In the framework of crack number density analysis, a theoretical investigation is carried out on the relationship between the statistical characteristics of fatigue initiation life and the stochastic growth of short fatigue cracks. The numerical results indicate that, compared with the influence of grain boundary resistance, the effect of the degree of randomness of crystallographic crack growt...

There are few experimental results to date describing the crack-propagation threshold behavior of short fatigue cracks under multiaxial loading conditions. To address this need, in the present study, the variation in mixed-mode, high-cycle fatigue-crack growth thresholds with crack size and shape are reported for a Ti-6Al-4V turbine blade alloy, heat treated to two widely different microstructu...

For monolithic, grain-bridging ceramics, the crack-size dependence of the fatigue threshold during bridging zone development presents a difficulty in its application in design. This paper demonstrates how a fatigue threshold R-curve may express this crack-size dependence, analogous to the traditional fracture toughness R-curve, and may be used to predict the endurance limit and retained strengt...

There are few experimental results to date describing the crack-propagation threshold behavior of short fatigue cracks under multiaxial loading conditions. To address this need, in the present study, the variation in mixed-mode, high-cycle fatigue-crack growth thresholds with crack size and shape are reported for a Ti-6Al-4V turbine blade alloy, heat treated to two widely different microstructu...

rowth of tructures k damage y strong ales. The paper, is dynamics damage iated by estimated e setting. This paper investigates correlation properties of fluctuations in fatigue crack g polycrystalline materials, such as ductile alloys, that are commonly encountered in s and machinery components of complex electromechanical systems. The model of crac measure indicates that the fluctuations of fa...

Fatigue crack propagation in 3Y-TZP was investigated using controlled surface flaws. A unique growth law strongly dependent on the maximum stress intensity factor and quadratically dependent on the amplitude of the range of stress intensity factor was established. This growth law was found to apply for both surface flaws and internal flaws and could be used to predict fatigue lifetime. The pres...

The fracture of restored teeth is a significant obstacle to lifelong oral health. Recent studies suggest that fatigue cracks originate at flaws introduced during cavity preparation and that fatigue crack growth is a principle cause of restored tooth fractures. In this study, the rate of fatigue crack growth in bovine dentin was estimated under mode I cyclic loading. Double cantilever beam (DCB)...

In this paper, the stress intensity factor (SIF) variations along an arbitrarily developing crack front, the non-planar fatigue-crack growth patterns, and the fatigue life of a round bar with an initially straight-fronted surface crack, are studied by employing the 3D symmetric Galerkin boundary element method-finite element method (SGBEM-FEM) alternating method. Different loading cases, involv...