Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
The X-ray fractographic technique was applied to fatigue fracture surfaces of tempered AISI 4340 steel. Residual stresses and half-value breadths were measured by the X-ray diffraction.
In the present paper, the residual stresses and plastic strains on fatigue fracture surfaces and some parameters in the fracture mechanics were investigated. A simple model of mechanics was proposed to explain these experimental results.
This work was supported by NSF-MRL Grant DMR-8216972 and partly by U.S. Army Research Grant DAAG-29-85-K-0134.