Characteristics of fatigue surface microcrack growth in vicinal inclusion for powder metallurgy alloys

Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-332

  Xishu, Wang ^a   Yongqiang, Li ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; FEM; Inclusion; Microcrack; Powder metallurgy alloy

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CARBON STEEL; CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROCRACKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POWDER METALLURGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION; TURBINES;

INCULSION; POWDER METALLURGY ALLOY;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0942266676     PISSN: 08949166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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