Abstract
It was found that crack opening stress intensities are not constant after holding for various times in the unloaded state for iron and a sequence of Fe-Si binary alloys. The crack opening level decreased with time first because of asperity creep and substructure relaxation, and then increased again with time due to reverse plastic zone relaxation allowing a new set of asperities to come into contact. It is demonstrated that the crack closure phenomenon is not only a result of residual plasticity, oxidation and asperities, but also is due to asperity creep and reverse plastic zone relaxation at the crack tip for low strength materials.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 77-87 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1985 |