Torsional fatigue of a medium carbon steel containing an initial small surface crack introduced by tension-compression fatigue: Crack branching, non-propagation and fatigue limit

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1473-1484

  Murakami, Y ^a   Takahashi, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crack branching; Crack propagation; Fatigue limit in torsion; Small defects; Threshold stress intensity factor range; max Criterion; area Parameter model

Indexed keywords

CARBON STEEL; COMPRESSION TESTING; CRACK PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEEL TESTING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TENSILE TESTING;

CRACK BRANCHING; CYCLIC TORSION;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0032258102     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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