THE INITIATION AND GROWTH OF FATIGUE CRACKS IN A TITANIUM ALUMINIDE ALLOY

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DAVIDSON, DL
CAMPBELL, JB
PAGE, RA
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[1] Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, 78228-0510, TX
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METALLURGICAL TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE | 1991年 / 22卷 / 02期
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10.1007/BF02656806
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T [工业技术];
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The micromechanics of small, naturally initiated fatigue cracks and large through-thickness fatigue cracks have been studied in the titanium aluminide alloy Super Alpha 2. The microstructure investigated had equal volume fractions of alpha-2 and beta-phases. Crack growth rates were higher than through alpha-beta-titanium alloys. Initiation of small cracks was found always to occur in the alpha-2 phase, and small cracks grew below DELTA-K(th), the minimum cyclic stress intensity required for growth of large fatigue cracks. A method previously proposed for reconciling the growth rates of large and small cracks is applied to these results.
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