Paper Title:

Overview of Fatigue Behaviour of Ultrafine-Grained Copper Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation

Periodical Materials Science Forum (Volumes 567 - 568)
Main Theme Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture V
Edited by Pavel Šandera
Pages 9-16
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.567-568.9
Citation Petr Lukáš et al., 2007, Materials Science Forum, 567-568, 9
Online since December, 2007
Authors Petr Lukáš, Ludvík Kunz, Milan Svoboda
Keywords Fatigue Strength, Notch Sensitivity, Stability of Grain Structure, Ultrafine Grained Copper
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Abstract

Fatigue behaviour of ultrafine-grained copper of purity 99.9 % produced by ECAP technique was studied in a broad region of stress amplitudes. Fatigue strength is by a factor of about 2 higher than that of conventional-grain-size copper in the broad region of fatigue lives from 6x103 to 2x1010 cycles. The grain structure is stable and undergoes only very marginal changes during cycling. Fatigue slip markings on specimen surface follow the trace of the shear plane of the last ECAP pass. Fatigue notch sensitivity is also higher than that of conventional-grain-size copper, but not dramatically. The cyclic stress-strain curve of studied copper is temperature insensitive, while its S-N curve is temperature dependent.