Fatigue crack growth stainless steels

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Fig. 6. Fatigue crack growth data for stable austenite stainless steels at 295, 76,...

Fig. 7. Fatigue crack growth data for two unstable stainless steels, which exhibit temperature-independent behavior, although martensitic transformations occur during fatigue loading at 76 and 4 K.

Fig. 4. Fatigue crack growth rate properties of stainless steel base metals and weldments at 297 K.

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A fatigue crack growth test consists of a plate made of an austenitic stainless steel 316L(N) containing a semi-elliptical surface notch subjected to a cyclic bending moment at a load ratio R = 0.1. Two tests were performed at 650°C [3,4]. The experimental setup is shown in Fig. 3. 

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