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Project Number 37
Date of Summary June 30, 1985
Subject Structural Materials for Arctic Operations
Performing Activity National Bureau of Standards, Center for Materials Sciences
Principal Investigator Dr. Harry McHenry
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The objective was to study the potentially hazardous effects of Arctic (cold weather) operations on the integrity of steel weldments for Arctic structures. Fracture toughness of steel weldments are being investigated to determine requirements for verifying structural integrity.
Progress Complete. Fracture toughness tests were completed on five different geometrical crack configurations. Tests were conducted to determine the effects of different crack depths to specimen width ratios and to different crack depths to thickness ratios. Temperatures were varied from -120oC to room temperature.
Reports
AA (88 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Anderson, T. L., McHenry, H. I., Fracture Toughness of Steel Weldments for Arctic Structures, Interim Progress Report, National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado, December 1982.
AB (40 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Anderson, T. L., McHenry, H. I., Dawes, M.G., Elastic-Plastic Fracture Toughness of Tests with Single-Edge Notched Bend Specimens, Proceedings of the Symposium on User's Experience with Elastic-Plastic Fracture Toughness Test Methods, National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado, 1983.
AC (212 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Anderson, T. L., The Effect of Crack-Tip Region Constraints on Fracture in the Ductile-To-Brittle Transition Region, NBSIR 84- 3001, National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado, May 1984.
AD (68 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Zia-Ebrahimi, F., Ductile-To-Brittle Transition in Steel Weldments for Arctic Structures, NBSIR 85-3020, National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado, April 1985.
 

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