Relationship of fracture behavior and stress triaxiality of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

It is significant to study the relationship between the stress triaxiality and the fracture behavior for analyzing the failure process of additive manufactured titanium alloy. This paper combined the tensile test of smooth round bar specimens and notched round bar specimens with the numerical simulation to obtain the stress triaxiality distribution and fracture strain in order to study fracture behavior of additive manufactured titanium under different stress triaxiality. Fracture analysis was proceeded by using scanning electronic microscope to analyze the correlation between the stress triaxiality and the fracture behavior. Results show that the fracture strain decreases while the stress triaxiality increases and the location of the crack initiation moves from the center to the edge of the minimum cross-section while the radius of the notch decrease.