Fatigue crack propagation under varied mean stress conditions

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 2033-2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Yeske ◽  
J. Weertman
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Fatigue Crack Propagation ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Mean Stress

Fatigue Crack Propagation in Clad RR58 Sheet to DTD 5070A: Analysis and Correlation of Test Results

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (700) ◽  
pp. 335-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Rooke ◽  
N. J. F. Gunn ◽  
J. T. Ballett ◽  
F. J. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Crack ◽  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Aluminium Alloy ◽  
Fatigue Crack Propagation ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Specimen Geometry ◽  
Aircraft Industry ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Obvious Advantage

In recent years there has been an increasing need for data on the rates of fatigue crack propagation in alloys of interest to the aircraft industry. In general alloys in which cracks grow slowly, under given stress conditions, have an obvious advantage over those in which cracks grow faster; there is more time to detect a crack before failure. It is possible that, in the future, quantitative crack propagation data may be used to give better estimates of the safe life of a structure. There is, however, a need to rationalise the presentation of such data and to study the effect of such parameters as specimen geometry and stress level. Some experiments to investigate the effect of varying some of these parameters in one clad aluminium alloy, DTD 5070A are described. It is a summary of work contained in two RAE Technical Reports.

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