Accession Number:

AD0773992

Title:

The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Tensile Fracture of alpha-Brass,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

DEFENCE STANDARDS LABS MARIBYRNONG (AUSTRALIA)

Personal Author(s):

• French,I. E.
• Weinrich,P. F.

Report Date:

1973-04-27

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

A detailed study has been made of the effects of hydrostatic pressures in the range 0.1-600 MPs on the tensile fracture strain of alpha-brass. Fracture strain has been found to increase linearly with pressure up to 350 MPa, to decrease between pressures of 350 and 375 MPa and to then increase to a constant value at pressures greater than 450MPa. The abrupt change from linearity of the fracture strain-pressure relationship at a pressure of 350 MPa was found to coincide with the suppression of large scale void development. Modified author abstract

Descriptors:

• *Brass
• *Fracture(Mechanics)
• *Tensile properties
• Stress strain relations
• Hydrostatic pressure
• Australia

Subject Categories:

• Metallurgy and Metallography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE