Quantifying microscale drivers for fatigue failure via coupled synchrotron X-ray characterization and simulations

oleh: Sven Gustafson, Wolfgang Ludwig, Paul Shade, Diwakar Naragani, Darren Pagan, Phil Cook, Can Yildirim, Carsten Detlefs, Michael D. Sangid

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-06-01

Deskripsi

Structural alloys have distinct microstructural features known as twins that are preferential sites for fatigue crack initiation and need to be better understood to mitigate catastrophic failures. Here, the authors show unusually large stress gradients near a twin boundary, using X-ray techniques and modelling.