High-cycle fatigue of Ti-6Al-4V

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 621-631

  Ritchie, R O ^b   Davidson, D L ^a,b   Boyce, B L ^b   Campbell, J P ^b   Roder, O ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

FATIGUE THRESHOLDS; FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE (FOD); HIGH-CYCLE FATIGUE;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0032653953     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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