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A Model of Cleavage Fracture along Metal/Ceramic Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

D. M. Lipkin ,
G. E. Beltz  and
D. R. Clarke
D. M. Lipkin
Affiliation:
Materials Department
G. E. Beltz
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
D. R. Clarke
Affiliation:
Materials Department
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Abstract

We propose a mechanism by which cleavage-type crack growth along a metal/ceramic interface could proceed concomitantly with significant plastic dissipation in the metal. The large strain gradients in the immediate vicinity of the crack tip are postulated to lead to extensive local hardening. A simple, continuum-based model is used to identify a characteristic length scale ahead of the crack tip, within which the material can not plastically deform subject to the cracktip stress field. An analytical expression is derived for the crack-tip shielding afforded by the plastic zone. The coupling between the plastic dissipation and the ideal work of fracture is found to be synergistic, with slight variations in Griffith energy affecting order-of-magnitude changes in toughness. These results suggest a possible mechanism for a number of interfacial fracture phenomena observed in thick- and thin-film metal/ceramic systems, including segregation-induced interfacial embrittlement, the ductile-to-brittle transition, and stress corrosion cracking.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 436: Symposium CC – Thin Films Stresses and Mechanical Properties VI , 1996 , 91
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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