On the role of strain and stress state in ductile failure

Abstract U sing plane strain and axisymmetric notched tensile specimens in combination with finite deformation stress analysis, the strain to initiate failure in a range of structural steels is shown to be co-related by the state of stress for both axisymmetric and plane states of strain. The implications of this result for ductile failure terminated by flow localisation is discussed in the light of the theoretical work on localised flow.

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