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Small Fatigue Cracks: Mechanics, Mechanisms and Applications - Mechanics, Mechanisms and Applications
Front Cover
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Small Fatigue Cracks: Mechanics, Mechanisms and Applications
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Copyright Page
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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Referees
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PART I: NUCLEATION OF SMALL CRACKS AND STAGE I GROWTH
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Chapter 1. A Theory of Fracture with a Polygonal Shape Crack
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Chapter 2. Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Metallic Materials
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Chapter 3. Micromechanical Simulations of Stage I Fatigue Crack Growth under Multiaxial Loading
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Chapter 4. Subsurface Fatigue-Crack Initiation and Growth of Plasma-Assisted Duplex Surface-Treated Tool Steel
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Chapter 5. Effect of Graphite Nodule Distribution on Crack Initiation and Early Growth in Austempered Ductile Iron
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PART II: THEORY OF SMALL CRACKS
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Chapter 6. Mechanics of Small Fatigue Crack Propagation
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Chapter 7. Analysis of Small Crack Growth Behavior using Unified Approach
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Chapter 8. The Role of Grain-Induced Local Anisotropy on Stress Intensity Factor for Microstructurally-Small Cracks
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PART III: SMALL CRACK GROWTH IN STRUCTURAL ALLOYS
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Chapter 9. Significance of Crack Shape or Aspect Ratio to the Behavior of Small Fatigue Cracks in Titanium Alloys
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Chapter 10. Fatigue Crack Tip Constraint and Closure as a Function of Crack Length
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Chapter 11. Cause of Unsuccessful Results of Miner's Rule: Behavior of Small Fatigue Crack Growth under Repeated Two Step Loadings
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Chapter 12. The Role of Near-Threshold Small-Crack Behavior in Life Prediction of Titanium Alloys For Use in Advanced Turbine Engines
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Chapter 13. Growth of Small Fatigue Cracks in the Presence of Residual Stresses
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Chapter 14. A Study of Small Fatigue Crack Growth in Cast Aluminum and Prediction of Fatigue Properties
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Chapter 15. Influence of Environment on Small Fatigue Crack Growth
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Chapter 16. Microstructural Influences on Fatigue Crack Growth in the Near Alpha Titanium Alloy TIMETAL 834
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Chapter 17. Mechanisms of Fatigue Crack Nucleation of Surface and Subsurface Regions and Their Effect on Fatigue Life of Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al
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Chapter 18. Crystallographic Orientation and Short Fatigue Crack Propagation in a Titanium Alloy
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Chapter 19. Behavior of a Small Surface Crack in Prestrained Heat-Treated Carbon Steels
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Chapter 20. Initiation and Propagation Behavior of Small Fatigue Cracks in HIP-Treated Aluminum Alloy: AC4CH
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Chapter 21. Initiation and Growth Behavior of a Small Fatigue Crack in Nickel-Base Superalloy at Elevated Temperatures
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PART IV: SMALL CRACKS IN ADVANCED MATERIALS
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Chapter 22. The Importance of Small Fatigue Cracks in Advanced Materials
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Chapter 23. Cyclic-Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation in Ceramics
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Chapter 24. Small-Crack Behavior in Silicon Nitride at Elevated Temperature
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Chapter 25. Subcritical Growth of Microstructurally Small Cracks in Silicon Nitride Ceramics
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Chapter 26. Small Crack Effects in Ceramic Materials
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Chapter 27. Initiation and Growth Mechanism of Small Fatigue Cracks in SiC/Al Composites
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Chapter 28. Small Fatigue Cracks in Laminates with Through-Thickness Reinforcement
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Chapter 29. Fracture and Fatigue Behavior in Micromaterials
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PART V: EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
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Chapter 30. How to Measure Small Cracks by Nanosecond Acoustic Microscopy
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Chapter 31. Observations of Fatigue Skip-Bands and Stage I Crack-Initiation Process in a-Brass using Scanning Atomic-Force Microscopy
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PART VI: FRETTING FATIGUE
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Chapter 32. Modeling and Experimental Studies on Fretting Fatigue
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Chapter 33. Small Crack Methodologies and Crack Arrest in Fretting Fatigue
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PART VII: MIXED-MODE, VARIABLE AMPLITUDE AND THERMAL SHOCK LOADING
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Chapter 34. Effects of Small Defects on the Fatigue Strength of Steel and Ductile Iron Under Combined Axial/Torsional Loading
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Chapter 35. Analysis of Small Fatigue-Crack Growth Under Two-Step Loading Conditions
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Chapter 36. Effect of Loading Sequence on Fatigue Damage Under Push-Pull Followed by Torsion and Torsion Followed by Push-Pull
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Chapter 37. The Role of Multiaxial Stresses in the Development of Small Fatigue Cracks in Turbine Engine Blades
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Chapter 38. On Fatigue Damage and Small-Crack Growth Behavior of Silicon Nitride Under Cyclic Thermal Shock-Loading
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PART VIII: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
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Chapter 39. Application of Small-Crack Theory to Aircraft Materials
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Chapter 40. Spectrum Fatigue of Joints – The Influence of Small Cracks on Long Fatigue Lives
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Chapter 41. The Growth of Small Fatigue Cracks in Airframe Structures
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Chapter 42. Equivalent Initial Flaw Size Using Small Crack Data
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Chapter 43. Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Small Cracks Emanating from a Corner Notch
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Chapter 44. Short Fatigue Crack Propagation at Spot Welds: Experiments and Simulations
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Chapter 45. Concluding Remarks and Scope for the Future
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Subject Index
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Author Index
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