Metal Fatigue: Effects of Small Defects and Nonmetallic Inclusions

1. Mechanism of fatigue in the absence of defects and inclusions 2. Stress concentration 3. Notch effect and size effect 4. Effect of size and geometry of small defects on the fatigue limit 5. Effect of hardness H v on fatigue limits of materials containing defects, and fatigue limit prediction equations 6. Effects of nonmetallic inclusions on fatigue strength 7. Bearing steels 8. Spring steels 9. Tool steels: effect of carbides 10. Effects of shape and size of artificially introduced alumina particles on 1.5Ni-Cr- Mo (En24) steel 11. Nodular cast iron and powder metal 12. Influence of Si-phase on fatigue properties of aluminium alloys 13. Ti alloys 14. Torsional fatigue 15. The mechanism of fatigue failure in the very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) life regime of N 10 7 cycles 16. Effect of surface roughness on fatigue strength 17. Martensitic stainless steels 18. Additive manufacturing: effects of defects 19. Fatigue threshold in Mode II and Mode III, ?K IIth and ?K IIIth ,and smallcrack problems 20. Contact fatigue 21. Hydrogen embrittlement 22. A new nonmetallic inclusion rating method by the positive use of the hydrogen embrittlement phenomenon 23. What is fatigue damage? A viewpoint from the observation of a low-cycle fatigue process 24. Quality control of mass production components based on defect analysis Appendix A: Instructions for a New Method of Inclusion Rating and Correlations with the Fatigue Limit Appendix B: Database of Statistics of Extreme Values of Inclusion Size ?area max Appendix C: Probability Sheets of Statistics of Extremes

Murakami, Yukitaka
Yukitaka Murakami is an Emeritus Professor at Kyushu University. His research interests have involved strength of materials, metal fatigue, fracture mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement, stress analysis and tribology. He has published 13 books and over 400 papers.