developed to measure CTOA under quasi-static conditions and applied to a X80 (Grade 555) pipeline steel. The experimental work involved development of the design to ensure crack path stability. CTOA was obtained directly by measurement from video images. The CTOA values dropped from an initially high value to a steady state value of about 8 degrees when fully slant crack growth was achieved. This required crack growth over a distance of about 5 to 12 times the test section thickness. The crack growth was modeled numerically using the Gurson ductile void growth material model. The finite element modeling was able to qualitatively reproduce the crack path instability observed in practice, and the fall of CTOA from the initial high value to a steady state condition. Although further work is required to improve the modeling, the work carried out to date has demonstrated that there is the potential to apply damage mechanics methods to predict the laboratory specimen response and then to model the structural response.


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    Title :

    Measurement and modelling of the crack tip opening angle in a pipeline steel


    Contributors:
    Andrews, R. (author) / Chterenlikht, A. (author) / Howard, I. (author) / Yates, J. (author)


    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 13 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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