Abstract
Heavily drawn pearlitic steel wires have a markedly oriented microstructure as a consequence of the manufacturing process by cold drawing, thereby becoming anisotropic materials in the matter of fatigue and fracture behaviour. Such a micro-arrangement influences hydrogen assisted fracture (HAF) and produces multiaxial fracture in the form of cracking path deflection. In this paper, the influence of microstructural anisotropy in cold-drawn pearlitic steels on the hydrogen-assisted micro-damage path is analysed in terms of the so-called tearing topography surface (TTS). Results reveal that hydrogen enhances the key role of the oriented microstructure in the anisotropic behaviour.
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