Dislocation pile-up model of fatigue thresholds for 2024- and 7075-alike aluminium alloys

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-179

  Li, Xu Dong ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DEFECTS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FORECASTING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESSES;

DISLOCATION PILE-UP MODEL; DISLOCATIONS PILE-UP; FATIGUE LIMIT; FATIGUE THRESHOLDS; LOAD RATIO;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE;

EID: 0029779194     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8442(95)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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