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English: Geometrical representation of crack growth with respect to the alternate stress intensity, along with the representation of Paris' curve in the linear region of Regime B. Other information More information on this crack propagation curve can be found in Ritchie, R. O. "Near-threshold fatigue-crack propagation in steels."
A crack growth equation is used for calculating the size of a fatigue crack growing from cyclic loads. The growth of a fatigue crack can result in catastrophic failure, particularly in the case of aircraft. When many growing fatigue cracks interact with one another it is known as widespread fatigue damage. A crack growth equation can be used to ...
In a 1961 paper, P. C. Paris introduced the idea that the rate of crack growth may depend on the stress intensity factor. [4] Then in their 1963 paper, Paris and Erdogan indirectly suggested the equation with the aside remark "The authors are hesitant but cannot resist the temptation to draw the straight line slope 1/4 through the data" after reviewing data on a log-log plot of crack growth ...
In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading. Once a fatigue crack has initiated, it grows a small amount with each loading cycle, typically producing striations on some parts of the fracture surface.
Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL ... More information on this crack propagation curve can be found in Ritchie, R. O. "Near-threshold fatigue ...
In a falling R-curve regime, as a crack propagates, the resistance to further crack propagation drops, and it requires less and less applied in order to achieve each subsequent increment of crack extension . Materials experiencing these conditions would exhibit highly unstable crack growth as soon as any initial crack began to propagate.
AFGROW (Air Force Grow) is a Damage Tolerance Analysis (DTA) computer program that calculates crack initiation, fatigue crack growth, and fracture to predict the life of metallic structures. Originally developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory , AFGROW [ 1 ] is mainly used for aerospace applications, but can be applied to any type of ...
Scanning electron microscope image of fatigue striations produced from constant amplitude loading. The crack is growing from left to right. Striations are marks produced on the fracture surface that show the incremental growth of a fatigue crack. A striation marks the position of the crack tip at the time it was made.