Self-Affine Analysis of Fractures Surfaces of an Aluminum Alloy Using Fractographic Techniques

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We report the self-affine analysis on fracture surfaces of an A319-type aluminum alloy with different modification and refinement treatments, broken both in Charpy impact and cyclic impulse tests. The in-plane and out-of-plane Hurst exponent as well as the correlation length are obtained using quantitative fractographic techniques. It is found that the Hurst exponent, ζ, has a value of about 0.8 and is not influenced neither by the crack propagation modes nor by the microstructural condition. The self-affine correlation length is found to be related to the grain size resulting from the refining and modifying treatments applied to the alloy.

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