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- Title
Fatigue crack nuclei in austempered ductile cast iron.
- Authors
Marrow, T.J.; Çetinel, H.; Al-Zalmah, M.; MacDonald, S.; Withers, P.J.; Walton, J.
- Abstract
Short fatigue crack nuclei in austempered ductile cast iron have been studied using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray microtomography and by electron backscatter diffraction analysis. Fatigue cracks nucleate at graphite nodules and shrinkage microporosity. The crack nuclei are arrested and retarded by barriers in the microstructure, by either blocking of slip at boundaries or owing to the requirement for tilt and twist of the stage I crystallographic crack at grain boundaries. These observations indicate that both the size of the defects, such as graphite nodules and microporosity, and the size of the prior austenite grains control the largest crack nucleus that can develop, and hence determine the component fatigue limit.
- Subjects
STRESS corrosion; NODULAR iron; MICROSCOPY
- Publication
Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 2002, Vol 25, Issue 7, p635
- ISSN
8756-758X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1460-2695.2002.00503.x