There are four distinct types of fracture in superplastic materials: failure by quasistable plastic flow, failure by necking, cavitation failure, and quasibrittle failure. The characteristics of these four types are described with reference to experimental examples. Maximum elongation occurs in a superplastic material when it pulls out to a fine wire in quasi stable flow. It is demonstrated that there are two basic requirements for this type of flow: (a) a suppression of localized (but not diffuse) necking, and (b) a suppression of significant cavity interlinkage (but not necessarily of cavity nucleation and growth).
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