511 Effect of specimen thickness on the plasticity induced crack closure and roughness induced crack closure during fatigue crack propagation

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010.47 (0) ◽  
pp. 175-176
Author(s):  
S. KOIKEDA ◽  
S. ISHIHARA ◽  
T. GOSHIMA
1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Tokaji ◽  
Z. Ando ◽  
K. Nagae

Characteristics of fatigue crack propagation have been investigated in a low carbon steel and a high tensile strength steel to evaluate the effect of sheet thickness. Crack propagation data are generated over a wide range of growth rates, from 10−8 to 10−3 mm/cycle, for load ratios of 0.05 and 0.70 at room temperature in laboratory air. Particular emphasis is placed on behavior at near-threshold growth rates. Near-threshold fatigue crack propagation behavior is found to show a marked sensitivity to sheet thickness, and near-threshold growth rates decrease and threshold values increase with increasing sheet thickness. Oxide and roughness-induced crack closure models are proposed as a mechanism for the effect of sheet thickness on near-threshold fatigue crack propagation. It is also shown that the requirement for specimen thickness recommended by ASTM, W/20≤B≤W/4, is not always valid for near-threshold fatigue crack propagation.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangcheng Hu ◽  
Zhiyi Liu ◽  
Qi Zhao ◽  
Song Bai ◽  
Fei Liu

P-texture effect on the fatigue crack propagation (FCP) resistance in an Al-Cu-Mg alloy containing a small amount of Ag, is investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron back scattering diffraction (EBSD). Results shows that the high intensity P-texture sheet has lower σ0.2/σb, lower FCP rate and higher damage tolerance than random texture sheet. Fracture analysis indicates that the striations spacing of high intensity P-texture sheet is much smaller than that of random texture sheet and it has a rougher fatigue fracture surface, which causes a significant roughness induced crack closure (RICC) effect. The calculation results manifest that high intensity P-texture sheet possesses a higher crack closure level reaching 0.73 as compared to random texture sheet (only 0.25). The statistical analysis results reveal the P-grains have large twist angle of 105–170° and tilt angle of 5–60° with neighboring grains, which is similar to Goss-grains. This is the fundamental reason that P-texture sheet has the same FCP resistance and induces fatigue crack deflection as Goss-texture sheet. Additionally, the most {111} slipping planes of P-grains are distributed in the range of 30–50° deviating from transverse direction of the sheet. This results in more {111} slipping planes to participate in cyclic plastic deformation, which is beneficial to reduce fatigue damage accumulation and improve the damage tolerance of Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy.


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