S. Dubey et al., FATIGUE AND FRACTURE OF DAMAGE-TOLERANT IN-SITU TITANIUM MATRIX COMPOSITES, Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy andmaterials science, 28(10), 1997, pp. 2037-2047
In an effort to engineer damage-tolerant ingot metallurgy (IM) in situ
titanium matrix composites with attractive mechanical properties, the
fatigue and fracture properties of a range of high-modulus titanium a
lloys reinforced with TiB whiskers were examined. The strengthening ef
fects due to elastic whisker reinforcement are quantified using shear
lag and rule-of-mixture models. The effects of alloy composition and m
icrostructure on the fatigue behavior of the in situ titanium composit
es will also be discussed.