Research mainly divided into two classes: a study life, has a crack in the sample of the exert a certain frequency of cyclic stress or strain, make the number of samples to stress or strain fatigue damage; The other is a study defect resistance, fatigue life is defined as made to the main crack size of the sample increases to a particular value of fatigue cycle or time. Research on the latter is more, linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) very useful to study the fracture behavior of the cemented carbide. Online elastic fracture mechanics, the initial defects of unstable proliferation caused the brittle fracture of materials. Due to the hard alloy is usually very hard, can prevent the generation of fatigue crack, and carbide always has some defects, such as residual hole, impurity and irregular shape larger particles WC (tungsten carbide), by studying the crack growth resistance to estimate the fatigue life of cemented carbide will be more reasonable.
Fracture toughness of cemented carbide is an important mechanics performance, research of cemented carbide fracture toughness could be used to determine the fatigue behavior. But for WC - Co (cobalt tungsten carbide, fracture under static and cyclic loading condition is different, because of different fracture mechanism of Co. Co can occur under static loading condition, plastic deformation, is ductile, and under cyclic stress state, the martensitic phase transformation in the Co, known as the sensitive fracture source.
Similar to the fracture toughness, fatigue strength also depends on the micro structure parameters of cemented carbide. Fracture strength as Co mean free path, the WC grain size, and decrease of Co content and carbon content increases, as the solid solution cubic phase increase with the increase of the content of Co. In the process of fatigue, Co binder phase of phase transition is a kind of very important failure mechanism. A large number of accumulative deformation in the process of cyclic loading and/or high stress transform cubic hexagonal phase results. Behind the crack tip to the result of the phase transition of ductile ligaments decreases, so that the protective effect of the crack tip. This is hard alloy under cyclic loading has a strong effect, the fatigue life and life depends on the frequency of stress.
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Due to the complex nature of microscopic results, the fatigue behavior of cemented carbide is still have a lot of uncertain factors. Horniness alloy material properties, various factors of fracture mechanics and microscopic results parameters all have influence on the fatigue behavior of cemented carbide, stress intensity factor and the influence of the mean free path of the binding phase is most important.