An Experimental Study for Low-Cycle Fatigue Crack Propagation of Glidcop Al-15

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Experiments have been conducted on an oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) copper Glidcop Al-15 under a range of cyclic stress-amplitudes at room temperature. Special specimens containing an artificial small hole of various diameters, i.e. 150, 200 and 300 μm, were used. Propagation process of surface cracks in the various holed specimens was recorded to investigate the fatigue crack growth rate. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used for the observation of the fracture surface after failure specimens. The well-known Coffin-Manson low-cycle fatigue relationship was substantially shown through the results. An equation between the growth rate of the surface crack and the stress amplitude for Gidcop Al-15 was carried out. The experiment proved that prior fatigue history makes little influence on the subsequent crack propagation property under low-cycle condition.

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