How high can the fatigue strength of metals be achieved?
This study presents four principles for enhancing metallic fatigue resistance, achieving record-high fatigue strength in cold-drawn pearlitic steel with oriented nano-scale lamellar microstructure and extremely small inclusions.
Authors
- Zhefeng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5674-2415)
- Zikuan Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5527-9112)
- Peng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0907-2110)
- Bin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-2646)
- Aiping Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8800-0774)
- Xiaolin Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9045-7257)
- Zhan Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3401-7439)
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Institute of Metal Research (CN)
- University of Science and Technology Beijing (CN)
- Kobe Steel (Japan) (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- National Science Review
- Published
- 2025-08-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf332
- Primary Topic
- Microstructure and mechanical properties
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00