Short fatigue crack growth behaviour in waspaloy at room and elevated temperatures

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1505-1514

  Smith, R A ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Grabowski, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic computer monitoring system; High temperature fatigue; Nickel based superalloy; Short surface crack growth

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; NICKEL ALLOYS; SURFACE TESTING;

SHORT SURFACE CRACK GROWTH; SUPERALLOY WASPALOY;

SUPERALLOYS;

EID: 0030398867     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1996.tb00185.x     Document Type: Article

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