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Threshold and growth mechanism of fatigue cracks under mode II and III loadings |
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| Authors: | Y MURAKAMI K TAKAHASHI R KUSUMOTO |
| Affiliation: | Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakazaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan,;Department of Energy &Safety Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The fatigue crack growth behaviour of 0.47% carbon steel was studied under mode II and III loadings. Mode II fatigue crack growth tests were carried out using specially designed double cantilever (DC) type specimens in order to measure the mode II threshold stress intensity factor range, ΔKIIth. The relationship ΔKIIth > ΔKIth caused crack branching from mode II to I after a crack reached the mode II threshold. Torsion fatigue tests on circumferentially cracked specimens were carried out to study the mechanisms of both mode III crack growth and of the formation of the factory‐roof crack surface morphology. A change in microstructure occurred at a crack tip during crack growth in both mode II and mode III shear cracks. It is presumed that the crack growth mechanisms in mode II and in mode III are essentially the same. Detailed fractographic investigation showed that factory‐roofs were formed by crack branching into mode I. Crack branching started from small semi‐elliptical cracks nucleated by shear at the tip of the original circumferential crack. |
| Keywords: | crack branching crack growth induced microstructure change factory-roof mode II fatigue crack growth mode III fatigue crack growth threshold stress intensity factor range |