Fatigue Characteristic of Aluminum Alloy Plates with Different Thickness

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The fatigue characteristic of 2124 aluminum alloy in T851 condition was investigated by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). And the result shows that, the fatigue life is closely related to the thickness of plates, this is because that different thickness of plates results in the variation of grain size, grain boundaries and substructures of alloy, which thus influence the fatigue behavior of 2124-T851 alloy. The number of grain boundaries along the propagation direction of cracks and the amount of substructures after heat treatment increase with the decline of thicknesses of 2124 alloy plates, while the grain size is reverse. However, no obvious size and dispersion changes for the precipitates. Comparatively, the fatigue resistance performance of 30mm thickness plate is better than the 40mm and 55mm thickness plates, which is due to the more profitable grain size, grain boundary and substructure.

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