... facilitates an elongated grain orientation, which exhibits enhanced impact strength, high temperature creep and fatigue resistance, and improved corrosion resistance compared with off-axis orientations. Of concern to turbine designers are the effects of cyclic fatigue, thermal gradients, and potential stress...

... transient behavior following impact. 28 06 2006 07 11 2007 11 12 2008 dynamic testing impact strength impact testing steel stress-strain relations Eglin steel Taylor cylinder test strain rate dynamic testing In the early 1940s, engineers and scientists began...