DBTT, Fatigue and Creep

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Impact testing, fatigue,

and creep
May 24th, 2022
Labs: Safety and Personal Protective Equipment
Before you step foot in the lab, please make sure you
are wearing:

● Buttoned lab coat


● Safety glasses
● Long pants (no ankles or socks on display)
● Closed toed, closed top shoes
● Long hair tied back

Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Impact testing
Temperature dependence

Callister and Rethswitch, 10th ed.


Liberty Ships
Composition dependence
DBTT: The Titanic
DBTT: The Titanic
A brief summary

Fracture toughness: Impact toughness: Ability


Tensile toughness:
Resistance to crack to deform without
Area under stress-strain
propagation breaking under rapid
curve
loading
Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.
Cyclic loading and fatigue
Aloha Airlines, Flight 243

NTSB via aviation-safety.net


Fatigue testing

Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.


Example: https://youtu.be/hASl6d3z3BM
Callister, 6th ed.
Do cracks grow in compression?
Callister, 6th ed.
S-N Curves and Fatigue Limits

BCC metals: fatigue limit FCC metals: no fatigue limit

Callister, 6th ed.


Fracture surfaces

Beach marks Striations: Do not try to count them!


Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.
Time for a cat nap?
On to (relatively) higher temperatures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvgnBBuI-0
What do we call these?
Creep happens:
● Above 0.33-0.4 of the melting point, in
Kelvin
● Below the yield strength of the material
● Failure is often at low strains

Engineering Materials 1 (Fourth Edition): An Introduction to Properties, Applications and Design.


Ashby, M.F. and Jones, D.R.H.
Stages of creep

Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.


Stages of creep

● Instantaneous
deformation and primary
creep
● Secondary
● Tertiary

Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.


Secondary creep
Effect of temperature:

Effect of applied stress:

Callister and Rethwisch, 10th ed.


How do we reduce the risk of creep?

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-single-crystal
Steady state creep rates
Combining temperature and stress
What would your slope be?

What would your y-intercept be?


Does glass creep?
Have you ever heard that old windows are thicker
at the bottom than at the top, because glass flows
with time? This is often blamed on creep.

Using what you have learned today:

● Form a group of 3-4 people.


● Discuss if you think glass creeps.
● In 4-5 minutes, we’ll have a short discussion as
a class.
Modern glass: https://youtu.be/PSurxsGQL90?t=87
Old glass: https://youtu.be/rkoEqFHhELA?t=143

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