Theoretical and experimental determination of magnetic stress intensity factors of a crack in a double cantilever beam specimen |
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Authors: | K YOSHIMURA Y SHINDO K HORIGUCHI F NARITA |
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Affiliation: | Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the results of an experimental and theoretical investigation of the magnetic fracture behaviour of double cantilever beam (DCB) specimens. DCB tests were conducted on ferritic stainless steel SUS430 in the bore of a superconducting magnet at room temperature. A simple experimental technique using strain gauges was used to determine the stress intensity factor. The experiments show the predicted increase in the stress intensity factor with increasing magnetic field. The theoretical analysis is based on a beam‐plate theory for magnetoelastic interactions in a soft ferromagnetic material. Numerical calculations are carried out, and the stress intensity factor is obtained for several values of magnetic field. A comparison of the stress intensity factor is made between theory and experiment, and the agreement is good for the magnetic field considered. |
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Keywords: | DCB tests fracture mechanics magnetoelastic analysis soft ferromagnetic materials strain gauge method stress intensity factor |
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