High-cycle fatigue crack paths in specimens having different stress concentration features

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 656-672

  Meneghetti, G ^a   Susmel, L ^b,c   Tovo, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crack initiation; Notch fatigue limit; Theory of Critical Distances

Indexed keywords

CARBON STEEL; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CRITICAL DISTANCE; NOTCH FATIGUE LIMIT; UNIAXIAL FATIGUE LOADING;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

CARBON STEEL; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

EID: 33846313614     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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