The formation and propagation of cracks occur through irreversible dislocation movements at notches, material defects, and grain boundaries. Since this process is partly thermally controlled, the resistance to dislocation movements at low temperatures increases. This slows both fatigue initiation and fatigue crack propagation. From recent experimental data, it can be seen that fatigue crack growth is accelerated below the fatigue transition temperature (FTT) that correlates with the ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) found by well-known fracture mechanics tests, i.e., Charpy impact, fracture toughness, and CTOD. Hence, this study investigates the relation between FTT and DBTT in S500 high-strength steel base material and welded joints at low temperatures using fatigue crack growth, fracture toughness tests as well as scanning electron microscopy. From the tests, an almost constant decrease in fatigue crack propagation rate is determined with decreasing test temperature even below the DBTT. At -100 °C, the fatigue crack propagation rate is about half of the rate observed at room temperature for both base material and weld metal.


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    Title :

    Relation between the Fatigue and Fracture Ductile-Brittle Transition in S500 Welded Steel Joints


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    Published in:

    Metals ; 12 ; 385


    Publication date :

    2022-02-23



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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