The ways in which the cleavage-fracture stress and fracture toughness (KIC) vary with grain size in mild steel have been studied. The fracture toughness is related to the cleavage-fracture stress by a microstructural characteristic distance. A statistical argument has been advanced to explain the grain-size dependence of this distance.
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