Cyclic crack growth properties of service-exposed ferritic steels for use in thermal fatigue assessments

Materials at High Temperatures

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 129-146

  Skelton, R P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold hot starts; Crack opening range; Equivalent stress intensity range; Grain boundary cracking; Ligament cracking; Short deep cracks; Single edge notch specimens; Total strain range; Unexposed data

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DATA REDUCTION; DEGRADATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INSTALLATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS;

COLD STARTS; CRACK OPENING RANGE; DEEP CRACKS; EQUIVALENT STRESS INTENSITY RANGE; GRAIN BOUNDARY CRACKING; HOT STARTS; LIGAMENT CRACKING; SHORT CRACKS; SINGLE-EDGE-NOTCH SPECIMENS; UNEXPOSED DATA;

STEEL;

EID: 9144242977     PISSN: 09603409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/mht.2004.017     Document Type: Article

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