Abstract
The failure behaviors of a structural Cr-Ni-W steel under gigacycle fatigue were investigated, and a life prediction method based on the crack growth was proposed. The discovery of two failure phenomena, including the coexistence of surface and interior cracks and the coexistence of multiple fish-eyes, verifies the possibility of competing failure. The developed interior crack growth model reveals the failure progress at a slow rate below 10-10 m/cycle within the fish-eye induced by the inclusion or the inhomogeneous matrix area. The validity of the life prediction method is proved by the good agreement between the predicted and the experimental lives.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 42-53 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal of Fatigue |
| Volume | 64 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- Competing failure
- Gigacycle fatigue
- Inhomogeneous matrix area
- Life prediction
- Multiple fish-eyes