Influence of stress triaxiality on the fracture behaviour of Ti6Al4V alloy manufactured by electron beam melting

Tiago Sartor; Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva; Zhongwei Guan; Rafael Celeghini Santiago

doi:10.1590/1679-78257293

Influence of stress triaxiality on the fracture behaviour of Ti6Al4V alloy manufactured by electron beam melting

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Tiago Sartor Centro de Engenharia e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0304-0406
Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer (CTI), Campinas, SP, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2347-5215
Zhongwei Guan Advanced Materials Research Centre, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-0668
Rafael Celeghini Santiago Centro de Engenharia e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0798-719X

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-78257293

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the influence of stress triaxiality on the fracture behaviour of Ti6Al4V fabricated by Electron Beam Melting (EBM). Here, specimens with seven configurations were manufactured and tested to obtain a wide range of stress triaxialities. A combined approach using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and finite element (FE) modelling was used to evaluate the current stress triaxiality levels of the various specimens. The material fracture envelope was defined with the triaxiality in a range from -0.28 to 0.71, noting that the fracture was strongly dependent on the stress triaxiality. The characterisations were then carried out by testing an ad-hoc specimen to evaluate failure criteria at low and high stress triaxialities. It was shown that the FE model using the failure criterion based on triaxiality offers more accurate predictions of the material's failure response than that based on the effective plastic strain. The modelling approach based on anisotropic elasto-plasticity contributes to better predictions of the alloy's response. Thus, the failure models based on the stress triaxiality are highly recommended for producing accurate numerical predictions of the fracture response of Ti6Al4V-EBM.

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2022-11-01

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Vol. 19 No. 8 (2022)

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