THE MEASUREMENT OF PLASTIC DEFORMATION AND CRACK GROWTH IN CRACKED SPECIMENS BY SAM

摘要

In this paper,scanning acoustic microscope(SAM) was used to obtainsome characteristic photographs which explain the mesoscopic information of severalcracked specimens.New results on subsurface information of steel,nickel andaluminium were presented.Plastic deformation and crack initiation were observed andanalysed.The length of crack propagation was measured.SAM is particularly suited tothe study of many mesoscopic phenomena in material science because it can imagemesoscopic subsurface feature without sectioning.It is revealed that SAM has a brightfuture in the field of mesomechanics.