Small fatigue cracks in an austenitic stainless steel

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-98

  Lindstedt, U ^a   Karlsson, B ^a   Nystrom M ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SANDVIK MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Austenitic stainless steel; Grain size dependence; Low cycle fatigue; Nitrogen; Replication technique; Small cracks

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NITROGEN; NUCLEATION;

CRACK DENSITY; CRACK GRAIN BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0031646579     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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