The effects of heat treatment on fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth Rates in 440C and BG42 steels

Fatigue crack closure under cyclic tension

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Oxide-Induced Crack Closure: An Explanation for Near-Threshold Corrosion Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior

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A geometric model for fatigue crack closure induced by fracture surface roughness

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On crack closure in the near-threshold region

K. Minakawa, A. J. McEvily · Scripta Metallurgica · 1981 · 300 citations

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Mechanisms of tempered martensite embrittlement in low alloy steels

Rafael Horn, Robert O. Ritchie · Metallurgical Transactions A · 1978 · 286 citations

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