Initiation and propagation behaviour of microcracks in Ni-base superalloy Udimet 720 LI

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-18

  Goto, Masahiro ^a   Knowles, David M ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; MICROCRACKS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUPERALLOYS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FOUR-POINT BENDING FATIGUE;

NICKEL ALLOYS;

ALLOY; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE CRACK;

EID: 0032079132     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(98)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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