Abstract

In this paper, the effects of specimen geometry and loading condition on fatigue life are investigated based on statistical analysis and control volume concept. A probabilistic control volume method is developed for correlating the fatigue life of specimens with different control volumes. The predicted P-S-N curves accord with the experimental data for the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-2Sn-2Zr-3Mo-X and the high strength steel JIS SUJ2 in literature. The relative error of the predicted fatigue life at 50% survival probability to that directly analyzed from the conventional testing method is –18.7% for the specimens of titanium alloy. The paper also indicates that the determination of the control volume should be based on the fatigue failure mechanism of specimens, which is appropriate to use the control volume for the interior induced fatigue failure and the control surface with a certain thickness for the surface induced fatigue failure.

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