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Analysis of microdamage in a nickel‐base alloy during very high cycle fatigue
Author(s) -
Chai Guocai
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/ffe.12412
Subject(s) - materials science , crystal twinning , grain boundary , lüders band , fatigue testing , low cycle fatigue , metallurgy , alloy , slip (aerodynamics) , fatigue limit , stress concentration , base metal , microstructure , paris' law , composite material , fracture mechanics , crack closure , engineering , welding , aerospace engineering
Fatigue damage in a metallic material during very high cycle fatigue can strongly be correlated to the microstructure. This paper provides a review and a discussion on the micro damage behaviours in a nickel‐base alloy during very high cycle fatigue using microplasticity and material mechanics. The results show that cyclic plastic deformation in this material can occur very locally even with an applied stress that is much lower than the yield strength. The fatigue damage occurs mainly at grain or twin boundaries because of local impingement and interaction of slip bands and these boundaries. The crystallographic properties, Schmid factors and orientations of grain and boundaries play very important roles to the fatigue damage. Subsurface fatigue crack initiation in the matrix is one of very high cycle fatigue mechanisms. Twinning and detwinning can also occur during the very high cycle fatigue process.