| Abstract: | Fatigue crack propagation behaviour of an as-rolled dual-phase steel is investigated over a wide range from 10?10 to 10?6 m/cycle in a 3.5% NaCI solution and laboratory air under different load ratios. It was found that the as-rolled dual-phase steel studied in the present investigation shows good resistance to fatigue crack growth in laboratory air. The threshold values decrease with increasing stress ratios, which is consistent with the competition model proposed previously. The threshold value obtained using a 3.5% NaCI solution is higher than that in the laboratory air owing to the wedge effect of corrosion products within the crack. Fatigue crack growth rates in the higher ΔK range obey the Paris formula in each case within this study. |
