Influence of microstructure on fatigue behavior and surface fatigue crack growth of fully pearlitic steels |
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Authors: | M A Daeubler A W Thompson I M Bernstein |
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Affiliation: | (1) MTU-Munich, Postfach 500640, 8000 Munich 50, West Germany;(2) Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213 Pittsburgh, PA;(3) Illinois Institute of Technology, 60616 Chicago, IL |
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Abstract: | This work examined the influence of microstructure on the surface fatigue crack propagation behavior of pearlitic steels.
In addition to endurance limit or S(stress amplitude)-N(life) tests, measurements of crack initiation and growth rates of
surface cracks were conducted on hourglass specimens at 10 Hz and with aR ratio of 0.1. The microstructures of the two steels used in this work were characterized as to prior austenite grain size
and pearlite spacing. The endurance tests showed that the fatigue strength was inversely proportional to yield strength. In
crack growth, cracks favorably oriented to the load axis were nucleated (stage I) with a crack length of about one grain diameter.
Those cracks grew at low ΔK values, with a relatively high propagation rate which decreased as the crack became longer. After
passing a minimum, the crack growth rate increased again as cracks entered stage II. Many of the cracks stopped growing in
the transition stage between stages I and II. Microstructure influenced crack propagation rate; the rate was faster for microstructures
with coarse lamellar spacing than for microstructures with fine lamellar spacing, although changing the prior austenite grain
size from 30 to 130 jμm had no significant influence on crack growth rate. The best combination of resistance to crack initiation
and growth of short cracks was exhibited by microstructures with both a fine prior austenite grain size and a fine lamellar
spacing.
Formerly with Carnegie Mellon University |
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