Fracture Strains, Damage Mechanisms and Anisotropy in a Magnesium Alloy Across a Range of Stress Triaxialities
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We report on the effect of stress-state triaxiality on damage accumulation leading to fracture at ambient temperature in magnesium alloy AZ31. We find that the strain to failure is weakly sensitive to triaxiality for the conditions investigated, at variance with the behavior of most alloy systems. Using plastic anisotropy measurements, post-mortem fractography and transverse cross-sectioning of specimens at incipient cracking, we discuss the contributions of plastic anisotropy, shear failure and coalescence-controlled cracking to limiting the net effect of stress triaxiality. 2013 Society for Experimental Mechanics.