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Push-pull fatigue tests have been conducted on several materials at various frequencies and temperatures in air and high vacuum (10−8 torr) and the fatigue life determined in terms of the cyclic plastic strain. In contrast to a changing exponent of the Coffin-Manson law with increasing temperature in air, in high vacuum this exponent is found to remain nearly constant at a value of about 0.5. Further, the temperature sensitivity of this exponent and of life at a specific plastic strain range in high vacuum is slight. Pronounced plastic instability (specimen shortening and fattening) was observed for the ductile metals investigated and crack nucleation was retarded. In all cases crack propagation was transgranular in vacuum. It is concluded that for the materials, temperature, and frequencies investigated, the degradation of fatigue life at elevated temperature is due to environmental enhancement of intergranular fracture. Materials investigated include A286 at room temperature and 593°C, nickel A at 550°C, 304 stainless steel at 816°C and 7075T6 aluminum alloy.
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Coffin, L.F. The effect of high vacuum on the low cycle fatigue law. Metall Trans 3, 1777–1788 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02642561
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