Abstract
As a crucial parameter for determining a material's resistance to crack propagation, the convenient characterization of fracture toughness has attracted much attention. The scratch test is an alternate method for determining fracture toughness because it does not require notches or pre-existing cracks and only requires a minimal sample volume. In this study, the product of strength and elongation of materials is incorporated into a modified model based on the energy size effect law to calculate the fracture toughness of metallic materials using scratch tests. To validate the proposed model, scratch tests of DP800, 18CrNiMo7-6, 4140, and 4340 are performed to characterize their fracture toughness. The fracture toughness of these four metallic materials determined from scratch tests utilizing the proposed model, Akono's linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) model, Akono's microscopic energetic size effect law (MESEL) model, Hubler's MESEL model, and Liu's MESEL model are compared with the results from a compact tensile test or single edge notched beam test. Our results indicate that our modified approach is applicable to metallic materials. The proposed model could be reduced to the linear elastic fracture mechanics model. This study offers an efficient way of characterizing the fracture toughness of materials using the scratch method.
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