Table of Contents

Preface ix

Symposium Organizers xi

Session Chairs xv

Symposium on the Fatigue of Materials II: Advances and Emergences in Understanding

Overview I

Fundamentals of Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation: Some Thoughts 3
C. Pande

In-situ Three Dimensional (3D) X-Ray Synchrotron Tomography of Corrosion Fatigue in A17075 Alloy 17
J. Williams, X. Xiao, F. De Carlo, N. Chawla, andS. Singh

Variable Amplitude Fatigue 27
N. Ranganathan, D. Joly, and R. Leroy

High Frequency Vibration Based Fatigue Testing of Developmental Alloys 39
C. Holycross, R. Srinivasan, T. George, S. Tamirisakandala, andS. Russ

Overview II

Dwell Fatigue Design Criteria 49
T. Goswami

Probabalistic Risk Assessment of a Turbine Disk 71
T. Goswami, J. Carter, M. Thomas, and T. Fecke

Simulating Fatigue Cracks in Healthy Beam Models for Improved Identification 87
P. Cooley, J. Slater, and O. Shiryayev

Advanced Materials I

Stress-Corrosion Cracking and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Ti-6A1-4V Plates Consolidated from Low Cost Powders 105
M. Imam, P. Pao, and R. Bayles

Advanced Materials II

The High Cycle Fatigue, Damage Initiation, Damage Propagation and Growth and Final Fracture Behavior of the Aluminum Alloy 2024 119
T. Srivatsan, S. Vasudevan, andK. Manigandan

Fractographic Observations on the Mechanism of Fatigue Crack Growth in Aluminium Alloys 139
R. Alderliesten, J. Schijve, and M. Krkoska

Fatigue Predictions of Various Joints of Magnesium Alloys 153
H. Kang, K. Kari, A. Getti, A. Khosrovaneh, X. Su, L. Zhang, and Y. Lee

Fatigue Behavior of AM60B Subjected to Variable Amplitude Loading 169
H. Kang, K. Kari, A. Khosrovaneh, R. Nayaki, X. Su, L. Zhang, and Y. Lee

Other Materials

Rubber Fatigue - The Intrinsic Intricacies 181
N. Ranganathan, F. Lacroix, S. Meo, J. Poisson, and G. Berton

Mechanistic Approach towards Fatigue Initiation and Damage Propagation in Fibre Metal Laminates & Hybrid Materials 193
R. Alderliesten

Influence of Austenite Stability on Steel Low Cycle Fatigue Response 201
G. Lehnhoff, and K. Findley

The High Cycle Fatigue and Final Fracture Behavior of Alloy Steel 9310 for Use in Performance-Sensitive Applications 211
T. Srivatsan, K. Manigandan, T. Quick, and A. Freborg

Ultrasonic Corrosion Fatigue Behavior of High Strength Austenitic Stainless Steels 233
R. Ebara, Y. Yamaguchi, D. Kanei, and Y. Yamamoto

Influence of Microstructural Features on the Propagation of Microstructurally Short Fatigue Cracks in Structural Steels 243
M. Sharaf, J. Lian, N. Vajragupta, S. Münstermann, W. Bleck, B. Schmaling, A. Ma, and A. Hartmaier

Author Index 251

Subject Index 253

About the Author

T. S. Srivatsan is the Professor of Materials Science andEngineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TheUniversity of Akron. He received his graduate degrees [Masterof Science in Aerospace Engineering (M.S. 1981) and Doctor ofPhilosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D. 1984)] from GeorgiaInstitute of Technology. M. Ashraf Imam is a Research Metallurgist at NavalResearch Laboratory (NRL) pursuing basic research on materialstructure-property relationship. He also holds the position ofAdjunct Professor of Materials Science at George WashingtonUniversity in Washington, DC. Dr. Imam obtained a D.Sc.degree in Materials Science from George Washington University andan M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University in the field of Metallurgyand Materials Science. R. Srinivasan is the Professor in the Mechanicaland Materials Engineering Department, is the Director of theMaterials Science and Engineering Program at Wright StateUniversity, Dayton, Ohio. He received his PhD from the StateUniversity of New York, Stony Brook, and his MS from the Universityof Florida, Gainesville, both in Materials Science and Engineering,after completing his bachelors degree from the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Madras.