Abstract
The experimental conditions that produce bimodally-distributed fatigue populations were investigated in Ti–6Al–2Sn–4Zr–6Mo, with the aim of identifying conditions favorable for characterizing life-limiting fatigue behavior. In general, the more aggressive test conditions in this effort were identified as more favorable for producing bimodally-distributed lifetime populations in which the shorter life populations were dominated by the life-limiting behavior. Data sets obtained using electropolished specimens generally exhibited bimodal distributions, and this surface condition was determined to be most suitable for investigating life-limiting fatigue behavior for a wider range of test conditions, due to the elimination of machining-induced residual stresses. It was also determined that the presence of bimodally distributed data populations, and the relative sampling of the corresponding damage mechanisms, can have a significant effect on life predictions, if the bimodal behavior is not explicitly included.
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