Abstract

A quenched and tempered marine steel has been cooled at different rates after tempering and low frequency fatigue crack growth rates in air and seawater compared. Water quenching was shown to result in significantly lower fatigue crack growth rates compared to furnace cooling. The likely causes and the implications of the results are discussed.

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