SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1994
STP13734S

Surface Crack Growth in Inconel 718 During Large Unload-Reload Cycles

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Thin Inconel 718 plates with deep (a/t = 0.6 to 0.9) semicircular surface flaws were subjected to different numbers of large load-unload-reload cycles with various minimum and maximum loads and crack mouth displacements. Elastic compliance measurements and marker bands were used to estimate crack lengths at each cycle of interest. Crack growth was analyzed from the perspective of low-cycle fatigue crack propagation using ΔJeff as the correlating parameter. Calculations of ΔJeff were based on a modified version of the reference stress estimate that takes crack closure into account. Results from these tests were correlated consistently with both resistance curve data and baseline small-scale yielding fatigue crack growth data. The development of the crack shape during both single-cycle ductile tearing and multiple-cycle fatigue crack growth was characterized.

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McClung, RC
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
Hudak, SJ
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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Developed by Committee: E08
Pages: 706–721
DOI: 10.1520/STP13734S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5270-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1990-1