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  2. Material failure theory - Wikipedia

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    The failure of a material is usually classified into brittle failure or ductile failure . Depending on the conditions (such as temperature, state of stress, loading rate) most materials can fail in a brittle or ductile manner or both. However, for most practical situations, a material may be classified as either brittle or ductile.

  3. Ductility - Wikipedia

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    However, not all metals experience ductile failure as some can be characterized with brittle failure like cast iron. Polymers generally can be viewed as ductile materials as they typically allow for plastic deformation. [5] Inorganic materials, including a wide variety of ceramics and semiconductors, are generally characterized by their ...

  4. Stress triaxiality - Wikipedia

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    Ductile crack propagation is also influenced by stress triaxiality, with lower values producing steeper crack resistance curves. [7] Several failure models such as the Johnson-Cook (J-C) fracture criterion (often used for high strain rate behavior), [ 8 ] Rice-Tracey model , and J-Q large scale yielding model incorporate stress triaxiality.

  5. Christensen failure criterion - Wikipedia

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    The Christensen failure criterion is a material failure theory for isotropic materials that attempts to span the range from ductile to brittle materials. [1] It has a two-property form calibrated by the uniaxial tensile and compressive strengths T ( σ T ) {\displaystyle \left(\sigma _{T}\right)} and C ( σ C ) {\displaystyle \left(\sigma _{C ...

  6. Fracture - Wikipedia

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    Ductile materials have a fracture strength lower than the ultimate tensile strength (UTS), whereas in brittle materials the fracture strength is equivalent to the UTS. [2] If a ductile material reaches its ultimate tensile strength in a load-controlled situation, [ Note 1 ] it will continue to deform, with no additional load application, until ...

  7. Ultimate failure - Wikipedia

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    In most technical applications, pieces are rarely allowed to reach their ultimate failure or breakage point, instead for safety factors they are removed at the first signs of significant wear. There are two different types of fracture: brittle and ductile. Each of these types of failure occur based on the material's ductility. Brittle failure ...

  8. Brittleness - Wikipedia

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    The least brittle structural ceramics are silicon carbide (mainly by virtue of its high strength) and transformation-toughened zirconia. A different philosophy is used in composite materials, where brittle glass fibers, for example, are embedded in a ductile matrix such as polyester resin. When strained, cracks are formed at the glass–matrix ...

  9. Strength of materials - Wikipedia

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    Tensile strength or ultimate tensile strength is a limit state of tensile stress that leads to tensile failure in the manner of ductile failure (yield as the first stage of that failure, some hardening in the second stage and breakage after a possible "neck" formation) or brittle failure (sudden breaking in two or more pieces at a low-stress ...