CYCLIC DEFORMATION OF COARSE GRAINED POLYCRYSTALLINE PURE Al——Ⅱ.FRACTURE SURFACE MORPHOLOGY

SEM photos for very coarse grained and high ductile polycrystalline pure Al show followingcharacteristics:A few fracture sources are concentrated,the crack propagates in fan-shapenear them,and the fatigue striations are cyclic cleavage facets.Each striation consists of awide cleavage facet and a narrow cleavage stage.Those stages often blunt due to plasticdeformation.The fatigue striations are clear and continual,and distribute over whole zone ofstage Ⅱ crack propagation.Two kinds of fatigue striations form in different levels,areconjoined by a“twisted baked piece of pastry”band.The secondary crack along the fatiguestriations was observed frequently.Some of them have already developed into secondarymacrocracks and secondary fatigue striations were found clearly on secondary fracture sur-face.The fracture surface can be divided into two parts,initiation and propagation zone of thecrack,however,no statical-fracture zone was observed.The mechanism to form striationswas preliminarily discussed.