Fractal dimensions for fatigue fracture surfaces performed on micro- and meso-scale levels

Abstract

A methodology was developed to use digital photograph fracture for calculating the integral fractal dimension and spectrum fractal dimensions for two perpendicular directions. The fractal dimension value, which was discovered by the variation of the pixel size up until the fractal dimension became unchangeable, i.e., where d _\min,d _\max are the borders of the scale level used. The effectiveness of the methodology performed showed the basis of the fracture surface analyses for Al-based alloys BS L65 and 2024 T351 (analogous to Al alloy D16T), specimens of which were tested by pull-push with imitation fretting corrosion damage of the sur- face and with four-point bending after the laser peening, respectively.