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Casting Porosity and Long-Life Fatigue Strength of a Cast Al-Alloy

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The sand casting process usually generates porosity that is highly detrimental especially to the fatigue behavior of Al-Si alloys. Since pores favor early fatigue crack initiation, the total fatigue life is crack-propagation-dominated and, for a given stress level, strongly depends on the initiating pore size. Here long life fatigue strengths were estimated using specimens extracted from different AlSi7Mg castings. Detailed metallographic characterization of specimen sections was carried out to determine pore size distributions and correlate it to test results. Murakami’s experimental procedure for applying the largest extreme value statistics to small defect characterization is applied and discussed.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 567-568)

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393-396

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.567-568.393

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December 2007

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Gianni Nicoletto, Radomila Konečná, P. Baicchi, V. Majerová

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Cast Al-Si Alloy, Fatigue Strength, LEVD Distribution, Shrinkage Pore

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