Residual stress effects on fatigue crack growth in a Ti-6Al-4V friction stir weld

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 569-580

  Pasta, S ^a   Reynolds, A P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth propagation; Friction stir welding; Residual stress; Titanium alloy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRACK DETECTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FORECASTING; FRICTION; FRICTION WELDING; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TRIBOLOGY; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES; WELDING; WELDS;

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH PROPAGATION; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RATE; FATIGUE CRACKS; FRICTION STIR; FRICTION STIR WELDED JOINTS; FRICTION STIR WELDING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RESIDUAL STRESS; RESIDUAL STRESS EFFECTS; TI-6AL-4V; TITANIUM ALLOY;

FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 52649109792     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2008.01258.x     Document Type: Article

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