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Effect of Interlamellar Spacing on the Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior of a Fully Pearlitic Steel

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The present study aims at investigating the low cycle fatigue behavior of two fully AISI 1080 pearlitic steels which differed in their interlamellar spacing (72 ± 15 and 143 ± 32 nm). Low cycle fatigue tests were performed under positive strain control at different total strain variations (0.6% ≤ ∆εt ≤ 1.6%). It is shown that both alloys presented an asymmetric stress response and a cyclic softening during the first fatigue life fractions. The tension stress peaks were higher for the fine pearlitic steel than for the coarse one but the compression stress peaks were less different. The extrusion–intrusion pairs formed at the external surface were more developed for the coarse pearlitic steel. The results suggest that the critical short crack size to propagate in the bulk is much smaller in the fine pearlitic steel which explains the shorter fatigue lives. For both steels, the entire fracture surface comprised a fatigue propagation zone, a final fully brittle zone separated by a narrow ductile transition zone.

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Abbreviations

ILS:

Interlamellar spacing

CP:

Coarse pearlite

FP:

Fine pearlite

LCF:

Low cycle fatigue

∆ε t (%):

Total strain range

∆ε p (%):

Plastic strain range

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The SEM and TEM national facility in Lille (France) is supported by the Conseil Regional des Hauts-de-France and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The authors thank Mr. Damien Creton and Mr. Jocelyn Golek for their help in the fatigue and metallography experiments. One the authors (D.B.) acknowledges the European Union and Centrale Lille Institut for supporting her intern at UMET inside the Erasmus agreement between Centrale Lille Institut (France) and Lviv Polytechnical National University (Ukraine).

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  1. CNRS, INRAE, Centrale Lille, UMR 8207 – UMET – Unité Matériaux Et Transformations, Univ. Lille, 59000, Lille, France

    Laís Ávila de Oliveira Silva, Guilherme Adinolfi Colpaert Sartori, Isadora Maria Oliveira Anício Costa & Jean-Bernard Vogt

  2. Bekaert NV, Bekaertstraat 2, 8550, Zwevegem, Belgium

    Laís Ávila de Oliveira Silva, Isadora Maria Oliveira Anício Costa & Christophe Mesplont

  3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Av. Professor Mello Moraes, 2463, São Paulo, SP, 05508-030, Brazil

    Guilherme Adinolfi Colpaert Sartori

  4. Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12 Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

    Diana Bondarchuk

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Ávila de Oliveira Silva, L., Adinolfi Colpaert Sartori, G., Bondarchuk, D. et al. Effect of Interlamellar Spacing on the Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior of a Fully Pearlitic Steel. Metallogr. Microstruct. Anal. 10, 692–699 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13632-021-00775-1

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