Fatigue crack growth behaviour of gas tungsten arc, electron beam and laser beam welded Ti-6Al-4V alloy

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 4509-4520

  Balasubramanian, T S ^a   Balasubramanian, V ^b   Muthu Manickam, M A ^a  

^a Defence Research and Development Organisation   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

A. Non ferrous metals and alloys; D. Welding; E. Fatigue

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; ELECTRON BEAMS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GAS METAL ARC WELDING; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; LASER BEAM WELDING; LASER BEAMS; LOAD TESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLURGY; TENSILE TESTING; TITANIUM; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM; WELDS;

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK GROWTH CURVES; D. WELDING; E. FATIGUE; EXISTING STRUCTURE; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE MECHANICS APPROACH; GAS TUNGSTEN ARC; LAMELLAR MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; NONFERROUS METALS AND ALLOYS; TENSILE LOADS; TENSILE SPECIMENS; TI-6AL-4V; TI-6AL-4V ALLOY; WELD METAL;

CRACKS;

EID: 79957860138     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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