Compression fatigue crack growth behaviour of an aluminium alloy: Effect of overloading

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-256

  Lenets, Y N ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloy; Crack tip blunting; Cyclic compression; Fatigue crack growth; Overload; Residual stress

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LOADS (FORCES); RESIDUAL STRESSES;

CYCLIC COMPRESSION; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; OVERLOAD;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030683169     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00282.x     Document Type: Article

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