Journal Published Online: 01 May 1992
Volume 20, Issue 3

Fatigue Threshold Regime of a Low Alloy Ferritic Steel under Closure-Free Testing Conditions: Part II—Hysteresis in Near-Threshold Fatigue Crack Propagation: An Experimental Assessment

CODEN: JTEVAB

Abstract

Near-threshold fatigue crack propagation behavior of a high strength steel was investigated in laboratory air under closurefrec testing conditions at R = 0.7 (= Rcff) and at two different K-gradients. Depending on the criterion assumed, the threshold value differed; the criterion of non-propagation gave a lower threshold value than that assumed by the propagation criterion. Nevertheless. the subsequent propagation following a load increase was discontinuous in both cases, and da/dN versus ΔK curves obtained on the some specimen during the K-decreasing and the K-increasing test were not necessarily identical in the threshold regime. This behavior, hysteresis, is analyzed mainly from the experimental viewpoint, and it is shown that hysteresis is not an artifact.

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Vaidya, WV
Institut für Werkstofforschung, GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH, Geesthacht, Federal Republic of Germany
Pages: 12
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Stock #: JTE11710J
ISSN: 0090-3973
DOI: 10.1520/JTE11710J