CASTING DEFECTS AND THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF AN ALUMINUM CASTING ALLOY

被引：298
作者：
COUPER, MJ
NEESON, AE
GRIFFITHS, JR
机构：
[1] Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria
来源：
FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS & STRUCTURES | 1990年 / 13卷 / 03期
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D O I：
10.1111/j.1460-2695.1990.tb00594.x
中图分类号：
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号：
0802 ;
摘要：
Abstract— The fatigue properties of un‐notched polished specimens of an aluminium casting alloy have been measured for various heat‐treatment conditions and at various mean stresses. The relation between fatigue life and alternating stress is insensitive to heat‐treatment and, apparently, to mean stress. It was observed that failure initiated at interdendritic shrinkage defects: evidence of classical crack initiation from persistent slip bands was also seen but such cracks, being less severe than the casting defects, never caused failure. A fracture mechanics analysis for the growth of fatigue cracks from the pores is described. It shows that the fatigue life can be quantitatively predicted from a knowledge of the size of casting defects: in particular it explains the lack of effect of heat‐treatment and the apparent absence of a mean stress effect is shown to be caused by the variation in size of maximum defect present among the specimens tested. It is shown that reducing the size of shrinkage defects will increase the life, but only up to the stage at which initiation from persistent slip bands becomes operative. Copyright © 1990, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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页数：15
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