Cyclic fatigue crack propagation,stress corrosion, and fracture toughness behavior in pyrolytic carbon coated graphite for prosthetic heart valve application英文文献.pdfVIP

~~ ~~ Cyclic fatigue-crack propagation, stress-corrosion, and fracture-toughness behavior in pyrolytic carbon-coated graphite for prosthetic heart valve applications R. 0.Ritchie, R. H.Dauskardt, and Weikang Yu Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 A. M. Brendzel St. Iude Medical Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota 55117 Fracture-mechanics tests were performed importantly, contrary to common percep- to characterize the cyclic fatigue, stress- tion, under cyclic loading conditions the corrosion cracking, and fracture-toughness composite was found to display true (cy- behavior of a pyrolyk carbon-coated graph- clic) fatigue failure in both environments; ite composite material used in the manu- fatigue-crack growth rates (da/dN) were facture of cardiac valve prostheses. Testing seen to be a function of the 19thpower of was carried out using compact tension the stress-intensity range A K (over the C(T) samples containing atomically range to over lo-* m/cycle). As sub- sharp precracks, both in room-temperature critical crack velocities under cyclic loading air and principally in a simulated physi- were found to be many orders of magni- ological environment of 37°C Ringers lac- tude faster than those measured under tate solution. Under sustained (monotonic) equivalent monotonic loads and to occur loads, the composite exhibited resistance- at typically 45% lower stress-intensity curve behavior, with a fracture toughness levels, cyclic fatigue in pyrolytic carbon- (K,J between 1.1and 1.9M P a f i , and sub- coated graphite is reas