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Bing Yang1, Yifan Li1, Yahang Qin1
1State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China.
Abstract:
In this study, fatigue crack tests of CuNi2Si alloys using the replica technique under symmetrical tensile-compression loading, and rotational-bending loading were carried out with the same nominal stress amplitude. Observation and analysis results indicate that under different load types, the cracks display a trend of slow initiation growth and then rapid growth. The critical point is identified at the approximate value of 0.8 of the fatigue life fraction, and the crack growth rate of the sample under tensile-compression load is approximately an order of magnitude higher than that under rotational-bending load, resulting in the average life of the former being significantly shorter than the latter. Combining the observation results of the fractographical analysis and the surface-etched sample replica film, it can be seen that whether it is a tensile-compression load or a rotational-bending load, cracks mainly propagate in intergranular mode after initiation.
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