Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fatigue of Mg3Cd

Part 2 Fractographic aspects

  • Papers
  • Published:
Journal of Materials Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Scanning electron microscopy has been used to study the fracture surface characteristics of single crystals and polycrystals of Mg3Cd after fatigue failure. Certain aspects of the crack propagation mode are attributed to the crystallography of the hexagonal structure of Mg3Cd. The transition from crystallographic crack growth, to growth normal to the stress axis is discussed in terms of the slip character of ordered and disordered polycrystalline Mg3Cd.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. R. W. Armstrong andG. T. Horne,J. Inst. Metals 91 (1962) 311.

    Google Scholar 

  2. C. J. Beevers andM. D. Halliday,Met. Sci. J. 3 (1969) 74.

    Google Scholar 

  3. P. J. E. Forsythe,Proc. Crack Propagation Symp., Cranfleld. p. 76 (1961).

  4. H. D. Williams andG. C. Smith,Phil. Mag. 13 (1966) 835.

    Google Scholar 

  5. M. J. Marcinkowski, “Electron Microscopy and Strength of Crystals” (Interscience, New York, 1963) p. 333.

    Google Scholar 

  6. M. J. Blackburn,Trans. AIME 239 (1967) 660.

    Google Scholar 

  7. C. H. Wells,Acta Metalurgica 17 (1969) 443.

    Google Scholar 

  8. R. W. Hertzberg, Fatigue Crack Propagation, ASTM Special Technical publication 415, p. 205 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  9. P. Neumann,Acta Metallurgico 17 (1969) 1219.

    Google Scholar 

  10. C. Laird, Fatigue Crack Propagation, ASTM Special Technical publication 415, p. 13 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  11. Hoepner,ibid p. 486.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    R. S. Whitehead & F. W. Noble

Authors
  1. R. S. Whitehead
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. F. W. Noble
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Whitehead, R.S., Noble, F.W. Fatigue of Mg3Cd. J Mater Sci 5, 856–861 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00574856

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00574856

Keywords

Search

Navigation