Abstract
In this chapter, we present a metallurgical–mechanical mechanism-based strategy for the design of fatigue-resistant metals. Specifically, we elucidate the importance of the metallurgical microstructure in a mechanical singular field (crack tip). The fatigue crack growth resistance is controlled through the crack tip “plasticity”, and the effect of the associated microstructure becomes significant when the crack is “small (or short)”. More importantly, the resistance to small crack growth determines a major portion of fatigue life and strength. Therefore, the microstructural crack tip plasticity is a key breakthrough to the development of fatigue-resistant metals. As successful examples of this concept, we introduce the effects of grain refinement, martensitic transformation, strain aging, dislocation planarity enhancement, and microstructure heterogeneity on small fatigue crack growths.
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1 Introduction: Small Crack Problem
It has been generally recognized that resistance to small fatigue crack growth dominates the fatigue life and strength in numerous metallic structural components. “Small (short) cracks”Footnote 1 have been classified as mechanically small cracks, microstructurally small cracks, physically small cracks, and chemically small cracks (Ritchie and Lankford 1986), the details of which are listed in Table 10.1. In this chapter, we note the growth of mechanically and microstructurally small cracks. We first indicate that the growth behaviors of mechanically and microstructurally small cracks are completely different from those of large cracks. Representative examples of the small crack growth characteristics are shown in Fig. 10.1. The small crack growth rate at a certain stress intensity factor range (ΔK) cannot be obtained through the extrapolation of a large crack growth rate curve in an identical material (Suresh and Ritchie 1984) (Fig. 10.1(a)). Furthermore, the threshold stress intensity factor range (ΔKth) for small crack growth is hardness-sensitive, unlike in the case of large cracks (Tanaka et al. 1981; Fukumura et al. 2015) (Fig. 10.1(b)). Therefore, we need specific mechanical and microstructural design strategies to improve the resistance to small fatigue crack growth, which differs from that for large crack growth resistance.
Small crack growth occurs through two routes: (A) dislocation–emission-induced crack tip deformation and (B) damage accumulation along a microstructural feature near a crack tip. Specifically, in case (A), when a crack tip opens, a dislocation emission occurs at the crack tip. Such a dislocation emission allows for a plastic crack opening, which advances the crack tip position (Fig. 10.2(a)). Even after a crack closes during an unloading and compression process, the crack tip position does not move backward. Hence, one cycle of crack opening and closing increases the crack length, the degree of which is geometrically determined based on the number of emitted dislocations. In this regime, the lowest crack growth rate is an atomistic scale corresponding to one dislocation emission from the crack tip. In case (B), the role of the dislocations changes, namely, a local accumulation of dislocations causes micro-void or micro-crack formations near and/or at a crack tip through an increase in the local stress, the formation of vacancies, and the formation of a persistent slip band, which is referred to as damage accumulation and evolution. A damage-driven fatigue crack formation causes a discontinuous crack growth, which is strongly dependent on the microstructure of the crack tip (Fig. 10.2(b)). As understood from these basic mechanisms, the primary key to controlling the fatigue crack growth is crack tip plasticity. More specifically, the factors affecting the crack growth rate are divided into (1) resistance to plastic deformation, (2) resistance to damage/crack formation, (3) the crack tip deformation geometry, and (4) the crack closure effect. The first factor is directly associated with resistance to dislocation nucleation at a crack tip and to dislocation motion near a crack tip. The second factor is related to how the dislocation motion results in damage, such as vacancies, micro-voids, or micro-cracks. The third factor indicates the crystallographic relationship between the crack growth rate and crack tip/wake deformation. The fourth factor is a decrease in the actual stress or stress intensity factor at a crack tip, which is associated with a plastic zone evolution that realizes a lower crack tip stress than the elastic solution estimated based on the remote stress and crack shape and/or size. Considering the plasticity-controlled factors, herein we introduce mechanical–metallurgical mechanism-based strategies for controlling small fatigue crack growth, as schematically shown in Fig. 10.3.
2 Grain Refinement: Characteristic Distributions of Dislocation Barrier and Source
First, we introduce the grain refinement effects on small crack growth, as well as a characteristic effect of ultrafine grains (UFG). As is well known, grain refinement increases the yield strength, which follows a Hall–Petch relationship (Tsuji et al. 2002). The enhancement of the yield strength and associated increase in hardness also increases the fatigue strength (Fig. 10.4(a)), which stems from the grain boundary acting as a dislocation barrier. Also note that the fatigue life of UFG steel at each stress amplitude is longer than that of coarse grained (CG) steel even after normalization by hardness (Fig. 10.4(b)), which implies an activation of extra factors. One possible factor is that grain boundaries can act as a dislocation source in ultrafine-grained materials owing to a lack of mobile dislocations in the grain interior. This effect alters the plastic strain gradient near the crack tip (Figs. 10.4(c, d)), which may affect the plasticity-induced crack closure (PICC) behavior. Moreover, the crack surface roughness, which also affects the crack growth resistance, is dependent on the grain size (Figs. 10.4(e, f)). In this section, we show the possible effects of a grain refinement on small fatigue crack growth in terms of the grain boundary roles as a dislocation source and barrier.Footnote 2
The crack tip plasticity interacts with the grain boundary, and its degree increases with a decrease in the distance between the crack tip and the grain boundary, which decelerates the crack growth. Hence, when the PICC effect is not considered, the rate of crack growth decreases until the crack grows to the first grain boundary, and then increases after the crack penetrates the boundary. As schematically shown in Fig. 10.5(a), the grain refinement enhances the grain boundary effect (sharply decreasing the crack growth rate), although the effect only occurs for a very small crack length or low stress intensity factor range. Furthermore, UFG metals have been recognized to show plasticity-induced softening and subsequent plastic deformation propagation. When the grain size is large (CG metal), plastic deformation around the crack tip occurs through dislocation emissions from the crack tip and dislocation multiplication from the Frank–Read sources. Compared to this deformation in CG metals, UFG metals can show a different dislocation behavior owing to a low density of mobile dislocations in the grain interior (Huang et al. 2006). Specifically, once the crack tip plasticity initiates in UFG metals, grains surrounding the crack tip become highly distorted plastically because plasticity-induced softening occurs through mobile dislocation emissions and multiplication. The grain distortion associated with the accumulation and pile-up of geometrically necessary dislocations causes dislocation emissions from the grain boundaries to the neighboring grain, which results in the propagation of a grain-scale deformation. A chain reaction of the plastic deformation in UFG metals may decrease the gradient of plastic strain near the crack tip. Because a plastic strain gradient is one of the origins of PICC, the propagation of a deformation across the grain boundaries may decrease the contribution of PICC in UFG metals (Lin et al. 2019). Consequently, in terms of crack tip plasticity, grain refinement has an ambivalent role2 in small crack growth because a grain boundary acting as dislocation barrier decelerates such growth, although when acting as a source it can accelerate the crack growth.
3 Plasticity-Induced Transformation: Thermodynamic-Based Design
3.1 Geometrical Effect on Crack Tip Deformation
In terms of crack tip plasticity, a martensitic transformation involving transformation dislocations can alter the crack growth behavior. Figure 10.6 shows an example of a transformation effect. The Fe–30Mn–6Al alloy in the figure shows no martensitic transformation and only dislocation slips. In contrast, the Fe–30Mn–6Si and Fe–30Mn–4Si–2Al alloys show a martensitic transformation from face-centered cubic (FCC: γ) to hexagonal close-packed (HCP: ε) structures. One difference between the Fe–30Mn–6Si and Fe–30Mn–4Si–2Al alloys is the plasticity of the HCP phase; namely, the HCP phase of the Fe–30Mn–6Si alloy shows brittle-like cracking, whereas that of the Fe–30Mn–4Si–2Al alloy is ductile (Nikulin et al. 2013). The crack growth rate of the Fe–30Mn–4Si–2Al alloy, which involves a γ-ε transformation, is significantly lower than that of the other alloys (Li et al. 2015; Ju et al. 2016), as shown in Fig. 10.6. More specifically, a “ductile” γ-ε martensitic transformation decelerates the crack growth. Considering these facts, two underlying mechanisms of crack growth deceleration can be proposed. The first factor is reversible γ ↔ ε transformation-induced plasticity (Sawaguchi et al. 2008, 2015), which can suppress the fatigue damage evolution associated with a vacancies and persistent slip bands near a crack tip (Ju et al. 2016). The second factor is a geometrical effect of the transformation dislocation motion forming the HCP structure (Ju et al. 2017).
Herein, we introduce a model for explaining the second factor, as schematically shown in Fig. 10.7. When a crack tip opens through a slip of perfect dislocations, repeated symmetric dislocation emissions occur at the crack tip, which causes fatigue crack growth for every cycle (Fig. 10.2(a)). In contrast, when the stacking fault energy is sufficiently low to induce a ε-martensitic transformation, the emission of a leading partial dislocation plays a role in the initial crack opening. To maintain the HCP structure, a second emission of a leading partial cannot occur on the identical slip plane. Furthermore, neighboring slip planes also cannot act as active planes for partial dislocation motions (if the partials move on the neighboring planes, the structure changes to an FCC twin.). Therefore, a second emission of leading partials must occur on the second-neighboring planes, which causes a crack wake deformation, and not a crack tip deformation. A crack wake deformation results in a crack opening, but does not contribute to Mode I crack growth. Because a portion of ε martensite can reversely transform during an unloading and compression loading process, the effect of the γ-ε martensitic transformation occurs repeatedly. This model suggests that a γ-ε martensitic transformation at a crack tip alters the ratio between the crack tip opening displacement and the rate of crack growth, which decelerates the crack growth, particularly in strain-controlled fatigue tests. In other words, the use of a group motion of dislocations decelerates the crack growth rate, the effect of which can be enhanced when the deformation-induced phase involves long-range periodic structures.
3.2 Transformation-Induced Hardening and Lattice Expansion
Figure 10.8(c) shows S–N diagrams of various types of austenitic steels with a small notch. All of the fatigue limits correspond to limits of fatigue crack non-propagation. As introduced later, Fe–23Mn–0.5C steel has been recognized to show a superior non-propagation limit compared to conventional austenitic steels, which can be used as a reference material for comparing the fatigue limit and strength. Note here that Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel shows a martensitic transformation from FCC to a body-centered cubic structure (γ-αʹ martensitic transformation). The fatigue limit and strength of Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel are higher than those of the other types of steels, including Fe–23Mn–0.5C steel, even after normalization based on the hardness determined prior to the fatigue tests. As shown in Fig. 10.9, the region surrounding the crack in Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel is fully covered with αʹ martensite after the fatigue test even at the fatigue limit. In this context, the transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) causes two phenomena that enhance the resistance to small fatigue crack growth: (1) work hardening (Ogawa et al. 2017, 2018) and (2) a transformation-induced crack closure (TICC) (Mei and Morris 1991; Mayer et al. 1995). The former is associated with a hard martensite phase and has been well recognized as having a TRIP effect during tensile tests, where the uniform elongation increases. The latter is associated with a lattice expansion arising from a close-packed structure (FCC) to a non-close-packed structure (BCC), which assists with the PICC. The TICC cannot act in the case of stress-controlled fatigue tests of Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel because a γ-αʹ martensitic transformation occurs not only near a crack but also in non-cracked regions; namely, a homogeneous transformation cannot cause a crack tip constraint under a stress control condition (only the specimen volume increases). Therefore, the first fact, i.e., work hardening, is the primary factor triggering the superior resistance to fatigue crack growth in Fe–19–Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel. Correspondingly, when normalized based on the hardness evaluated after the fatigue tests at the fatigue limit, the fatigue limit of Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel is lower than that of Fe–23Mn–0.5C steel (Figs. 10.8 (c) and (e)). By contrast, Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.14C metastable austenitic steel, in which the extra carbon stabilizes the austenite (Ogawa et al. 2017), shows a lower fatigue limit than that of Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.05C steel even when the fatigue limit is normalized based on the hardness prior to the fatigue test (Figs. 10.8 (c) and (d)), whereas the fatigue limit normalized by the hardness after the test in Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.14C steel is higher (Fig. 10.8(e)). These facts indicate that the higher fatigue limit normalized based on the hardness after the test in Fe–19Cr–8Ni–0.14C steel is attributed to the TICC associated with local transformation around the fatigue crack, and not to the effect of the work hardening. These results suggest that, to maximize the work hardening and TICC, the austenite stability must be optimized to induce a martensitic transformation locally around the crack while avoiding such an occurrence in a non-cracked region of the specimen.
4 Dislocation Planarity: Stress Shielding and Mode II Crack Growth
Dislocation planarity is one of the most intrinsic characteristics controlling a long-range stress field and is enhanced by lowering the stacking fault energy and presence of short-range ordering, which increases the work hardening capability. Therefore, an enhancement of the dislocation planarity improves the tensile properties as long as no brittle cracking occurs; however, under fatigue, the dislocation planarity has both advantages and disadvantages regarding crack growth, which arise from the behaviors of the surface and interior of the specimen.
As a specific example, Fig. 10.10 shows a case of high-nitrogen austenitic steel with a chemical composition of Fe–25Cr–1 N that exhibits highly planar dislocation arrays owing to Cr–N coupling. As shown in Figs. 10.10 (a) and (b), the fatigue limit of high-nitrogen steel is significantly higher than that of Fe–Cr–Ni austenitic stainless steel without interstitials, although surprisingly, the steel has more potential in terms of small crack growth resistance. In fact, even at a stress amplitude above the fatigue limit, crack growth of the main crack stops temporarily; however, a surface subcrack initiation at the main crack tip and a subsequent coalescence restart the growth of the main crack. Hence, the ease of subcrack initiation on the surface deteriorates the resistance to fatigue crack growth, which is attributed to a slip localization. In high-nitrogen steel, the dislocation motion is atomistically limited on the specific slip plane, as shown in Figs. 10.10 (d) and (e). Because a specimen surface is basically under a plane stress condition, a highly planar slip near the surface causes a localized out-of-plane plastic deformation through a dislocation emission to the surface during the tensile loading process. The localized out-of-plane deformation results in a surface relief that acts as a stress concentration site, bringing about another planar-slip-driven out-of-plane slip deformation with a different sign of dislocation during the unloading/compression process. The repetition of this process causes a dislocation dipole formation and persistent slip bands, which assists in fatigue crack initiation and associated crack growth. However, when a dislocation planar array exists in the interior of a specimen, the dislocation motion stops at a barrier, such as Lomer–Cottrell sessile dislocations, which results in a strong pile-up stress (Fig. 10.11(a)). Such pile-up stress prevents further dislocation motion on the identical slip plane during tensile loading, as shown in Figs. 10.11 (b)–(d), the effect of which has been recognized to suppress crack growth along the slip plane (Awatani et al. 1979). Subsequently, the pile-up stress enables reversible motion of the dislocations and associated stacking faults during unloading/compression process (c.f. Figure 10.12), which also enhances resistance to crack growth. Moreover, the dislocation pile-up stress can act as a shield for the tensile stress at the crack tip, which suppresses crack opening; in particular, Mode I crack growth is also prevented by the enhancement of dislocation planarity. Therefore, if the surface crack initiation can be suppressed, the enhancement of dislocation planarity has a significant potential to improve the resistance to a small crack growth in austenitic steel with a high-nitrogen content.
Similar to this context, an equiatomic Fe–Cr–Ni–Mn–Co high-entropy alloy, which is a recently noted material, also shows a similar behavior (Suzuki et al. 2018). High-entropy alloy has been reported to exhibit a low stacking fault energy (30 ± 5 mJ/m2 (Okamoto et al. 2016)) and a short-range ordering (Ding et al. 2018), thereby resulting in a highly planar slip in fatigued specimens. Correspondingly, once the small crack growth stops, it restarts through a crack coalescence (Suzuki et al. 2018), which is the same characteristic found in high-nitrogen steel. As mentioned, lowering the stacking fault energy is essential to improving the tensile properties, and the short-range ordering is expected to be used for next-generation high-strength alloys such as high-nitrogen steel and high-entropy alloys. Therefore, controlling the dislocation planarity and its associated surface subcrack initiation is a key to realizing a drastic improvement in the fatigue crack growth resistance in high-tensile strength alloys.
5 Kinetic Effects of Solute Atoms on Crack Tip Plasticity
5.1 Strain-Age Hardening
The occurrence of strain-age hardening at a crack tip has been recognized to improve the non-propagation limit of fatigue cracking. For instance, solute Mg in Al alloys (Shikama et al. 2012; Zeng et al. 2012; Takahashi et al. 2015) and solute carbon in steel (Li et al. 2016, 2017b, 2018; Kishida et al. 2018), both of which trigger strain aging, significantly improve the ΔKth of small crack growth. Figure 10.13 shows an example of the carbon effect on ΔKth in steel. The occurrence of dynamic strain aging can be confirmed in terms of the stress–strain response under tension. Interstitial free (IF) steel, which does not contain solute carbon, shows a smooth stress–strain curve, regardless of the strain rate (Fig. 10.13(a)). In contrast, Fe–0.017C steel, in which all carbon exists in a solute form, shows a serrated flow, particularly at low strain rates (Fig. 10.13(b)). The occurrence of a serrated flow is evidence of the contribution of dynamic strain aging to the stress–strain response. The degree of a serrated flow increases with an increase in the solute carbon from 0.002 to 0.017 mass% (Li et al. 2017b). Correspondingly, ΔKth increases with an increase in the solute carbon concentration, as shown in Fig. 10.13(c). To explain the details shown in Fig. 10.13(a), herein we introduce an empirical relationship between the hardness and ΔKth proposed by Murakami (Murakami 2019).
where HV is the Vickers hardness, \(\sqrt{area}\) is the square root of the projected area of the initial defects, such as pre-cracks or inclusions. The effectiveness of the Murakami equation has already been demonstrated for the ΔKth predictions of carbon steel with different initial notch geometries, and the prediction error was determined to be less than 10% (Li et al. 2016; Murakami 2019). The solid and dotted lines in Fig. 10.13(c) indicate the predicted values and their 10% errors, respectively. The measured ΔKth of IF steel is within the ± 10% error band shown in Fig. 10.13(c), whereas the four types of Fe–C steel with different carbon contents show a higher ΔKth than the predicted value of + 10%. Furthermore, the difference between the predicted and measured ΔKth values increases with an increase in the carbon content. These facts indicate that the dynamic strain aging arising from solute carbon occurs particularly in the plastic zone, which increases the crack tip hardness during fatigue tests. As a result, the presence of solute carbon overcomes the conventionally known hardness–ΔKth relation.
5.2 Effects of i–s Interaction
A problematic issue in utilizing the effect of strain-age hardening is a limitation of the solute diffusivity at room temperature. For example, normal austenitic steel does not show dynamic strain-age hardening even if the steel contains carbon or nitrogen in the solute because their diffusivity is insufficient for μm-scale atom motions. This problem can be solved using attractive interactions of interstitial–substitutional atoms (i–s). As introduced in Sect. 10.4, Cr–N interaction enhances the dislocation planarity, whereas another type of i–s interaction, i.e., Mn–C, assists strain-age hardening in austenitic steel at room temperature (Koyama et al. 2018a). Figure 10.14(a) shows an S–N diagram of Fe–23Mn–0.5C and Fe–30Mn–3Si–3Al austenitic steels. Both types of steels show deformation twinning and a dislocation glide, although only Fe–23Mn–0.5C steel demonstrates dynamic strain-age hardening even at room temperature. Fe–30Mn–3Si–3Al does not show non-propagating fatigue cracks, whereas Fe–23Mn–0.5C clearly does, as indicated in Figs. 10.14(b–d); namely, the Mn–C coupling improves the limit of fatigue crack non-propagation through a triggering of the dynamic strain-age hardening. Evaluating the ΔKth of Fe–23Mn–0.5C steel, the non-propagation limit of a fatigue crack is higher than that of high-nitrogen austenitic steel. According to the ECCI characterization (Figs. 10.15(d, e)), a high dislocation density was confirmed at the tip of the non-propagating fatigue crack. The high dislocation density increases the crack tip hardness, which thereby improves the non-propagation limit of the fatigue crack. Hence, the use of i-s attractive interactions for strain-age hardening can be applied as a new alloy design strategy for the development of materials with a high resistance to high-cycle fatigue.
6 Effect of Microstructural Hardness Heterogeneity: Discontinuous Crack Tip Plasticity
The final example of a mechanical–metallurgical mechanism-based strategy is the use of a microstructural hardness heterogeneity. In a general sense, the introduction of soft portions is speculated to decrease the resistance to fatigue crack propagation; however, in a controlled case, the soft portion can increase the resistance to fatigue crack propagation owing to an enhancement of PICC (Li et al. 2017a), an example of which is shown in Fig. 10.16. Figure 10.16(a) shows an RD-IPF map of hot-rolled Fe–30Mn–3Si–3Al steel. Because of the recrystallization during hot-rolling, the grain size distribution appears heterogeneously. Moreover, the degree of plastic deformation is also heterogeneous (Fig. 10.16(b)). The partially fine grain and high dislocation density increase the yield and tensile strength, as shown in Fig. 10.16(c). The increase in tensile strength increases the fatigue limit (Fig. 10.16(d); however, the fatigue limits normalized by the respective tensile strength of the as-hot-rolled and solution-treated steel were 0.36 and 0.32, respectively. Furthermore, the as-hot-rolled steel showed a non-propagating fatigue crack, whereas the solution-treated steel did not. An image of the non-propagating fatigue crack is shown in Fig. 10.17(a), and the crack is presented in the grain interior (Fig. 10.17(b). For further characterization of the crack, the specimen surface was slightly polished mechanically, as shown in Figs. 10.17 (c) and (d), and the identical region surrounding the crack tip was analyzed using EBSD (Figs. 10.17(e, f)). The crack tip was observed in the grain interior, as indicated in Fig. 10.17(d), and the crack propagated from a highly distorted region to a less distorted region, shown in Fig. 10.17(f). In other words, the crack propagated from the soft to hard regions, and stopped within the grain interior. According to a mechanical simulation using a Dugdale model, the plasticity mismatch at the interface of the soft and hard regions can enhance the effect of the PICC (Li et al. 2017a), which assists in the non-propagation of fatigue cracking. Therefore, even if the hardness or tensile strength is macroscopically identical, control of the microstructural hardness heterogeneity can improve resistance to fatigue crack growth.
7 Summary
In this chapter, we introduced mechanical–metallurgical mechanism-based strategies for improving the crack growth resistance in terms of the crack tip plasticity. Figure 10.18 schematically summarizes the factors that can enhance the resistance to small crack growth. Although respective factors were separately introduced, such factors interact with each other. For instance, the factors hardening the crack tip region definitely affect the behavior of a crack wake deformation. Therefore, thus far, a prediction of the small crack growth has been recognized to be a difficult issue. However, the coupling of multiple mechanisms can realize unexpected fatigue resistance through synergetic effects. In fact, we succeeded in presenting an outstanding fatigue resistance associated with the activation of multi-mechanisms in steel (Koyama et al. 2017c). We believe that there is a large frontier for fatigue-resistant material development on the design of a mechanical–metallurgical mechanism-based microstructure.
In addition, uncertain problems remain regarding small crack growth. Mode II type crack growth associated with damage (lattice defect) accumulation is one remaining unknown, but has frequently been observed in various types of metal including steel and titanium alloy (Habib et al. 2017; Maenosono et al. 2018, 2019; Mizumachi et al. 2019). The ease of Mode II crack growth affects the crack roughness (crack growth path), and discontinuous crack growth, and highly disturbs the mechanical laws of fatigue crack growth. The kinetic effects of solute atoms also still contain numerous uncertainties, which affect the temperature and frequency dependence of fatigue resistance. In fact, the importance of such kinetic effects has recently increased owing to the occurrence of hydrogen-accelerated fatigue crack growth in metal used for a hydrogen-related infrastructure (Murakami and Matsuoka 2010; Onishi et al. 2016). The problems of Mode II crack growth and kinetic effects of the solutes are clearly a mechanical–metallurgical issue, which is expected to be solved through the cooperation of mechanical engineers and metallurgists.
Notes
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In this paper, short and small cracks, which have been used for two- and three-dimensional cracks, are not distinguished for discussion.
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In this paper, we do not show the effect of grain size on crack roughness, because of the limitation of pages. Please see the references (Suresh and Ritchie 1982) Suresh S, Ritchie RO. A geometric model for fatigue crack closure induced by fracture surface roughness. Metallurgical Transactions A. 1982;13:1627–31, (Niendorf et al. 2010) Niendorf T, Rubitschek F, Maier HJ, Canadinc D, Karaman I. On the fatigue crack growth–microstructure relationship in ultrafine-grained interstitial-free steel. Journal of Materials Science. 2010;45:4813–21, (Lin et al. 2019) Lin X, Koyama M, Gao S, Tsuji N, Tsuzaki K, Noguchi H. Resistance to mechanically small fatigue crack growth in ultrafine grained interstitial-free steel fabricated by accumulative roll-bonding. International Journal of Fatigue. 2019;118:117–25.
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This work was supported by Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM: JPMXP0112101000) of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan, and JSPS KAKENHI (JP16H06365; JP20H02457).
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Koyama, M., Noguchi, H., Tsuzaki, K. (2022). Microstructural Crack Tip Plasticity Controlling Small Fatigue Crack Growth. In: Tanaka, I., Tsuji, N., Inui, H. (eds) The Plaston Concept. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7715-1_10
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