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ASTM Selected Technical Papers
Fatigue Mechanisms
By
JT Fong
JT Fong
1
Editor, and Chairman of Symposium Organizing Committee
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ISBN-10:
0-8031-0345-X
ISBN:
978-0-8031-0345-0
No. of Pages:
923
Publisher:
ASTM International
Publication date:
1979

The process of subsurface crack initiation in Ti-6AI-4V has been investigated in some detail. At low stress amplitudes, slip occurs primarily on prism planes and is blocked at α-β interfaces. The piled-up dislocations induce slip in the β-phase under cyclic loading which can lead to the formation of a Cottrell cleavage knife and thereby provide a site for subsurface crack initiation. At high stress amplitudes, pyramidal slip becomes operative and as a consequence a more compatible type of plastic deformation between the two phases can develop. Under these circumstances the tendency for subsurface crack initiation may be reduced.

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