Near threshold fatigue crack growth in aluminium alloys at low and ultrasonic frequency: Influences of specimen thickness, strain rate, slip behaviour and air humidity

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-411

  Holper, B ^a   Mayer, H ^a   Vasudevan, A K ^b   Stanzl Tschegg, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

2024; 7075; Air humidity; Fatigue; Specimen thickness; Strain rate; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE TESTING; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDRAULIC SERVOMECHANISMS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; VACUUM;

PLANAR SLIPS; ULTRASONIC FATIGUE TESTING;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0037406125     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-1123(02)00163-9     Document Type: Article

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