Fatigue Crack Propagation in Copper and Copper-Aluminum Single Crystals No. 2.

Abstract

The effect of crystallographic orientation, temperature and stacking fault energy on the rate of fatigue crack propagation was studied in polycrystalline copper, copper single crystals and copper-aluminum single crystals at room temperature and at liquid nitrogen temperature. A stress intensity factor was used to normalize the crack propagation data. It was found that dislocation cross slip plays a critical role on the rate of fatigue crack propagation. Existing mathematical crack propagation formulae could not explain the data on single crystals. A new fatigue crack propagation model to explain the observed results is proposed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0731413

Entities

People

  • Hitoshi Ishii
  • Johannes Weertman

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Crack Propagation
  • Cracks
  • Crystals
  • Dislocations
  • Intensity
  • Nitrogen
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Polycrystals
  • Single Crystals
  • Stress Intensity Factors
  • Stresses

Readers

  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Materials Science and Engineering.