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Types of Fracture

The document discusses three types of material fractures: ductile, cup-and-cone, and brittle. Ductile materials experience plastic deformation before fracturing while brittle materials do not. Cup-and-cone fracture involves initial necking followed by cavity formation and growth leading to shear fracture at an angle. Brittle fracture is fast without plastic deformation and often occurs along crystallographic planes.

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Types of Fracture

The document discusses three types of material fractures: ductile, cup-and-cone, and brittle. Ductile materials experience plastic deformation before fracturing while brittle materials do not. Cup-and-cone fracture involves initial necking followed by cavity formation and growth leading to shear fracture at an angle. Brittle fracture is fast without plastic deformation and often occurs along crystallographic planes.

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TYPES OF FRACTURE

DUCTILE FRACTURE
• Ductile materials typically exhibit substantial plastic deformation with high
energy absorption before fracture.

(a) Highly ductile fracture in


which the specimen necks down to a point.
(b) Moderately ductile fracture after some
necking. (c) Brittle fracture without any
plastic deformation.
STAGES IN THE CUP-AND-CONE FRACTURE

(a) Initial necking.


(b) Small cavity formation.
(c) Coalescence of cavities to form a crack.
(d) Crack propagation.
(e) Final shear fracture at a
angle relative to the tensile direction.
BRITTLE FRACTURE
• No appreciable plastic deformation.
• Crack propagation is very fast.
• Crack propagates nearly perpendicular to the
direction of the applied stress.
• Crack often propagates by cleavage -
breaking of atomic bonds along specific
crystallographic planes (cleavage planes).
• Brittle fracture in amorphous materials such
as ceramics glasses, yields relatively shiny and
smooth surface.
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