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Crack growth in a naturally corroded bridge steel
Author(s) -
Ali K,
Peng D,
Jones R,
Singh R R K,
Zhao X L,
McMillan A J,
Berto F
Publication year - 2017
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.12568
Subject(s) - bridge (graph theory) , corrosion , aerospace , materials science , structural engineering , natural (archaeology) , metallurgy , aerospace materials , engineering , forensic engineering , geology , aerospace engineering , medicine , paleontology
This paper summarises the findings of an international collaborative programme that focuses on the problem of the growth of cracks that arise from natural corrosion in bridge steels. The experimental data presented in this paper confirm that the bridge steel da/dN versus Δ K relationship is similar to that seen by the high‐strength aerospace steels D6ac and 4340. It is then shown that the methodology developed to predict the growth of small naturally occurring cracks in aerospace materials can also be used to compute the growth of cracks that arise because of natural corrosion in bridge steels.