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Plane bending fatigue behavior of interstitial-free steel at room temperature

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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 97 Issue 11

Abstract

Interstitial-free steels are widely used as thin sheet for automobile external panels. For this type of application, essential properties of the steel are deep-drawability and stretch-formability. However, low-strength interstitial-free steel is nearly pure iron and work on fatigue fracture behavior of this steel might be adopted as a basic study to understand the behavior of high-strength steels used for structural components. In this study, the fatigue fracture behavior of low-strength interstitial-free steel has been studied at room temperature in air and in an argon atmosphere. Fractographic observations on fatigue fracture surfaces reveal a mixed type of fracture mode (intergranular and transgranular cracking) for all specimens. The major portion of intergranular fracture has been found at the regions of low and medium crack lengths. Further increase in the crack length causes a decrease in the proportion of intergranular cracking and, finally, the fracture mode becomes completely transgranular. At the same test temperature, the proportion of intergranular fracture drastically decreased when the test was carried out in the argon atmosphere.

Keywords: IF steel; Fatigue; Crack nucleation; Intergranular cracking; Transgranular fracture
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Received: 2006-01-24
Accepted: 2006-06-18
Published Online: 2022-01-21

© 2006 Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2006-0243
Keywords for this article
IF steel; Fatigue; Crack nucleation; Intergranular cracking; Transgranular fracture

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