A study on the change of fatigue fracture mode in two titanium alloys

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1077-1087

  Wang, S H ^a   Muller C ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crack growth rates; Fatigue; Fractography; Fracture mode change; Plastic zone size; Titanium alloy

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; KINETIC ENERGY; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE;

FATIGUE FRACTURE MODE CHANGE; PLASTIC ZONE SIZE;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0032288145     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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