• Title of article

    Fatigue crack nucleation assisted by thermal activation

  • Author/Authors

    Fine، نويسنده , , M.E and Stolkarts، نويسنده , , V and Keer، نويسنده , , L.M، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    5
  • To page
    9
  • Abstract
    Experimental evidence is presented that very early in the fatigue lifetime of Sn–Pb eutectic solder the fatigue damage is governed by microcrack nucleation. A model for thermally assisted fatigue crack initiation is presented using standard equations for nucleation in phase transformations. Predictions of the model are in good agreement with nucleation data for this solder.
  • Keywords
    Fatigue , Crack , activation , thermal , Solder , Nucleation
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2055336