Affiliation:
1. Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt (MPA), University of Stuttgart , Stuttgart , Germany
2. Robert Bosch GmbH , Stuttgart , Germany
Abstract
Abstract
Micromechanisms of damage initiation and crack growth in high speed and cold work steels are investigated using scanning electron microscopy in situ experiments. The role of primary carbides in initiation and growth of cracks in tool steels is clarified. It is shown that initial microcracks in the steels are formed in primary carbides and then join together. A hierarchical finite element model of damage initiation, which included a macroscopic model of the deformation of the specimen under real experimental conditions and a mesomechanical model of damage in real microstructures of steels, was developed. Using the hierarchical model, the conditions of local failure in the steels have been obtained. In order to study the effect of carbide arrangement on fracture, numerical simulations of fracture in steels with different ideal carbide arrangements were carried out and compared with each other. It is found that the heterogeneous arrangements of primary carbides can lead to strong deviations of a crack from the mode I path and, therefore, to a significant increase of the fracture energy of the steels.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Metals and Alloys,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics
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