The warm prestressing effect in steels undergoing intergranular fracture

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1399-1411

  Cheng, J ^a   Noble, F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crack tip blunting; Intergranular fracture; Stress relief; Warm prestressing

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CRACKS; HEAT TREATMENT; STEEL; STRESS RELIEF;

CRACK BLUNTING; INTERGRANULAR FRACTURE; WARM PRESTRESSING;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0031384582     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb01498.x     Document Type: Article

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