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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA
SKUDAI, JOHOR
TUTORIAL 1
(METALS FRACTURE)
1. a) Give the main differences of ductile and brittle fracture characteristics.
b) Explain the ductile fracture mechanism and give reasons of why ductile metal still can
fail by brittle mechanism.
c) What are the advantages of fracture mechanics as compare to other conventional
techniques such as impact test in the component design process?
2. a) What is stress concentration?
b) Show the stress concentration factor conditions of sharp and rounded crack tips using
the Inglis approach.
3. a) Explain the Griffith theory in determining the fracture characteristics and give the
assumptions made.
b) If the surface energy of aluminium oxide is 0.90 J/m2 and the elastic modulus is 393
GPa, compute the critical required for the propagation of an internal crack length 0.40
mm.
c) An MgO component must not fail when a tensile stress of 13.5 MPa is applied.
Determine the maximum allowable surface crack length if the surface energy of MgO is
1.0 J/m2 and the modulus is 225 GPa.
4. a) For each of the following materials, compute the minimum component thickness for
which the plain strain is valid.
i) Aluminium 7075‐T651 (σy = 495 MPa, KIC = 24 MPa.m1/2)
ii) Titanium Alloy (Ti‐6Al‐4V) (σy = 910 MPa, KIC = 55 MPa.m1/2)
b) A specimen of 4340 steel alloy with the plane strain fracture toughness of 54.8 MPa.m1/2
is exposed to stress of 1030 MPa. Will this specimen experience fracture if it is known
that the largest surface crack is 0.5 mm long? (Y = 1)
c) Suppose that a wing component on an aircraft is fabricated from an aluminium alloy
that has a plane strain fracture toughness of 26 MPa.m1/2. It has been determined that
the fracture results at a stress of 112 MPa when the maximum internal crack length is
8.6 mm. For this same component and alloy, determine the stress level at which
fracture will occur for a critical internal crack length of 6 mm.