Micro-scale fatigue mechanisms in metals: Insights gained from small-scale experiments and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

S Lavenstein, JA El-Awady - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review paper providing a comprehensive review of insights gained from cyclic loading
discrete dislocation dynamics simulations and micro-scale fatigue experiments on …

Discrete dislocation, crystal plasticity and experimental studies of fatigue crack nucleation in single-crystal nickel

NG Prastiti, Y Xu, DS Balint, FPE Dunne - International Journal of Plasticity, 2020 - Elsevier
Dislocation configurational energy and stored energy densities are determined in discrete
dislocation and crystal plasticity modelling respectively and assessed with respect to …

The role of extrusions and intrusions in fatigue crack initiation

J Polák, V Mazánová, M Heczko, R Petráš… - Engineering Fracture …, 2017 - Elsevier
The profiles of persistent slip markings produced by uniaxial and biaxial cyclic straining in
four different polycrystalline materials with fcc structure were investigated using focused ion …

High cycle fatigue behavior of Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–3Cr–1Zr titanium alloy with bimodal microstructure

C Huang, Y Zhao, S Xin, W Zhou, Q Li, W Zeng… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, high–cycle fatigue (HCF) damage behavior of Ti–55531 alloy with bimodal
microstructure (BM) was studied at room temperature. Fatigue crack initiation and …

High cycle fatigue behavior of Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–3Cr–1Zr titanium alloy with lamellar microstructure

C Huang, Y Zhao, S Xin, C Tan, W Zhou, Q Li… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
High–cycle fatigue (HCF) damage behavior of Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–3Cr–1Zr (Ti–55531)
titanium alloy with lamellar microstructure (LM) was systematically investigated at room …

Microcrack initiation mechanism of a duplex stainless steel under very high cycle fatigue loading condition: The significance of load partitioning and micro residual …

H Fu, B Dönges, U Krupp, U Pietsch, CP Fritzen, X Yun… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Investigation on the cyclic response of metallic materials in very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) is
a challenging problem, which hinders the development of fatigue theories. To overcome this …

Fracture ab initio: A force-based scaling law for atomistically informed continuum models

JJ Möller, E Bitzek, R Janisch, H ul Hassan… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - cambridge.org
In fracture mechanics, established methods exist to model the stability of a crack tip or the
kinetics of crack growth on both the atomic and the macroscopic scale. However …

3D discrete dislocation dynamic investigations of persistent slip band formation in FCC metals under cyclical deformation

F Meng, E Ferrié, C Déprés, M Fivel - International Journal of Fatigue, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation of persistent slip bands (PSBs) at early stages of fatigue plays an important
role in fatigue damage. In order to get a better understanding of the physics involved at the …

On the transition from plastic deformation to crack initiation in the high-and very high-cycle fatigue regimes in plain carbon steels

J Bach, JJ Möller, M Göken, E Bitzek… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
It is well known that fatigue life of metallic materials involves processes at different stages.
Two main regimes can be distinguished: The first is governed by plastic deformation and …

Understanding materials microstructure and behavior at the mesoscale

AD Rollett, GS Rohrer, RM Suter - MRS Bulletin, 2015 - cambridge.org
Taking the mesoscale to mean length and time scales at which a material's behavior is too
complex to be understood by construction from the atomistic scale, we focus on three …