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| Chapter 1 | Fatigue strength-1: Fatigue properties of austenitic stainless steels |
| Introduction; Experimental procedures; Rotary bending fatigue properties; Effect of Cr/Ni equivalent on fatigue crack initiation; Effect of aging on fatigue strength; Effects of overload and heat treatment on axial fatigue strength; Conclusions. | |
| Chapter 2 | Fatigue strength-2: Fatigue properties of maraging steel |
Introduction; Strengthening mechanism of Maraging steel; Effect of reversion austenite on fatigue strength; Effect of surface modification on fatigue strength; Improvement of fatigue strength by a combination of microstructural control and surface modification; Concluding remarks. |
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| Chapter 3 | Stress analysis of crack: Highly accurate analysis of stress intensity factors by the crack tip stress method in FEM |
Introduction; Weak points of the extrapolation methods; Crack tip stress method; Applications of the crack tip stress method; Conclusions. |
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| Chapter 4 | Fatigue crack propagation: On the history and application of the fatigue crack growth relation |
Introduction; Early research; Recent work; Applications; Concluding remarks. |
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| Chapter 5 | Surface treatment-1: Characteristics of fatigue behavior of surface modified materials |
Importance of surface modification; Fatigue behavior of ceramics coating steels in air; Corrosion fatigue behavior of ceramics coated steel; Fatigue behavior of anodized coating aluminium alloys; Fatigue crack initiation and growth of plasma-assisted duplex surface treated tool steel; Gigacycle fatigue behavior of shot-peened high-hardness steel. |
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| Chapter 6 | Surface treatment-2: Improvement in fatigue limit of a notched specimen by local plastic deformation” |
| Improvement of fatigue limit of the round bar specimen with a round V groove; Improvement of fatigue limit of plate specimen with a hole. | |
| Chapter 7 | Environmental fracture: Macro- and micro-scopic approach to fracture of high strength steel notched bars |
Introduction; Experimental program; Microscopic approach; Macroscopic approach; Conclusions. |
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| Chapter 8 | Failure analysis: A role of macrofractography in fracture analysis |
Introduction; Development of microfractography; Microfractography of hot forging dies; Microfractography of steam turbine blade; Microfractography of cargo oil tank structure of very large crude oil carrier; Concluding remarks. |
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| Chapter 9 | Engineering applications: Fatigue life evaluations for components of power generating equipments and strength evaluation of semi-conductor devices |
| Introduction; Damage detection by X-ray diffraction; Damage detection by short crack method; Dislocation generation in silicon substrates of semiconductor Devices; Molecular dynamics analysis of grain-boundary grooving in Cu film interconnects for ULSIs; Conclusion. | |
| Chapter 10 | Non-destructive monitoring: Non-destructive monitoring of fracture behavior of materials using acoustic emission |
Introduction; Acoustic emission applications in engineering materials. |
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