Abstract
It has been shown that the ratio of threshold stress intensity for fatigue crack growth to the shear modulus is nearly a constant for many materials. This implies that fatigue crack growth is related to some fundamental phenomenon occurring at the crack tip. In the following a dislocation model has been developed to predict the threshold stress intensity. It is shown that the stress intensity can be related to the stress necessary to nucleate a dislocation at the crack tip. The most important outcome of the present analysis is that the threshold stress intensity depends more on the elastic modulus rather than on any other material property in agreement with many experimental results.
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On a démontré que le rapport de l'intensité de seuil de la contrainte provoquant une fissuration par un accroissement de la fissuration par fatigue au module de cisaillement est sensiblement une constante pour de nombreux matériaux. Ceci implique que la croissance d'une fissure de fatigue est reliée à certains phénoménes fondamentaux qui se produisent à l'extrémité d'une fissure. Dans le mémoire, on développe un modèle de dislocation qui permet de prédire l'intensité critique de la contrainte. On montre que l'intensité de la contrainte peut être mise en relation avec la contrainte nécessaire pour créer une dislocation à l'extrémité d'une fissure. La conséquence la plus importante de cette analyse est que l'intensité critique de seuil dépend davantage du module d'élasticité que de toutes autres propriétés du matériau et ce en accord avec de nombreux résultats expérimentaux.
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Sadananda, K., Shahinian, P. Prediction of threshold stress intensity for fatigue crack growth using a dislocation model. Int J Fract 13, 585–594 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00017294
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