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On the Role of Plasticity-Induced Fatigue Crack Closure in High-Strength Steels

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Plasticity-induced crack closure (PICC) has long been focused as supposedly controlling factor of fatigue crack growth (FCG). However, when the plane-strain near-tip constraint is approached, PICC lacks of straightforward evidence, so that its significance in FCG, and even the very existence, remain debatable. To add insights into this matter, large-deformation elastoplastic simulations of plane-strain crack under constant amplitude load cycling at different load ranges and ratios, as well as with an overload, have been performed. Modeling visualizes the Laird-Smith conceptual mechanism of FCG by plastic blunting and re-sharpening. Simulation reproduces the experimental trends of FCG concerning the roles of stress intensity factor range and overload, but PICC has never been detected.

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    M. Ashraf Imam (Professor of Materials Science) (Professor of Materials Science)

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Toribio, J., Kharin, V. (2016). On the Role of Plasticity-Induced Fatigue Crack Closure in High-Strength Steels. In: Srivatsan, T.S., Imam, M.A., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Fatigue of Materials III. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48240-8_16

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