Binchao Liu1,2,*, Qiuyi Wang2, Rui Bao2
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.011835
Abstract With the everlasting pursuit for weight reduction, efforts are devoted to applying additively manufactured (AM) structures in aeronautic vehicles; however, anomalous fatigue crack growth (FCG) behaviors, such as deflection and branching, are recently observed in macroscale, which deviates from the predictions by classic fracture mechanics. In this work, FCG behaviors of direct energy deposited (DED) Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–1Cr–1Fe (TC18 in China) are investigated, in which fatigue crack deflections induced by combined impacts of loading and microstructures are revealed. Experiment results show that cracks are more deflected in columnar grains due to the preferred distribution of acicular a… More >