Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Subject "Crack initiation"
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INVESTIGATION OF THE SURFACE TOPOLOGY CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH FATIGUE
(2019-05-17)Metals have long been known to change their surface topology when subjected to a plastic strain. Given that a plastic zone exists at the tip of a propagating crack, it would seem natural to quantitatively study surface ... -
PREDICTING CRACK INITIATION AND EARLY CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF PURE NICKEL USING SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY ANALYSIS
(2019-08-19)Fatigue has long been studied as the most critical loading mode for man-made structures. Despite the advances in material behavior characterization and numerical calculation, many structures unexpectedly fail before their ...