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EG2101 / EG2401
March 2015
Dr Rob Thornton
Lecturer in Mechanics of Materials
www.le.ac.uk
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A 50mm wide sample plate of 7074-T8 aluminium
alloy contains a central through-crack of length
2a
For 7074-T8:
Kc = 22.2 MN m-3/2; y = 520MPa
2a
= cos
1
2
1.
2.
3.
K = 11.2 MN m-3/2
K = ? MN m-3/2
K = ? MN m-3/2
Safe as K ? Kc
Safe?
Safe?
2. Setting K = ?; = ? MPa; Y = ?
ac = ?
3. Setting K = ?; = ? MPa; Y = 1
ay = ?
Definition:
d
d
d
0
d
0
d
0
2 d
0
1
2 d
0
1
(1)
2+1
2+1
1
2+1
2 +1
2 +1
(2)
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1
0 2
1
2
(3)
9
2 d
0
1
(1)
10
2 d
0
1
(1)
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It is.
In fact, you should aim to be able to do this in your
sleep.
Once you begin to have nightmares pleasant dreams
about integrating to calculate fatigue lives, youll
know youre ready.
Actually, while youve been reading this your
memory mightve started to fade a bit so
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2 d
0
1
(1)
Got it now?
Great.
Trying not to refer to your previous 10 pages of
integrations, have a go at the following example
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d
0
Stress amplitudes:
1/2 = 360MPa
2/2 = 500MPa
3/2 = 440MPa
N3
N1
2
1
=1
Cycles:
N1 = 5.44 x 105
N2 = 5.35 x 103
N3 = 3.24 x 104
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0.4%C
steel
2000 series
Al-Cu
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i /MPa
Ni
Nfi
360
5.44 x 105
500
5.35 x 103
26.8
440
3.24 x 104
6 x 104
2. Using Miners Rule, calculate the fractional damage caused by each stress
regime to the fatigue life of the component and thus determine under
which stress regime it is predicted to fail
3. How many cycles will the component sustain under the failure stress
regime and therefore how many cycles in total will the component have
sustained when it fails?
[ans = 27,600; 577,000 ]
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d
d
d
0
1.
2.
a/W
1.12
0.0
1.37
0.2
2.11
0.4
2.83
0.5
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a/W
1.12
0.0
1.37
0.2
2.11
0.4
2.83
0.5
+
0
-
Mean stress
+
0
m3 > m2 > m1
Nf
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Exam reminder
Two and a half hours:
6 questions in two sections; answer 4 in total
Part A Answer one question out of two
Part B Answer three questions out of four
Questions in Part A do not follow style of previous
years examples:
New lecturer, new content new example slides!
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Good luck!
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