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SCATTER IN SMALL CRACK PROPAGATION AND FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR IN CARBON STEELS

1993; Wiley; Volume: 16; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1460-2695.1993.tb00120.x

8756-758X

Masahiro Goto,

Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Abstract In order to investigate the physical basis of scatter in fatigue behaviour, rotatory bending of smooth fatigue specimens was carried out using two steels with different microstructures (ferrite/pearlite and tempered martensite). Fifteen or sixteen specimens were fatigued at each stress, and the initiation and propagation behaviour of a crack which led to the final fracture were examined for all the specimens. The emphasis was to investigate the scatter characteristics of fatigue behaviour based on the scatter of small crack propagation data. The data were analysed by assuming the Weibull distribution, and a statistical investigation of the physical basis of scatter was performed, i.e. the distributions for fatigue life, crack propagation life and growth rate of small cracks were established and the relation between the scatter in those distributions was studied.