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Microstructural approach to fatigue crack processes in polycrystalline bcc materials. Annual technical progress report II. [HSLA steels; Ti-30 Mo]

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6558938· OSTI ID:6558938

Objectives are to understand the roles of alloy additions, grain size and yield strength on fatigue threshold and near-threshold growth rates for selected bcc materials. Thus far, a predictive model for burst cleavage in Fe-binary alloys has been derived and verified. A predictive model for cyclic strain hardening exponents of an HSLA steel at low temperatures has been derived and verified. A proposed model for cyclic cleavage crack extension in terms of geometrically necessary dislocations has been partially investigated. Experimentally, grain size and low temperature effects on thresholds and crack growth of HSLA steels and Ti-30 Mo have been nearly completed and similar studies on Fe-binary alloys are in progress. With such input, models are currently being developed for prediction of microstructural effects on threshold and near-threshold crack growth under mixed mode conditions.

Research Organization:
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis (USA). Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
DOE Contract Number:
AS02-79ER10433
OSTI ID:
6558938
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/10433-2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English