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A Three-Dimensional Quantitative Understanding Of Short Fatigue Crack Growth In High Strength Aluminum Alloys, Wei Wen
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
The behaviors of short fatigue crack (SFC) propagation through grain boundaries (GBs) were monitored during high cycle fatigue in an Al-Li alloy AA8090. The growth behaviors of SFCs were found to be mainly controlled by the twist components (α) of crack plane deflection across each of up to first 20 GBs along the crack path. The crack plane twist at the GB can result in a resistance against SFC growth; therefore SFC propagation preferred to follow a path with minimum α at each GB. In addition to the grain orientation, the tilting of GB could also affect α.
An experiment …