Abstract:Method of Miniaturized Disk Bend Test (MDBT) originally designed for the tests of irradiated materials is a convenient technique for monitoring the degradation of mechanical properties of structural materials operating in extreme conditions. A small size of specimens (disks with 3 mm in diameter and 0.1-0.3 mm in thickness) as well as possibility to use the standard equipments for tension and/or pressure tests allow minimizing the financial charge for application of this method in practice and enable to keep up in the real time with (watch on) the changes of materials mechanical properties induced by the effect of unfavorable environment. Wide application of MDBT or other methods for miniaturized specimen tests does possible to inspect on the fly the changes of strength and ductility of the materials, and, of the expense of it, to prevent an alert conditions caused by the materials degradation, for instance, catastrophic embrittlement.In the paper, methodical aspects of MDBT technique application for estimation of structural materials mechanical properties have been considered. By the example of own results and literature data, the possibilities of MDBT method are demonstrated as well as the correlation of obtained from this technique parameters with the standard mechanical properties such as strength, yield stress and ductility of metals.
