Grain boundary mechanism of fatigue crack growth
Abstract
Grain boundary mechanism of fatigue crack growth
Incoming article date: 02.09.2024Overhead power line wires are affected by various external factors such as wind, ice deposits, variable temperature conditions, excessive humidity. This eventually leads to fatigue failure of the wire. It consists in the origin and slow growth of a fatigue crack. The final stage of destruction is the sudden movement of the crack at high speed. The paper proposes a model of slow crack growth, at the mouth of which there is a grain boundary. Under the influence of external stress, a section of the border is a source of vacancies. The resulting vacancy concentration gradient between the grain boundary and the free surface at the crack mouth leads to a diffusion flow of vacancies into the crack. From the solution of the diffusion problem, the magnitude of the flow and the rate of increase in the crack length are found.
Keywords: crack, grain boundary, vacancy diffusion, fatigue failure, air line, mechanical stress, vacancy flow