ME 360 – Summer 2014 – HW05 Name _________________________

1) Determine unmodified fatigue strength (units = MPa) of hot-rolled 1010 steel shaft in axial
loading for a design life of 100,000 cycles. Do not apply any fatigue correction factors.

185.4 MPa
SN _______________ Sut = 324 MPa Sm = 0.75 Sut = 243 MPa Se’ = 0.5 Sut = 162 MPa
logS
log N  log 10 3 log S N  log S m Sm
 N=105
log 10  log 10
6 3
log Se '  log S m SN

log S N  2.3856 Se’ logN

0.6667 
 0.1761 103 N 106

2) Determine fatigue strength (units = ksi) of normalized 4140 steel shaft in bending for a design
life of 107 cycles. Do not apply any fatigue correction factors.

74 ksi
SN _______________ Sut = 148 ksi Se’ = 0.5 Sut = 74 ksi N = 107 > 106 SN = Se’

3) Determine fatigue strength (units = MPa) for cold-rolled 5052 aluminum rod in torsion for a
design life of 107 cycles. Do not apply any fatigue correction factors.

147.7 MPa
SN _______________ Sut = 290 MPa Sm = 0.9 Sut = 261 MPa Sf’ = 0.4 Sut = 116 MPa
logS
log N  log 10 3 log S N  log S m Sm
 N=107
log 5x10  log 10
8 3
log Sf '  log S m SN
Sf’
log S N  2.4167 logN
0.7019 
 0.35212 103 N 5x108

4) Determine fatigue correction factors for the 0.415 inch DIA shaft from HW04. The shaft is in
bending and torsion from loading by the UGV track, was machined but was not ground, operates
in normal environmental temperatures and should have 99% reliability.

1.0
Cload _________ 0.9464
Csize _________ 0.7182
Csurf _________ 1.0
Ctemp _________ 0.814
Creliab _________

d = 0.415 in Csize = 0.869 d -0.097 = 0.9464

machined A = 2.7 b = -0.265 Sut = 148 ksi Csurf = A (Sut) b = 0.7182

5) Repeat question 2) above and include fatigue correction factors from question 4).

40.9 ksi
SN _______________ Se’ = 74 ksi Se = Cload Csize Csurf Ctemp Creliab Se’ = 40.9 ksi