Research Article

Effect of Microstructure on the Corrosion Fatigue Crack Growth of Low and Medium Steels

Table 5

The Paris equations of the corrosion fatigue curves of 15CrMo under two heat treatment states.

Heat treatment processMicrostructureΔK range ()CnParis formula

Full annealing90%ferrite + 10%pearlite12∼217.56 × 10−114.08da/dN = 7.56 × 10−11 × ΔK4.08
Normalizing60%ferrite + 40%pearlite17∼253.00 × 10−81.77da/dN = 3.00 × 10−8 × ΔK1.77