The effect of crystal orientations on fatigue crack growth

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Abstract
A previous theory of fatigue crack growth in metals was based on an analysis of the plastic zone at the tip of a crack in terms of coplanar dislocation arrays. This analysis has been extended to the case of oblique slip planes. It is shown that, for the case of a crack growing in mode 2 through a polycrystal-line material, the average rate of growth through the differing orientations of many grains is almost identical with that obtained by the coplanar analysis.

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