The definition of the critical levels of microstructural damage that can lead to the propagation of fatigue cracks under high-cycle fatigue loading conditions is a major concern with respect to the structural integrity of turbine-engine components in military aircraft. The extremely high cyclic frequencies characteristic of in-flight loading spectra, coupled with the presence of small cracks resulting from fretting or foreign object damage (FOD), necessitate that a defect-tolerant design approach be based on a crack-propagation threshold. The present study is focused on characterizing such near-threshold fatigue-crack propagation behaviour in a Ti-6Al-4V blade alloy (with approximately 60% primary alpha in a matrix of lamellar alpha+beta), at high frequencies (20-1500 Hz) and load ratios (0.1-0.95) in both ambient temperature air and vacuum environments. Results indicate that 'worst-case' thresholds, measured on large cracks, may be used as a practical lower bound to describe the onset of naturally initiated small-crack growth and the initiation and early growth of small cracks emanating from sites of simulated FOD.
High-cycle fatigue of Ti-6Al-4V
Hochlastwechsel-Ermüdung von Ti-6Al-4V
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures ; 22 , 7 ; 621-631
1999
11 Seiten, 31 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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