The study of resistance to fracture of the materials is very important for developing new projects, making materials specifications and also for evaluating materials behaviour under presence of a crack in a component. There are uncountables standards which apply normalized specimens due to determine this mechanical property, however some components in service doesn t act under same conditions as the specimen chosen, for instance ductile materials applied in components with thin thickness and high intern pressure. In this dissertation was studied two diferente of materials with distinct yield limits fabricated according to SEN(T) geometry with clamped fixing, which one is not acceptable by ASTM. Thus, a research has been carried out using this geomerty with a variation of 0,2 to 0,8 of the relation between the idealized initially for the crack and the width of the proof body ratio and side-grooves with 20 percent reducted were made in the specimens with higher ductility. After that, the procedure for doing fatigue pre-crack was initialized, followed by fracture toughness test. This last one was developed adopting the unloading compliance technique, which one allows that more than one aplications of force and displacement can be realized in only one specimen then the value of J and crack extension can be calculated and the R-curve will be plotted. The results obtained showed even with a a/W ratio diferente of those indicated by standards, is possible to constructo a qualified R-curve for a/W=0,2. In additon to the results, there is a limitation in applying a SEN(T) geometry in materials that don t present extensive ductility.