By means of an electromagnetic driving and detection technique, the effects of fatigue by cyclic straining on the low-amplitude internal friction (
Q-1) as well as the dynamic modulus (
E) of the two typical carbon solids, i.e. glassy hard carbon and polycrystalline graphite, have been investigated.
The glassy carbon specimens heat treated (HT) at 1000°C indicated very short life in the fatigue test, i. e., failed at about 6.5×10
5 cycles of straining (
N) to the amplitude level of 4.5×10
-4, while it looks apparently excellent in the relaxation characters, having high
Q-1 and low
E. In view of its high electric resistivity observed beside, such a discrepancy is concluded to come from the presence of viscoelastic organic impurities dispersed rather inhomogeneously in the texture. The 2000°C HT specimen survived the 1000°C HT one by factor of about eleven, after indicating a peak of
Q-1-
N curve arround N=5×10
5 cycles on the ordinate. The 3000°C HT epecimen was most stable never failed even after 8×10
7 cycle strainings.
The fatigue test for polycrystalline graphite specimens was performed at four different levels of straining amplitude from 1.2×10
-4 up to 2×10
-3. The character changes due to fatigue, increase of Q-1 and decline of E, were generally enhanced by raising the amplitude level. The
Q-1-
N curve for the level of 1.0×10
-3 exhibited a peak at the nearly same position as that observed for the 2000°C HT glassy carbon.
It is pointed out that in every specimen the character changes occured mostly in the initial stage of fatigue. Brief discussions in terms of the dislocation theory are given.
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