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The fatigue of pseudoelastic polycrystalline β-cuznsn

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The fatigue of polycrystalline pseudoelastic β-CuZnSn has been studied by cycling specimens to fixed stress. The fatigue life was found to decrease with increasing initial strain and decreasing specimen grain size. In both cases the results gave similar stress -vs - fatigue life curves, indicating that stress is the primary parameter controlling fatigue life. The results fitted a curve of the form △ε.NB f = constant, whereβ = 0.32 for the total initial strain, andβ = 0.29 for the initial elastic strain. The fatigue life appeared to be independent of strain rate. Fatigue cracks nucleated in the first cycle at three grain intersections and grew along grain boundaries until adjacent cracks linked up. In the later stages of crack growth, some intergranular cracking occurred when there were no suitably oriented grain boundaries. Both the intergranular and transgranular regions showed somewhat ill-defined fatigue striations.

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Brown, L.C. The fatigue of pseudoelastic polycrystalline β-cuznsn. Metall Trans A 13, 25–31 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02642412

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