A unified description of micro and macroscopic fatigue crack behaviour Export

@article{forsyth83, abstract = {In this paper, the importance of crack front length as a factor controlling growth rate is emphasized. It is shown that fatigue cracks in aluminium alloys do not advance in a coherent manner, but the front is divided into sectors, each of which relates to an individual cracking element. These elements act with some degree of mechanical isolation from their neighbours, and such an arrangement leads to crack front fragmentation and to an increase in the real crack front length.Even on this microscopic scale the crack segments extend as though in a continuum, and, certainly at low stress intensity factors, crack paths are dictated by the local stress direction.}, author = {Forsyth, P. J. E.}, citeulike-article-id = {449672}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V35-47X78CP-51/2/1ec3f77508f6ab201158471cae2ba88d}, journal = {International Journal of Fatigue}, keywords = {aluminium, bibtex-import, crack, fractography, i-ii, shape, stage}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {3--14}, pdf = {forsyth83.pdf}, posted-at = {2005-12-25 12:44:50}, priority = {2}, title = {A unified description of micro and macroscopic fatigue crack behaviour}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V35-47X78CP-51/2/1ec3f77508f6ab201158471cae2ba88d}, volume = {5}, year = {1983} }

TY - JOUR ID - forsyth83 L3 - citeulike-article-id:449672 N2 - In this paper, the importance of crack front length as a factor controlling growth rate is emphasized. It is shown that fatigue cracks in aluminium alloys do not advance in a coherent manner, but the front is divided into sectors, each of which relates to an individual cracking element. These elements act with some degree of mechanical isolation from their neighbours, and such an arrangement leads to crack front fragmentation and to an increase in the real crack front length.Even on this microscopic scale the crack segments extend as though in a continuum, and, certainly at low stress intensity factors, crack paths are dictated by the local stress direction. IS - 1 JF - International Journal of Fatigue EP - 14 TI - A unified description of micro and macroscopic fatigue crack behaviour VL - 5 SP - 3 KW - aluminium KW - bibtex-import KW - crack KW - fractography KW - i-ii KW - shape KW - stage AU - Forsyth, PJE PY - 1983/January// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V35-47X78CP-51/2/1ec3f77508f6ab201158471cae2ba88d ER -