Fatigue crack growth behavior in weld-repaired high-strength low-alloy steel

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1862-1875

  Zhang, Chunguo ^a,b   van der Vyver, Stefan ^a   Hu, Xiaozhi ^a   Lu, Pengmin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; Fatigue crack growth; Heat affected zone (HAZ); High strength low alloy (HSLA); Weld

Indexed keywords

COMPACT TENSION SPECIMEN; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH CURVES; FATIGUE RESISTANCE; FRACTURE AND FATIGUE; HARDNESS DISTRIBUTION; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE (HAZ); HIGH STRENGTH; HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOYS; HIGH-STRENGTH LOW-ALLOY (HSLA); HIGH-STRENGTH LOW-ALLOY STEEL; LOW CARBON; METAL SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPIC FEATURES; NOTCH TOUGHNESS; PARENT METAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; VICKERS MICROHARDNESS; WELD METAL;

BUFFER LAYERS; CERIUM ALLOYS; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS; HIGH STRENGTH STEEL; LOW CARBON STEEL; METALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL METALLURGY; VICKERS HARDNESS; WELDABILITY; WELDING;

CRACKS;

EID: 79955642434     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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