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Fatigue (material) Fracture surface of an aluminium crank arm from a bicycle. The dark area (due to oil, dirt and fretting) is a slow growth fatigue crack and may contain striations. The bright area is caused by sudden fracture. Mechanical failure modes. Buckling.
The damage occurs at a lower stress level than the stress level needed to create a normal tensile fracture. [2] Static fatigue can involve plastic deformation [3] or crack growth. [4] [5] For example, repeated stress can create small cracks that grow and eventually break apart plastic, [6] glass, [7] or ceramic [8] materials.
Material failure theory is an interdisciplinary field of materials science and solid mechanics which attempts to predict the conditions under which solid materials fail under the action of external loads. The failure of a material is usually classified into brittle failure (fracture) or ductile failure (yield).
Polymer fracture is the study of the fracture surface of an already failed material to determine the method of crack formation and extension in polymers both fiber reinforced and otherwise. [1] Failure in polymer components can occur at relatively low stress levels, far below the tensile strength because of four major reasons: long term stress ...
Low cycle fatigue (LCF) has two fundamental characteristics: plastic deformation in each cycle; and low cycle phenomenon, in which the materials have finite endurance for this type of load. The term cycle refers to repeated applications of stress that lead to eventual fatigue and failure; low-cycle pertains to a long period between applications.
e. Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp ...
Intergranular fatigue fracture involves cases in which the integranular fracture occurs as a result of cyclic loading, or fatigue. This specific type of intergranular fracture is often associated with improper materials processing or harsh environmental conditions where the grains are severely weakened. [ 6 ]
Goodman relation. Within the branch of materials science known as material failure theory, the Goodman relation (also called a Goodman diagram, a Goodman-Haigh diagram, a Haigh diagram or a Haigh-Soderberg diagram) is an equation used to quantify the interaction of mean and alternating stresses on the fatigue life of a material. [1]