Research on Fatigue Life Prediction Method of Key Component of Turning Mechanism Based on Improved TCD

The main objective of this paper is to accurately obtain fatigue life prediction for the key components of a turning mechanism using the improved theory of critical distances (TCD). The irregularly shaped rotating arm is the central stressed part of the turning mechanism, which contains notches. It...

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Published in:Metals (Basel ) 2022-03, Vol.12 (3), p.506
Main Authors: Wang, Tingting, Zhang, Han, Duan, Yuechen, Wang, Mengjian, Qin, Dongchen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
critical distance length
fatigue experiment
Fatigue life
fatigue life prediction
Fatigue strength
Life prediction
Methods
Notched components
Notches
rotating arm
Rotation
Stress concentration
stress function
Stress functions
theory of critical distances
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Summary:The main objective of this paper is to accurately obtain fatigue life prediction for the key components of a turning mechanism using the improved theory of critical distances (TCD). The irregularly shaped rotating arm is the central stressed part of the turning mechanism, which contains notches. It has been found that TCD achieves good results in predicting the fatigue strength or fatigue life of notched components with regular shape but is less commonly used for notched components with irregular shape. Therefore, TCD was improved and applied broadly to predict the fatigue life of an irregularly shaped rotating arm. Firstly, the notch depth and structure net width parameters were introduced into the low-order and low-accuracy classical TCD function to obtain a novel stress function with high computational efficiency and high accuracy, whereas the stress concentration factor was introduced to modify the length of critical distance. Secondly, the improved TCD was used to predict the fatigue strength of notched components with regular shape, and its accuracy was demonstrated by a fatigue experiment. Finally, the improved TCD was applied to predict the fatigue life of an irregularly shaped rotating arm. The deviation between prediction results and experimental results is less than 18%. The results demonstrate that the improved TCD can be applied effectively and accurately to predict the fatigue life of key components of turning mechanisms.
ISSN:2075-4701
2075-4701
DOI:10.3390/met12030506