Effect of grain size on collective damage of short cracks and fatigue life estimation for a stainless steel

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1317-1325

  Hong, Y ^a   Qiao, Y ^a   Liu, N ^b   Zheng, X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crack density; Dimensional analysis; Fatigue life; Grain size effect; Short fatigue cracks; Stainless steel

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NUCLEATION; POISSON RATIO; STRESSES;

CRACK DENSITY; CYCLIC LOADING; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; GRAIN BOUNDARY RESISTANCE; SHORT FATIGUE CRACKS;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0032201627     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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