Fatigue crack propagation in steels

✍ Scribed by Zheng Xiulin; Manfred A. Hirt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 832 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7944
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(83)90070-x

✦ Synopsis

From previous investigations of the mechanisms of both fracture and fatigue crack propagation, the static fracture model proposed by Lal and Weiss may be thought as reasonable for describing fatigue crack propagation in metals at both low and interm~iate stress intensity factor ranges AK. Recent progress in fatigue crack propagation indicates that it is not only possible, but also necessary, to modify this static fracture model. Based on the modified static fracture model, the effective stress intensity factor range A&, which is defined as the difference between AK and the fatigue crack propagation threshold value A&, is taken as the governing parameter for fatigue crack propagation. Utilising the estimates of the theoretical strengths of metals employed in industry, a new expression for fatigue crack propagation, which may be predicted from the tensile properties of the metals, has been derived. The correlation between the fatigue crack propagation rate and the tensile properties is thus revealed. The new expression lits the test results of fatigue crack propagation of steels below lo-' mm~cycle and indicates well the effect of stress ratio on the fatigue crack propagation rate.