Fatigue crack growth in an aluminum alloy: Avalanches and coarse graining to growth laws

In fatigue fracture the crack growth is slow and in many materials exhibits apparent self-similarity as expressed by the dependence of the growth velocity on a stress intensity factor that grows with the crack size. We study the intermittency of fatigue crack dynamics in aluminium alloys by optical...

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Main Authors: Ivan V. Lomakin, Tero Mäkinen, Kim Widell, Juha Savolainen, Sebastian Coffeng, Juha Koivisto, Mikko J. Alava
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-11-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L042029