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Miscellanea Views: 1,325 Downloads: 1,420 Vol. 5, No. 18 (2011) pp. pages 54-68

Fracture toughness and fatigue resistance of quenched and tempered steels with microstructures deriving from a slant quench. Consequences on technical standards

D. Firrao, P. Matteis

Mechanical components fabbricated with quenched and tempered steels, exhibiting mixed microstructures as derived from slant quench conditions, are frequently encountered in the industrial practice, owing to a tendency to employ quite low…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.18.06Copy the DOI link

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 1,001 Downloads: 647 Vol. 18, No. 68 (2024) February 15, 2024 pp. 175-185

Ultrasonic fatigue testing of AISI 304 and 316 stainless steels under environmental and immersion conditions

Luis M. Torres Duarte, Gonzalo Mariano Domínguez Almaraz, Hipólito M. Venegas Montaño

Ultrasonic fatigue tests were carried out on stainless steel AISI 316 and 304, under two modalities: at room temperature and in immersion (water for 316 and antifreeze for 304 steels); all tests were carried out with a loading ratio R=-1.…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,171 Downloads: 588 Vol. 4, No. 13 (2010) pp. pages 3-16

Ductile cast irons: microstructure influence on fatigue crack propagation resistance

Francesco Iacoviello, Vittorio Di Cocco, Mauro Cavallini

Microstructure influence on fatigue crack propagation resistance in five different ductile cast irons (DCI) was investigated. Four ferrite/pearlite volume fractions were considered, performing fatigue crack propagation tests according to…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.13.01Copy the DOI link

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Miscellanea Views: 1,323 Downloads: 474 Vol. 11, No. 42 (2017) September 29, 2017 pp. Pages 105-118

Probabilistic fatigue S-N curves derivation for notched components

P. Raposo, J.A.F.O. Correia, A.M.P. De Jesus, R.A.B. Calçada

Europe has a number of ancient riveted metallic bridges, constructed during the second half of the 19th century up to the middle of the 20th century, which are still in operation. In this paper, a unified approach is presented to generate…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.42.12Copy the DOI link

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SI: Crack Paths - CP2024 Views: 656 Downloads: 331 Vol. 19, No. 72 (2025) March 23, 2025 pp. 225-235

Effect of contact geometry, loading, material properties and relative slip on the fretting fatigue behaviour of metallic components

Andrea Zanichelli, Andrea Carpinteri, Camilla Ronchei, Daniela Scorza

Metallic structural components, placed in contact with other bodies while experiencing vibrations in operating conditions, are susceptible to fretting, which can have a significant impact on their fatigue performance. Although extensive…

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 949 Downloads: 766 Vol. 17, No. 65 (2023) June 22, 2023 pp. 100-111

Fatigue life investigation of notched TC4 specimens subjected to different patterns of laser shock peening

Anastasia Iziumova, Maxim Zhelnin, Anastasia Kostina, Aleksei Vshivkov, Elena Gachegova, Oleg Plekhov, S. Swaroop

The exhaustion of constructive ways for increasing the service life of parts has led to the development of new methods which can improve their material properties during operation under various loading conditions. Laser shock peening (LSP)…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,171 Downloads: 449 Vol. 9, No. 34 (2015) September 28, 2015

Fatigue crack micromechanisms in a Cu-Zn-Al shape memory alloy with pseudo-elastic behavior

Vittorio Di Cocco, Francesco Iacoviello, Stefano Natali, Andrea Brotzu

Shape memory property characterizes the behavior of many Ti based and Cu based alloys (SMAs). In Cu-Zn-Al SMAs, the original shape recovering is due to a bcc phase that is stable at high temperature. After an appropriate cooling process…

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Miscellanea Views: 887 Downloads: 501 Vol. 9, No. 34 (2015) September 28, 2015

EBSD-assisted fractographic analysis of crack paths in magnesium alloy

S. Takaya, Y. Uematsu, T. Kakiuchi

Magnesium (Mg) alloys are attractive as structural materials due to their light weight and high specific strength. It is well known that Mg alloy has hexagonal close-packed (HCP) structure and only basal slip or twinning can operate during…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.34.39Copy the DOI link

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 999 Downloads: 601 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 7, 2019 pp. 545-553

Evaluation of Fatigue Properties under Four-point Bending and Fatigue Crack Propagation in Austenitic Stainless Steel with a Bimodal Harmonic Structure

Shoichi Kikuchi, Yuta Nakatsuka, Yoshikazu Nakai, Masashi Nakatani, Mie Ota Kawabata, Kei Ameyama

Austenitic stainless steel (JIS-SUS304L) with a bimodal harmonic structure, which is defined as a coarse-grained structure surrounded by a network of fine grains, was fabricated using powder metallurgy to improve both the strength and…

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 751 Downloads: 497 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) February 26, 2019 pp. 125-134

Influence of microstructure on fatigue property of ultra high-strength steels

Kanji OKUDA, Kazuhiro OGAWA, Yuji ICHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi SHIOZAKI, Naoki YAMAGUCHI

Ultra-high-strength steels (with tensile strength higher than 980 MPa) are widely used in automobile manufacturing owing to their lightweight that contributes to fuel efficiency. The fatigue strength of ultra-high-strength steels with a…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.15Copy the DOI link

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SI: IGF27 - 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Views: 734 Downloads: 862 Vol. 18, No. 69 (2024) April 27, 2024 pp. 142-153

Experimental investigation on the fatigue and fracture properties of a fine pearlitic rail steel

Davide Leonetti, Bart Schotsman

This study reports an experimental investigation of the fatigue and fracture resistance of R350HT, a heat-treated pearlitic rail steel with refined microstructure used in rails. Monotonic tensile, rotating bending, linear elastic plane…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.69.11Copy the DOI link

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Miscellanea Views: 1,105 Downloads: 624 Vol. 6, No. 21 (2012) June 29, 2012 pp. 46-53

Infrared thermography study of the fatigue crack propagation

A.Yu. Fedorova, M.V. Bannikov, M.V. Bannikov, O.A. Plekhov, E.V. Plekhova

The work is devoted to the experimental study of heat dissipation process caused by fatigue crack propagation. To investigate a spatial and time temperature evolution at the crack tip set of experiments was carried out using specimens with…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.21.06Copy the DOI link

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SI: IGF25 – International Conference 2019 Views: 964 Downloads: 410 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) October 14, 2019 pp. 1-8

Three approaches to evaluate of the heat dissipated during fatigue crack propagation experiments

Alena Vedernikova, Anastasiia Iziumova, Aleksey Vshivkov, Oleg Plekhov

This work is devoted to the comparative analysis of three techniques for measurement of energy dissipation in metals under fatigue crack propagation: original contact heat flux sensor, post-processing of the infrared thermography data and…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.01Copy the DOI link

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Fracture Views: 674 Downloads: 612 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) August 17, 2019 pp. 231-241

Crack growth study under thermo-mechanical loads: parametric analysis for 2024 T3 aluminum alloy

Salmi abdallah, Mohamed Elajrami, Mohamed El-Amine Slimani

Due to their severe operating conditions, many industrial components are subjected to complex combinations of cyclic mechanical stresses and thermal pressures. These combinations are responsible for the initiation and propagation of…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.50.19Copy the DOI link

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 782 Downloads: 543 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 8, 2019 pp. 611-629

Stress Intensity Factor Equations for the Evolution of Surface and Corner Cracks to Through Cracks

Antonio Miranda, Rafael Marques, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro

Part-through surface or corner 2D cracks are commonly found in structural components, even because practically all fatigue cracks tend to start this way. It is a reasonable hypothesis to model them assuming the shape of their fronts is…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.59Copy the DOI link

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Miscellanea Views: 1,170 Downloads: 654 Vol. 10, No. 35 (2016) December 29, 2015 pp. pages 492-499

Cracks path growth in turbine blades with TBC under thermo – mechanical cyclic loadings

T. Sadowski, P. Golewski

Blades of combustion turbines are extremely loaded turbojet elements, which transmit operative energy onto a rotor. Experiences of many years indicate, that cracks initiation and propagation in the blades during the operation time can…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.35.55Copy the DOI link

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Fracture Views: 1,543 Downloads: 626 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 346-362

Investigation fatigue crack initiation and propagation cruciform welded joints by extended finite element method (XFEM) and implementation SED approach

Hamza Djeloud, Mustafa Moussaoui, Ahmed Kellai, Dahmane Hachi, Filippo Berto, Benattou Bouchouicha, Brahim Elkhalil Hachi

This study has used the strain energy density (SED) approach to evaluate the stress intensity factor (SIF) of cracked cruciform welded joints in Hardox 450 steel. A microstructural analysis was made of Hardox 450 steel which is composed of…

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Miscellanea Views: 580 Downloads: 619 Vol. 1, No. 1 (2007) pp. 25-28

Numerical modelling in non linear fracture mechanics

Viggo Tvergaard

Some numerical studies of crack propagation are based on using constitutive models that account for damage evolution in the material. When a critical damage value has been reached in a material point, it is natural to assume that this…

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SI: New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture Views: 1,423 Downloads: 416 Vol. 13, No. 50 (2019) July 9, 2019 pp. 1-9

The effect of fatigue crack rate on the heat dissipation in metals under mixed-mode loading

Aleksei Vshivkov, Oleg Plekhov

The monitoring of a heat dissipation process can give an important information about kinetics of deformation process and current crack propagation rate. The work is devoted to the theoretical and experimental study of the problem. The…

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SI: Crack Paths Views: 661 Downloads: 478 Vol. 13, No. 48 (2019) March 8, 2019 pp. 639-647

Multi-axial fatigue numerical crack propagation in cruciform specimens

Venanzio Giannella, Michele Perrella

Two cracks, initiated from the opposite tips of a central notch inclined by 45°, were considered in cruciform specimens made of Ti6246. A static load was applied to a cruciform arm while a cyclic load was applied along the other arm.…

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 237 Downloads: 137 Vol. 20, No. 77 (2026) April 25, 2026 pp. 173-206

Mechanical characterization and crack propagation in Additively Manufactured Polymers using Digital Image Correlation: a review

Taoufik Hachimi, Najat Zekriti, Fouad Ait Hmazi, Hamza Bagar, Hatim El Assad, Nassima Naboulsi

While Additive Manufacturing (AM) of polymers has matured from rapid prototyping to functional production, the layer-wise fabrication process introduces significant mechanical anisotropy and microstructural heterogeneity, which complicates…

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SI: Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields Views: 613 Downloads: 588 Vol. 13, No. 49 (2019) June 7, 2019 pp. 82-96

On relation between J-integral and heat energy dissipation at the crack tip in stainless steel specimens

Giovanni Meneghetti, Mauro Ricotta, Giuseppe Pitarresi

In this paper, an experimental procedure to evaluate the elastic-plastic J-integral at the tip of a fatigue crack is presented. According to this new approach, the elastic component of the J-integral is derived from Thermoelastic Stress…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.49.09Copy the DOI link

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Miscellanea Views: 982 Downloads: 566 Vol. 12, No. 46 (2018) September 26, 2018 pp. 266-274

Micro failure analysis of adhesively bonded joints enhanced with natural cork particles: Impact of overlap length and particles volume fraction

Alireza Akhavan-Safar, Ana Queirós Barbosa, Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva, Majid Reza Ayatollahi

In this work, the effects of natural particles on the micro failure mechanisms and static strength of an epoxy are studied using scanning electron microscope (SEM) technique. To this end, bulk specimens and adhesively bonded single lap…

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Miscellanea Views: 995 Downloads: 505 Vol. 6, No. 21 (2012) June 29, 2012 pp. 21-29

A three-parameter model for fatigue crack growth data analysis

A. De Iorio, M. Grasso, F. Penta, G.P. Pucillo

A three-parameters model for the interpolation of fatigue crack propagation data is proposed. It has been validated by a Literature data set obtained by testing 180 M(T) specimens under three different loading levels. In details, it is…

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Fatigue and Fracture of metallic alloys Views: 425 Downloads: 255 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) November 5, 2025 pp. 265-280

Experimental and 3D numerical analysis on the effect of specimen thickness on fracture toughness of Al6061-SiC-cenosphere Hybrid composites

E. Ashoka, T.H. Manjunatha, H. S. Naveen Kumar, S. V. Lingaraju, H. N. Ravikumar

This study examines the fracture toughness of Al6061 alloy-based hybrid composites reinforced with silicon carbide particles and cenosphere microspheres. Aluminum alloy Al6061 is widely utilized in structural applications due to its…

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