Damage evaluation under complex fatigue loading conditions

Fatigue damage and life assessment of multiaxial loadings is still an issue yet to resolve. Many methods have been proposed with promising agreements with the experimental results. However, the performance of such methods is, more than often, purely based on fatigue tests with simple loading conditi...

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Published in:Frattura ed integritá strutturale 2019-04, Vol.13 (48), p.318-331
Main Authors: Reis, Luis, Caxias, Joao, Soares, Henrique, Costa, Pedro, Anes, Vitor, Freitas, Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accumulation
Crack propagation
Critical plane models
Damage accumulation
Damage assessment
Fatigue failure
Fatigue life
Fatigue life assessment
Fatigue tests
High strength steels
Life assessment
Metal fatigue
Methods
Multiaxial fatigue
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Summary:Fatigue damage and life assessment of multiaxial loadings is still an issue yet to resolve. Many methods have been proposed with promising agreements with the experimental results. However, the performance of such methods is, more than often, purely based on fatigue tests with simple loading conditions. In this work the stress scale factor (SSF) criterion and the virtual cycle counting (vcc) method are used to estimate fatigue life and damage accumulation with two damage accumulation rules. Fatigue tests were carried out with three different variable amplitude random loadings, applied to several specimens made from a 42CrMo4 high-strength steel. Fatigue crack plane measurements were compared with predictions from several critical plane models. The applied methods provided very acceptable results making the SSF package (SSF equivalent stress and virtual cycle counting method) a good method to estimate fatigue life and assessment of the damage accumulation in random fatigue loadings.
ISSN:1971-8993
1971-8993
DOI:10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.31