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Fatigue Characteristic of Medium Carbon Steel with Different Grain Structures

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This paper investigated the effect of heat treatment operations on the fatigue resistance of low carbon steel. Specimens after preparation for fatigue testing were subjected to annealing, normalizing and quenching heat treatment. Results show that the annealed specimen had the largest number of cycles to failure, indicating a high fatigue resistance. The microstructure of the specimens was examined in other to corroborate the obtained property with the microstructure. When compared with the untreated specimen, the annealed specimen (with optimum fatigue resistance) shows a large grains size of pearlite which was distributed across the entire surface of the microstructure. Generally, it was found that the size and distribution of specimens’ grains affect the resistance of the low carbon steel to fatigue failure.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Development and Characterization Research Group, University of Ilorin, P.M.B. 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria

    Sulaiman Abdulkareem

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B 1069, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

    A. T. Abdulrahim

  3. Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Development and Characterization Research Group, University of Ilorin, P.M.B. 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria

    S. I. Talabi

  4. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria

    O. H. Amuda

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, USA

    T. S. Srivatsan (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering) (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering)

  2. George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    M. Ashraf Imam (Professor of Materials Science) (Professor of Materials Science)

  3. Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA

    R. Srinivasan (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

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Abdulkareem, S., Abdulrahim, A.T., Talabi, S.I., Amuda, O.H. (2014). Fatigue Characteristic of Medium Carbon Steel with Different Grain Structures. In: Srivatsan, T.S., Imam, M.A., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Fatigue of Materials III. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48240-8_15

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