Internal strain around crack-tip
January 31, 2009
In situ neutron-diffraction measurements were performed to investigate the lattice-strain evolution around a fatigue crack under five different loading conditions (i.e., fatigued, tensile overloaded, compressive underloaded, tensile overloaded-compressive underloaded, and compressive underloaded-tensile overloaded) during fatigue crack growth. The results show that different crack-growth behaviors are closely related to the distinct strain distributions developed near the crack tip under the various loading conditions.
