Li, Hang; Zhang, Jiwang; Wu, Shengchuan; Wu, Zhengkai; Xie, Honglan; Fu, Yanan; Wu, Mingze

JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS

2022, 921, 0925-8388

Li, Hang; Zhang, Jiwang; Wu, Shengchuan; Wu, Zhengkai; Xie, Honglan; Fu, Yanan; Wu, Mingze

The effects of micro-shot peening (MSP) and artificial surface defects were investigated in relation to the defect tolerance of Al-Si-0.6Mg alloy in the framework of fracture mechanics. The results indicated that coral-shaped casting defects inside the alloy could be effectively quantified using the X-ray synchrotron radiation technique. An affected layer with a surface roughness (Ra) of 1.25 and residual stress of - 125 MPa was introduced on the MSP specimen compared to the un-peened (UP) specimen. The fatigue strengths of the UP and MSP specimens containing the artificial defects decreased as the defect size increased under rotating bending fatigue tests, except in the case of defects with the equivalent size of 395 and 490 mu m, respectively. MSP could shift the crack initiation site toward the subsurface, while all the cracks of the specimens with the artificial defects originated from the surface and maintained an aspect ratio of 0.66 during the crack growth process. The relationship between the defect sizes and the fatigue strengths could be reasonably assessed by the modified Kitagawa-Takahashi (K-T) diagrams. The critical defect size of the MSP specimens was increased from 450 to 542 mu m compared with that of the UP specimens, owing to the beneficial effect of the compressive residual stress. The defect tolerance of the Al-Si-0.6Mg alloy was im-proved by the MSP process.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V.