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The secondary slip behavior ahead of crystallographic fatigue cracks and its effect on the crack growth near the grain boundaries (GBs) in\([12\bar 1]\) tilt nonsymmetrical aluminum bicrystals under constant cyclic stress amplitude have been systematically examined. The displacement field ahead of short crack tips near the interfaces in two specimens has been measured by using a microfiducial grid technique. It has been observed that the critical persistent slip band (PSB) ahead of a short crack tip near the GB in a middle misoriented bicrystal was able to develop as long as the primary one and resulted in a temporary stage II growth. As a longer crystal- lographic crack grew into the grain boundary affected zone (GBAZ), activation of the critical slip ahead of the crack front and crack branching along the critical PSB occurred in all groups of the aluminum bicrystals, which reveals a crucial role of the critical slip in increasing the crack opening and triggering the slip in the adjacent grain. On the other hand, cross slip became the dominant slip mode ahead of the crystallographic crack front near the GB in a bicrystal of larger misfit angles and drove the crack along the cross PSB, a steep path with a remarkably high growth rate, until it propagated into the GBAZ. The resultant stress on the secondary slip system ahead of a crack front near the interface contributed by the internal stress due to both intergranular and intragranular incompatible strain, as well as the enhanced crack tip stress, has been evaluated and rationalizes the activation of the secondary slip systems.
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Li, C. Crystallographic fatigue crack growth in incompatible Aluminum Bicrystals: Its Dependence on Secondary Slip. Metall Trans A 23 (Suppl 1), 3293–3301 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024536
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