Abstract
A micro-tensile fatigue test of 42CrMo alloy steel was carried out. The result shows that the crack initiation and propagation of the material could be characterized with randomness and localization. There existed two sorts of short fatigue crack propagation behaviors for the tested material, that is, self-propagation and joint propagation with other short cracks. A short fatigue crack growth rate function was built considering the propagation characteristics. Moreover, a simulation model of short fatigue crack evolution was built. Total three samples were tested and simulated. The experimental result was in good consistent with that from simulation, both showing that the crack growth rate accelerated first and then decelerated during propagation.
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