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The possible role of microstructural features in determining the self-affinity of the fracture surface of a cast aluminum alloy is explored in this work. Fracture surfaces generated both in tension and impact tests were topometrically analyzed by atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and stylus profilometry. The roughness exponent exhibited the “universal” value ζ ≈ 0.78, and the correlation length ζ was of the order of the grain size. The brittle intermetallic compounds known to be important in crack initiation did not show any correlation with the self-affine parameters of the resulting fracture surfaces in this particular case.
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Hinojosa, M., Aldaco, J. Self-affine fracture surface parameters and their relationship with microstructure in a cast aluminum alloy. Journal of Materials Research 17, 1276–1282 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2002.0191
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