Propagation of microcracks at stress amplitudes below the conventional fatigue limit in Ti-6Al-4V

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 657-665

  Hines, J A ^a   Lutjering G ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRACK FRONT ROUGHNESS; TAKAHASHI-KITAGAWA DIAGRAMS; TITANIUM ALUMINUM VANADIUM ALLOYS;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0345201670     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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