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Enhanced Fatigue Strength of Commercially Pure Ti Processed by Rotary Swaging

This materials science study found that processing commercially pure titanium by rotary swaging to refine its grain structure significantly improved its fatigue strength and resistance to crack growth. The research is focused on metal alloy engineering with no relevance to microplastic pollution.

2015 Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 32 citations
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Effects of Crystallographic Texture on Subsurface Fatigue Crack Generation in Ti–Fe–O Alloy at Low Temperature

This study characterized subsurface fatigue cracks in a titanium alloy under cyclic loading, examining how crystallographic texture affects crack initiation and growth. The research is focused on materials engineering rather than environmental contamination.

2021 ISIJ International 7 citations
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Hierarchy of the macrozone features in Ti-6Al-4V alloy inferred from massive polycrystal plasticity calculations

Researchers used advanced crystal plasticity computer modeling to study how clusters of similarly-oriented grains — called macrozones — affect stress concentrations and fatigue performance in titanium alloys used in aerospace applications. The term "microplastic" here refers to early-stage metal deformation behavior (not environmental plastic pollution); results showed macrozone texture and shape strongly influence where stress hotspots form under cyclic loading.

2024 Journal of Materials Research and Technology 6 citations
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Investigation of Fatigue Damage of Tempered Martensitic Steel during High Cycle Fatigue and Very High Cycle Fatigue Loading Using In Situ Monitoring by Scanning Electron Microscope and High‐Resolution Thermography

This study examined how fatigue damage develops in martensitic steel under high-cycle loading, finding that heat treatment conditions affect the material's failure mechanisms. The research is focused on materials engineering and has limited direct relevance to microplastic pollution.

2021 steel research international 9 citations
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Hot Deformation Behavior and Processing Maps of a New Ti-6Al-2Nb-2Zr-0.4B Titanium Alloy

This materials science study characterized the high-temperature deformation behavior of a new titanium alloy used in aerospace and industrial applications. It has no direct relevance to microplastic or environmental health research.

2021 Materials 14 citations
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Fatigue properties of a metastable β-type titanium alloy with reversible phase transformation

Researchers investigated the mechanical and fatigue properties of a nickel-free beta-titanium alloy (Ti-24Nb-4Zr-7.6Sn), finding that stress-induced martensitic transformation suppresses microplastic deformation and improves low-cycle fatigue strength, while cold rolling increases fatigue endurance by roughly 50% — relevant to biomedical implant design.

2007 Acta Biomaterialia 184 citations
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Deformation and dissipated energies for high cycle fatigue of 2024-T3 aluminium alloy

This materials engineering study used infrared thermography and digital image correlation to measure energy dissipation in aluminum alloy during high-cycle fatigue, relating tiny temperature changes to microplastic deformation at the crystal level. This is an engineering study on metal fatigue with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2009 Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 42 citations
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Fracture of aircraft titanium alloys under high-frequency loading

Researchers studied how titanium alloy components from aircraft engines fail under high-frequency vibration and found that cracks tend to start below the metal surface rather than at it, identifying specific microstructural features that trigger failure and suggesting that damping layers could help extend component lifespan.

2023 SN Applied Sciences 8 citations
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High resolution digital image correlation mapping of strain localization upon room and high temperature, high cycle fatigue of a TiAl intermetallic alloy

This is a materials science study using high-resolution digital image correlation to map how strain localizes during the plastic deformation of metals. It is not related to environmental microplastics.

2020 International Journal of Fatigue 25 citations
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Slip Irreversibility, Microplasticity, and Fatigue Cracking Mechanism in Near-α and α + β Titanium Alloys

This paper is not about microplastics; it reviews the materials-science mechanisms of microplasticity, slip irreversibility, and fatigue crack initiation in near-α and α+β titanium alloys—a topic in metallurgy unrelated to plastic pollution.

2026 Metals
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Effect of microvoids on microplasticity behavior of dual-phase titanium alloy under high cyclic loading (I): Crystal plasticity analysis

Researchers used crystal plasticity finite element modelling to investigate how microvoids influence microplasticity deformation in dual-phase titanium alloy under high cyclic loading. They found that geometrically necessary dislocations accumulate around microvoids, with void tip curvature having a greater effect on dislocation density than void size, and that increasing void size and curvature elevates cumulative shear strain across all phases.

2022 Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China 11 citations
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Analysis of fatigue crack initiation in cyclic microplasticity regime

This engineering study analyzed how fatigue cracks begin in metals under cyclic loading, focusing on microscale stress and material defects. It is a materials science paper not related to environmental microplastics.

2019 International Journal of Fatigue 20 citations
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In situ characterization of work hardening and springback in grade 2 α-titanium under tensile load

A study using X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy characterized work hardening and springback in titanium sheet metal. While unrelated to microplastics, research on mechanical behavior of metals is relevant to understanding how metal and polymer particles are generated during manufacturing and wear.

2019 Acta Materialia 41 citations
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The Effect of Initial Annealing Microstructures on the Forming Characteristics of Ti–4Al–2V Titanium Alloy

This materials science study investigated how pre-treatment processes affect the plastic forming behavior of a titanium alloy used in aerospace applications. It is an engineering paper unrelated to environmental microplastics.

2019 Metals 16 citations
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Analysis of contributions of plastic deformation and intergranular corrosion to corrosion-fatigue failure of Al-Mg alloys

This is not a microplastics research paper; it is a metallurgy study examining how plastic deformation and intergranular corrosion contribute to corrosion-fatigue failure in aluminium-magnesium alloys.

2026 ArXiv.org
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Adjusting the very high cycle fatigue properties of a metastable austenitic stainless steel by means of the martensite content

This metallurgy study examined how pre-deforming stainless steel to introduce martensite phase changes its fatigue properties under very high cycle loading. This is a materials engineering study on metal alloys with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2010 Procedia Engineering 40 citations
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Exploring the effect of complex hierarchic microstructure of quenched and partitioned martensitic stainless steels on their high cycle fatigue behaviour

Not relevant to microplastics — this paper investigates high cycle fatigue behavior of quenched-and-partitioned martensitic stainless steels, exploring how their complex retained-austenite microstructure affects fatigue fracture performance.

2023 Materials & Design 14 citations
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Modification of Mechanical Properties of High-Strength Titanium Alloys VT23 and VT23M Due to Impact-Oscillatory Loading

Researchers tested an impact-oscillation method for improving the mechanical properties of high-strength titanium alloy sheets. This is a metallurgical engineering paper unrelated to environmental microplastics.

2019 Metals 26 citations
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Determination of energy dissipation during cyclic loading and its use to predict fatigue life of metal alloys

This paper is not about microplastics — it develops a mathematical method for predicting the fatigue life of metal alloys from energy dissipation during cyclic loading.

2023 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 7 citations
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Rapid estimation of fatigue limit for C45 steel by thermography and digital image correlation

This materials engineering study used thermography and digital image correlation to rapidly estimate the fatigue limit of steel, linking temperature and mechanical changes to the onset of microplastic deformation in metal. It is a mechanical engineering paper not related to environmental microplastics.

2020 The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design 16 citations
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Investigation of microplastic deformation mechanisms in TA2 metallic bipolar plates using a crystal plasticity model coupling slip and twinning

This paper is not about environmental microplastics — it uses 'microplastic' in the materials science sense to describe tiny deformation zones within titanium metal sheets used for hydrogen fuel cell components, studying how these microscale plastic deformations affect metal forming during manufacturing.

2026 Journal of Materials Research and Technology
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Rapid Fatigue Limit Estimation of Metallic Materials Using Thermography-Based Approach

This paper is not about environmental microplastics; it uses the term "microplastic" in a materials science context to describe microscopic plastic deformation in metals during fatigue testing.

2023 Metals 8 citations
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Exploring the effect of complex hierarchic microstructure of quenched and partitioned martensitic stainless steels on their high cycle fatigue behaviour

This study examined the fatigue behavior of quenched and partitioned martensitic stainless steels, finding that their complex microstructure affects how they fail under cyclic loading. This is a materials science paper with no direct relevance to microplastics or environmental health.

2023 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Estimating fatigue sensitivity to polycrystalline Ni‐base superalloy microstructures using a computational approach

This computational study examined how microstructural features of a nickel superalloy affect fatigue crack formation and small crack growth, aiming to predict fatigue life variability. This aerospace materials engineering study has no connection to microplastics or environmental health.

2007 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 185 citations