Abstract
AbstractThe growth behaviour of small fatigue cracks has been investigated in a low carbon steel under axial loading at the stress ratios R of –1 (tension‐compression) and 0 (pulsating‐tension). Crack closure was measured to evaluate the effects of stress ratio and stress level on small crack growth. Except for the accelerated growth at stress levels close to the yield stress of the material, at R=–1 small cracks grow faster than large cracks below a certain crack length, but at R= 0 the crack growth rates for small cracks are coincident with those for large cracks in the whole region of crack length investigated. The critical crack length, 2cc, above which the growth behaviour of small cracks is similar to that of large cracks depends on stress ratio, being 1–2 mm at R=–1 and smaller than 0.7 mm at R=0. The 2cc value at R=–1 agrees with that obtained under rotating bending (R=–1). The small crack data are closely correlated with large crack growth rates in terms of the effective stress intensity range, ΔKeff; thus ΔKeff is found to be a characterizing parameter for small crack growth including the growth at the higher stress levels.
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