Fatigue crack paths in coarse-grained magnesium

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 237-244

  Nicoletto, Gianni ^a   Konecna R ^b   Pirondi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILINA   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Crack closure; Crack deflection; Fatigue crack growth; Magnesium; Microstructural effects; Roughness

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; ETCHING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROSCOPES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COARSE GRAINED MAGNESIUM; CRACK CLOSURE; CRACK DEFLECTION; CRACK GRAIN INTERACTION; CRACK PATH; MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 12844260877     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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