Fatigue crack closure

Abstract A loading stage for the scanning electron microscope has been used in conjunction with the stereoimaging technique to study fatigue crack closure for a center notched specimen of an aluminum alloy. The results are compared to similar measurements from single edge notched specimens of the same alloy and other materials. The magnitudes of closure loads were found to be different for these two specimen designs, but the dependence on stress intensity factor ( ΔK ) is the same. Comparison of experiments is made with a finite element model simulation of crack opening, a simple model is developed which simulates the observed opening behavior, and a method is given for estimating threshold ΔK from materials parameters and crack opening behavior in the near threshold region.

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