When Coatings Weaken Titanium

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 171 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. A protective coating made fatigue worse: CrAlN cut the TC4 titanium fatigue limit from ~520 to ~320 MPa (~40% drop) — cracks started in the brittle coating and attacked the interface. The authors' coating-cracking-driven substrate damage model — a caution for fatigue-critical titanium. Based on the paper: Brittle Coating Effects on Fatigue Cracks Behavior in Ti Alloys; Y. Bai, Y. Xi, K. Gao, H. Yang, X. Pang, X. Yang, A.A. Volinsky; International Journal of Fatigue, 2019, Vol. 125, pp. 432–439. Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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