%0 journal article
%@ 0921-5093
%A Schnubel, D.,Horstmann, M.,Ventzke, V.,Riekehr, S.,Staron, P.,Fischer, T.,Huber, N.

%D 2012
%J Materials Science and Engineering  A
%N 
%P 8-14 
%R doi:10.1016/j.msea.2012.02.094
%T Retardation of fatigue crack growth in aircraft aluminium alloys via laser heating - Experimental proof of concept
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2012.02.094
 
%X In this work, a defocused laser was used to modify the residual stress state in AA2198-T8 C(T)100 specimens with the goal of retarding fatigue crack growth.,The manuscript provides a description of the process, the resulting changes of the material properties and the modied fatigue crack growth behaviour. The performed experiments, including thermocouple measurements, microscopical examinations, micro-hardness measurements, residual stress measurements and fatigue crack growth measurements under constant amplitude loading show,,that via laser heating a substantial retardation of fatigue crack growth can be achieved.