Fatigue behaviour of cast magnesium alloy AZ91 microstructurally modified by friction stir processing

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 541-551

  Uematsu, Y ^a   Tokaji, K ^a   Fujiwara, K ^b   Tozaki, Y ^c   Shibata, H ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Honda Motor   (Japan)

^c Gifu Prefectural Metal Research Inst   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cast magnesium alloy; Crack initiation; Fatigue behaviour; Friction stir processing; Microstructural modification; Small crack growth

Indexed keywords

CAST MAGNESIUM ALLOY; FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR; FRICTION STIR PROCESSING; MICROSTRUCTURAL MODIFICATION; SMALL CRACK GROWTH;

ALLOYS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; FRICTION; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN REFINEMENT; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; TRIBOLOGY;

CRACKS;

EID: 67649671766     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2009.01358.x     Document Type: Article

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