Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fatigue
Fatigue life and design
Fatigue mechanisms
Factors that affect fracture life
Generalized creep behavior
Stress and temperature effects
Fatigue
Fatigue = failure under cyclic
stress.
compression on top
specimen
bearing
bearing
counter
motor
flex coupling
tension on bottom
max
m
min
time
Fatigue life
Stress amplitude (S) versus number of cycles to fatigue failure
max=2/3
Fatigue limits =35-60% of tensile strength
Fatigue life
S = stress amplitude
unsafe
Sfat
103
Sometimes, the
fatigue limit is zero!
safe
105
107
109
N = Cycles to failure
S = stress amplitude
unsafe
safe
103
case for
steel (typ.)
105
107
109
N = Cycles to failure
case for
Al (typ.)
Fatigue mechanism
Crack grows incrementally
( )
typ. 1 to 6
m
da
= K
dN
~
( )a
crack origin
S = stress amplitude
Adapted from
Fig. 8.22, Callister 6e.
put
surface
into
compression
Remove stress
concentrators
--Method 2: carburizing
C-rich gas
Mean stress
Surface effects
Design factors
Surface treatments
Case hardening
Carburized
steel
Core steel
Environmental effects
= lET
Corrosion fatigue: failure occurs by the simultaneous action of a
cyclic stress and chemical attack
Creep behavior
primary creep
steady-state creep
tertiary creep
rupture
Creep
strain,
INCREASING T
tertiary
t
primary
secondary
elastic
0
T < 0.4 Tm
time
Adapted from
Figs. 8.26 and 8.27,
Callister 6e.
Creep Failure
Strain rate
increases
for larger T,
200
100
40
20
10
Stress (MPa)
427C
538 C
649 C
1
10-2
10-1
Steady state creep rate s (%/1000hr)
Examples
Failure:
along grain
boundaries.
g.b. cavities
applied
stress
20
10
data for
S-590 Iron
Time to rupture,
tr T(20 + log t r ) = L
temperature
function of
applied stress
time to failure (rupture)
Stress, ksi
100
1
12 16 20 24 28
L(103K-log hr)
24x103 K-log hr
T(20 + log t r ) = L
1073K
Ans: tr = 233hr
Summary
- for cyclic :