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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 582, Issue -, Pages 170-177Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2013.06.001
Keywords
Magnesium alloy; High cycle fatigue; Weibull statistics; Fatigue life prediction; Fatigue modeling
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- General Motors
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51201103]
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This paper reports the significantly improved high cycle fatigue performance of a new magnesium alloy NZ30K-T6 (Mg-3Nd-0.2Zn-0.45Zr) compared with commercial AZ91-T6 alloy (Mg-9Al-1Zn). The test samples were taken from the bulkhead areas of automotive V6 engine blocks made of low pressure sand casting process, and tested at room and elevated (150 degrees C) temperatures. The room-temperature fatigue strength of the NZ30K-T6 alloy at 10(7) cycles is approximately 90 MPa, about 38% increase compared to that of AZ91-T6 alloy. Increasing test temperature (from 25 degrees C to 150 degrees C) reduces the fatigue strength of NZ30K-T6 alloy by as much as 23%. Oxide films are found to be the main cause of the fatigue crack initiation in all failed samples examined. Fatigue lives of the samples containing oxide films can be quantitatively predicted by a model using the sizes of the casting defects (i.e., oxide films in this study). The fatigue fracture behavior of the magnesium alloy castings is also well described by Weibull modulus and the characteristic fatigue life. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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