Trends and Implications of Data on Notched-Bar Creep Rupture

Abstract

Extended research on creep rupture of notched specimens, conducted at the University of Michigan under Air Force sponsorship, is analyzed along with recent publications of others. The combined results suggest that notch strengthening is general for all alloys studied under some test conditions and is not specific to individual materials or to a given ductility level. Quantitative explanation of notch rupture behavior in terms of unnotched-specimen properties is handicapped by present uncertainties in the basic factors controlling creep-rupture life under variable multiaxial stress.