Experimental investigation on the significance of the conventional endurance limit of a spheroidal graphite cast iron

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-200

  Palin Luc, T ^a   Lasserre, S ^a   Berard, J Y ^b  

^a ARTS ET MÉTIERS PARISTECH   (France)

^b RENAULT   (France)

Author keywords

Cast iron; Crack initiation; Endurance limit; High cycle fatigue; SEM observations; Small load cycles

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE TESTING; FERRITE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROCRACKS; PEARLITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ENDURANCE LIMIT; FOUR POINT BENDING TESTS;

CAST IRON;

EID: 0031679763     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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