Micro- and Macro-Approach to the Fatigue Crack Propagation in High-Strength Pearlitic Steel Wires

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This paper analyzes how the cold drawing process influences the fatigue behaviour of eutectoid steel, with special emphasis on the role of microstructural changes induced during such a manufacturing process. Fatigue cracks are transcollonial and exhibit a preference for fracturing pearlitic lamellae, with non-uniform crack opening displacement values, micro-discontinuities, branchings, bifurcations and frequent local deflections that create microstructural roughness. The net fatigue surface increases with cold drawing due to the higher angle of crack deflections.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 348-349)

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681-684

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September 2007

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