%0 Journal Article %T Ultrasonic Fatigue of Ti<sub>40</sub>Zr<sub>10</sub>Cu<sub>34</sub>Pd<sub>14</sub>Sn<sub>2</sub> Glassy Alloy %A Shin-ichi Yamaura %A Shengli Zhu %A Katsuhiro Abe %A Guoqiang Xie %J Open Journal of Metal %P 56-64 %@ 2164-277X %D 2014 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojmetal.2014.43007 %X
In this work, ultrasonic fatigue behavior of the Ti40Zr10Cu34Pd14Sn2 glassy alloy was investigated at 20 kHz at a stress ratio of R = -1. The number of cycles to failure in the S-N curve obtained in this work did not decrease again even after 107 - 108 cycles unlike previous findings for some steels. The fatigue endurance limit and the fatigue rate were ¦ÒW = 762 MPa and ¦ÒW/¦ÒB = 0.37, respectively. Fish-eye type inertial crack initiation, reported in many papers on giga-cycle fatigue testing, was not observed. A tendency for the fatigue strength of the Ti40Zr10Cu34Pd14Sn2 glassy alloy specimens to be divided into two groups was observed, that is, specimens with a short fatigue lifetime (<106 cycles) with distinct cast defects as crack initiation sites and the other specimens with a long fatigue lifetime (>106 cycles). This may have been caused by accidental nucleation of micro-defects such as impurities, voids and precipitates in the glassy rod specimens during the casting.
%K Ultrasonic Fatigue %K Metallic Glass %K Fracture %K Casting %K Biomaterial %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49204