Effect of carburizing treatment on the “fish eye” crack growth for a low alloyed chromium.pdf

Materials Science Engineering A 559 (2013) 790–797Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirectMaterials Science Engineering A0921-50 http://d n Corr E-mjournal homepage: /locate/mseaEffect of carburizing treatment on the ‘‘fish eye’’ crack growth for a low alloyed chromium steel in very high cycle fatigueZhi Yong Huang a,b,n, Daniele Wagner b, Qing Yuan Wang a, Claude Bathias b a Sichuan University, No. 29 Jiuyanqiao Wangjiang Road, Chengdu, 610064, China b Universite? Paris Ouest Nanterre La De?fense, 50 Rue de Sevres 92410 Ville d’Avray, Francea r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 28 April 2012 Received in revised form 4 September 2012 Accepted 7 September 2012 Available online 26 September 2012 Keywords: VHCF SEM Crack path Fatigue dissipation93/$ - see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A /10.1016/j.msea.2012.09.025 esponding author. Tel./fax.:0086 28 8540691 ail address: huangzy@ (Z. Yong Hua b s t r a c t A low alloyed chromium steel with a carburizing treatment is studied in VHCF regime with the help of an ultrasonic fatigue machine working at 20 kHz frequency. An infrared camera is applied to study the thermal dissipation during the crack growth period. The number of cycles at the second crack growth stage could be determined by the temperature evolution. The crack propagation model is coupled with thermal dissipation, which permits to estimate the temperature evolution in crack propagation period on specimen surface with the help of the numerical method FEM. The comparison between the results of test and simulation shows that the model is in agreement with the test in the second period of crack propagation. 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.1. Introduction In practice, service life of mechanical components often exceeds 107 cycles which is in the so called Very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF) regime. The ultrasonic fatigue test machine has been applied to investigate the fatigue behavior with a high frequency of 20 kHz [1]. The frequency e