Journal
ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 207, Issue -, Pages 269-276Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.12.023
Keywords
Fatigue; SN curves; Crack growth; Damage tolerance
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- Bonfiglioli Riduttori SpA
- European Commission under the Graphene Flagship Core 2 [785219]
- European Commission under the FET Proactive Neurofibres [732344]
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [L. 232/2016]
- DFG (German Research Foundation) [PA 3303/1-1, HO 3852/11-1]
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The anomalous propagation of short cracks shows generally exponential fatigue crack growth but the dependence on stress range at high stress levels is not compatible with Paris' law with exponent m = 2. Indeed, some authors have shown that the standard uncracked SN curve is obtained mostly from short crack propagation, assuming that the crack size a increases with the number of cycles N as da/dN = H Delta sigma(h)a where h is close to the exponent of the Basquin's power law SN curve. We therefore propose a general equation for crack growth which for short cracks has the latter form, and for long cracks returns to the Paris' law. We show generalized SN curves, generalized Kitagawa-Takahashi diagrams, and discuss the application to some experimental data. The problem of short cracks remains however controversial, as we discuss with reference to some examples.
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