Driving forces for localized corrosion-to-fatigue crack transition in Al–Zn–Mg–Cu
J. T. BURNS,
J. M. LARSEN,
R. P. GANGLOFF,
J. T. BURNS
Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Search for more papers by this authorJ. M. LARSEN
Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA
Search for more papers by this authorR. P. GANGLOFF
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Search for more papers by this authorJ. T. BURNS,
J. M. LARSEN,
R. P. GANGLOFF,
J. T. BURNS
Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Search for more papers by this authorJ. M. LARSEN
Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA
Search for more papers by this authorR. P. GANGLOFF
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Search for more papers by this authorJames T. Burns. Email: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Research on fatigue crack formation from a corroded 7075-T651 surface provides insight into the governing mechanical driving forces at microstructure-scale lengths that are intermediate between safe life and damage tolerant feature sizes. Crack surface marker-bands accurately quantify cycles (Ni) to form a 10–20 μm fatigue crack emanating from both an isolated pit perimeter and EXCO corroded surface. The Ni decreases with increasing-applied stress. Fatigue crack formation involves a complex interaction of elastic stress concentration due to three-dimensional pit macro-topography coupled with local micro-topographic plastic strain concentration, further enhanced by microstructure (particularly sub-surface constituents). These driving force interactions lead to high variability in cycles to form a fatigue crack, but from an engineering perspective, a broadly corroded surface should contain an extreme group of features that are likely to drive the portion of life to form a crack to near 0. At low-applied stresses, crack formation can constitute a significant portion of life, which is predicted by coupling macro-pit and micro-feature elastic–plastic stress/strain concentrations from finite element analysis with empirical low-cycle fatigue life models. The presented experimental results provide a foundation to validate next-generation crack formation models and prognosis methods.
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