This paper presents the results of statistical analysis of the fatigue related microstructural parameters, mainly on constituent particles and pores, in 7050-T7452 aluminum forging materials. The statistical distributions of the particle and pore area data, which were obtained from the metallographic measurements on polished surfaces, were fitted well with three-parameter lognormal functions. Comparative studies were carried out for the particle and pore size distributions between the core and periphery materials, and between the hand and die forging materials. An extreme value theory-based model was investigated to correlate the overall material particle distribution with the fatigue crack-nucleating particle distribution. The results indicated that the particle size is not the only parameter affecting the fatigue process; other parameters, such as grain size and grain orientation, are also important parameters for microstructure-based fatigue modeling. Therefore, orientation image microscopy (OIM) analyses were carried out on pristine 7050 samples, on different planes, to determine the grain orientation distributions. Finally, a preliminary OIM analysis was performed on a fractured sample to measure the misorientation angles between the grains near the crack nucleation and short crack regions. It is expected that the test observations and quantitative microstructural data could help to understand the effects of microstructure on the fatigue process and develop a microstructure-based fatigue modeling.


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    Title :

    Statistical analysis of fatigue related microstructural parameters for airframe aluminum alloys


    Additional title:

    Statistische Analyse der ermüdungsbezogenen, mikrostrukturellen Parameter für Aluminiumlegierungen für Flugzeugzellen


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    23 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 25 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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