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Growth of a fatigue crack is modified according to the development of contacts between the crack faces [1,2] creating shielding, thus canceling a portion of the crack driving force. These contacts develop through a number of mechanisms, including plastic deformation, sliding of the faces with respect to each other and the collection of debris such as oxide particles [3]. Compressive stresses are created on either side of the partially contacting crack faces resulting in opening loads that must be overcome in order to apply a driving force at the crack tip. In this way, the crack tip is shielded from a portion of the applied load, thus creating the need for modification [1] of the applied stress intensity range from ΔK = KImax − KImin to ΔKeff = KImax − KIsh. Determination of the contact size and density in the region of closure from ultrasonic transmission and diffraction experiments [4] has allowed estimation of the magnitude of Kish on a crack grown under constant ΔK conditions. The calculation has since [5] been extended to fatigue cracks grown with a tensile overload block. The calculation was also successful in predicting the growth rate of the crack after reinitiation had occurred. This paper reports the further extension to the effects of a variable ΔK on fatigue crack growth. In addition, this paper presents preliminary results on detection of the tightly closed crack extension present during the growth retardation period after application of a tensile overload as well as an observation of the crack surface during reinitiation of growth that presents some interesting questions.
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Rehbein, D.K., VanWyk, L., Thompson, R.B., Buck, O. (1990). Tensile Overload and Stress Intensity Shielding Investigations by Ultrasound. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5772-8_204
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