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The role of dislocation substructures in fatigue crack propagation in copper and alpha brass

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The effect of dislocation substructures on fatigue crack propagation (FCP) behavior in copper and alpha brass was studied. Various dislocation substructures were obtained by prestraining in tension. Dislocation cells were formed by this prestraining in copper and 90/10 brass and when they formed the resistance to FCP at intermediate propagation rates (5×10−9 to ∼10−7 m/cycle) increased with increasing prestrain. Planar dislocation arrays were observed in 70/30 brass instead of cells, and the effect of prestraining on the FCP resistance was insignificant. From the FCP data for each material it was observed that, regardless of the difference in the dislocation substructures and grain sizes, the two constantsC andm in the Paris equation,da/dN=C(ΔK) m, were interrelated. Possible relations between the cyclic strain hardening exponent andm are discussed. The influence of both prestrain and grain size on threshold behavior was also studied.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shizuoka University, 432, Johoku, Hamamatsu, Japan

    Hitoshi Ishii (Associate Professor)

  2. Matsushita Electric Works, 522, Hikone, Japan

    Kazuhiko Yukawa (Engineer)

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Ishii, H., Yukawa, K. The role of dislocation substructures in fatigue crack propagation in copper and alpha brass. Metall Trans A 10, 1881–1887 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02811733

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