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An atomistic investigation into the nature of near threshold fatigue crack growth in aluminum alloys

Baker, Kristopher Learion  
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Warner, D.H.
2014
Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Despite decades of study, the atomic-scale mechanisms of fatigue crack growth remain elusive. Here we use the coupled atomistic–discrete dislocation method, a multiscale simulation method, to examine the influence of dislocation glide resistance on near-threshold fatigue crack growth in an aluminum alloy. The simulations indicate that the threshold increases with an increase in dislocation glide resistance, and that a transition in the crack growth direction can occur when dislocation nucleation is inhibited by other nucleated dislocations. Three main mechanisms of fatigue crack propagation are observed: cleavage along the primary slip plane, crack extension by dislocation emission, and crack extension by opening along lattice defects.

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