Simulations of Ductile Fracture in Pipeline Steels Under Quasi-Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions

Abstract

To circumvent numerous costly experimental investigations of full scale pipeline burst tests, fracture resistance parameters are determined from small scale lab tests for a given material. Developed over the past several decades, fracture parameters such as the Charpy V-notch energy, drop weight tear test (DWTT) absorbed energy, and most recently vii