Cyclic plasticity at pores and inclusions in cast Al-Si alloys

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1281-1302

  Fan, Jinghong ^a,b   McDowell, David L ^c   Horstemeyer, Mark F ^d   Gall, Ken ^e  

^a Alfred University   (United States)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Cast alloys; Computational micromechanics; Fatigue; Particle effects; Pore effects

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CYCLIC PLASTICITY;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; CASTING; FATIGUE; INCLUSION; PLASTICITY; POROSITY; SILICON;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0037411097     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(02)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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