Abstract

The effects of crack growth direction on the fatigue crack growth of wire arc additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V were studied. The fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR) of horizontal and vertical samples has different stress intensity factor transition point, ΔKT, which is 11.3MPam1/2 and 10.3MPam1/2, respectively. The FCGR of vertical sample is 5% higher than that of horizontal sample when the stress intensity factor, ΔK is smaller than ΔKT. The difference in FCGR is resulted from the microstructure characterization and the fatigue crack growth direction.

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