Print Email Facebook Twitter Fatigue crack growth in Aluminium Alloys Title Fatigue crack growth in Aluminium Alloys Author Van Kranenburg, C. Contributor Richardson, I.M. (promotor) Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Materials Science & Engineering Date 2010-03-09 Abstract Fatigue is a gradual process of local strength reduction. It is a phenomenon of damage accumulation at stress concentrations caused by fluctuating stresses and/or strains. In metals this results in microscopic cracks. These will start to grow under continued cyclic loading until final failure occurs. The process of fatigue is essentially a process of crack growth. In general the damage accumulation, i.e. crack growth, is slow in the early stages and at the end of fatigue life it accelerates very quickly towards failure. All engineering metals are sensitive to fatigue. This dissertation deals with several aspects of fatigue crack growth in aluminum alloy AA 5083 from the threshold regime to final instability. Subject fatigue crack growththresholdAA5083shear lips To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:04146b30-994a-45ef-9020-40d8ff459f9a Embargo date 2010-03-09 ISBN 9789090251707 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2010 Van Kranenburg, C. Files PDF Fatigue_crack_growth_in_A ... Alloys.pdf 3.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:04146b30-994a-45ef-9020-40d8ff459f9a/datastream/OBJ/view