Behaviour of fatigue cracks emanating from circular notches in Ti-6Al-4V under bending

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-125

  Benedetti, M ^a   Bertini, L ^b   Fontanari, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crack path; Elastic plastic finite element analysis; Notch elasticity; Small fatigue crack; + titanium alloy

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS; YIELD STRESS;

CIRCULAR NOTCHES; FOUR POINT BENDING TESTS; FRACTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS; PHOTOMICROSCOPY;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 1342303543     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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