Near-Threshold Fatigue Crack Growth at 63Sn37Pb Solder Joints

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-390
Author(s):  
Ki-Ju Kang ◽  
Seon-Ho Choi ◽  
Tae-Sung Bae

Fatigue tests were performed using single lap-joint specimens to obtain near-threshold fatigue crack growth data of solder joint under mode-II load. Attention was focused on the effect of high temperature aging and microstructures separately from the intermetallics. As a result, it was shown that the long cast time yielded the intermetallics and microstructures of the solder invariable regardless of aging condition. The granular micro-structure of the air-cooled specimens was shown to be inferior to the laminated micro-structure of the furnace-cooled specimens. Also, transition of fatigue crack behavior with ΔJ and the procedure of fatigue crack propagation from the pre-crack tip were discussed.

2007 ◽  
Vol 567-568 ◽  
pp. 409-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Shishime ◽  
Masanobu Kubota ◽  
Yoshiyuki Kondo

Hydrogen is considered to be a possible energy source in the coming future. However, it has been recognized that hydrogen has a detrimental effect on the fatigue strength of metal. The fatigue crack growth characteristic is an important property for the integrity assessment of hydrogen utilization machine. In this report, the effect of hydrogen on the fatigue crack propagation characteristic was studied using low alloy steel, carbon steels and A286 alloy. Especially in this study, very short pre-cracked specimen as small as 0.03 mm deep was used and the near threshold fatigue crack behavior was studied. As a result, materials whose Vickers hardness was higher than 300 were found to be susceptible to absorbed hydrogen.


1969 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. P. Pook

Some fatigue crack growth data have been obtained for age-hardened beryllium copper. The fatigue crack growth rate was found to be very dependent on the hardness and tensile mean stress. This dependence is believed to be associated with the intense residual stresses surrounding Preston-Guinier zones.


Author(s):  
Yan-Nan Du ◽  
Ming-Liang Zhu ◽  
Fu-Zhen Xuan ◽  
Shan-Tung Tu

A comparison of currently available codes for assessment of fatigue crack growth, including ASME (America Society of Mechanical Engineers) SEC. XI, FKM (Forchungskuratorium Maschinenbau) guideline, WES (Japan Welding Engineering Society) 2805, BS7910 and JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers), was carried out by paying attention to the suitability of application and the easiness to obtain the parameters, based on fatigue crack growth data of Cr-Ni-Mo-V steel welded joints. Results showed that fatigue crack growth curves provided by the FKM or WES were good choice when few inputs were at hand while the curves in the BS7910, JSME and ASME were recommended for precise estimation. It was indicated that the assessment of welded joints solely by fatigue crack growth behavior at base metal part and the assessment of fatigue crack growth for the aged condition by as-received one both resulted in non-conservativeness, albeit dependent on the range of stress ratios, R. A new bilinear form of fatigue crack growth model independent of R was developed based on transition point occurred in the near-threshold regime. This constituted the bilinear approach to fatigue assessment, and thus contributed to the optimization of fatigue assessment in the near-threshold regime.


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