Campbell Laird(Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
,
University of Pennsylvania
,
Philadelphia
,
PA 19104-6272
,
USA)Pedro Peralta(Center for Materials Science
,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
,
MaU Stop K765
,
Los Alamos
,
NM 87545-0001
,
USA)
材料科学技术（英文）
The mechanisms of fatigue crack propagation are breifly reviewed in relation to Professor McClintock's contributions to the early development of the field. The most securely established understanding has been obtained for those mechanisms of propagation involving plasticity-inducedgeometrical changes to the crack tip during tensile and compressive straining (the plastic blunting process). The roles of more complex factors in controlling the kinetics of crack propagation,which cause the magnitude of the Paris exponent to exceed 2, remain to be elucidated. Recentlyobtained results revealing the interconnection between the slip behaviour at the crack tip, theplastic blunting process and the dislocation structures present in the material before the crackencounters them are reported.
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