Application of Life-Dependent Material Parameters to Fatigue Life Prediction under Multiaxial and Non-Zero Mean Loading.

Krzysztof Kluger,Szymon Derda,Aleksander Karolczuk

doi:10.3390/ma13071587

Abstract

This study presents the life-dependent material parameters concept as applied to several well-known fatigue models for the purpose of life prediction under multiaxial and non-zero mean loading. The necessity of replacing the fixed material parameters with life-dependent parameters is demonstrated. The aim of the research here is verification of the life-dependent material parameters concept when applied to multiaxial fatigue loading with non-zero mean stress. The verification is performed with new experimental fatigue test results on a 7075-T651 aluminium alloy and S355 steel subjected to multiaxial cyclic bending and torsion loading under stress ratios equal to R = −0.5 and 0.0, respectively. The received results exhibit the significant effect of the non-zero mean value of shear stress on the fatigue life of S355 steel. The prediction of fatigue life was improved when using the life-dependent material parameters compared to the fixed material parameters.

Highlights

Non-monotonic alternation of stress states may lead to permanent changes in the structure of materials and is often the cause of the limited functionality of machines and engineering structures [1,2,3,4].The mechanisms leading to fatigue failure of materials are complex and depend on many factors [5].To avoid multiscale damage modelling of material behaviours, phenomenological models are mostly applied for fatigue life prediction in engineering problems [6]
The application of the life-dependent material parameters improved the consistency of the experimental and calculated fatigue lives for all analysed fatigue models and for both S355 steel and 7075-T651 aluminium alloy under non-zero mean stress
The best consistency of the experimental and calculated fatigue lives was obtained for the Papuga–Růžička model for the S355 steel for both stress ratios of R = 0 and

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Introduction

To avoid multiscale damage modelling of material behaviours, phenomenological models are mostly applied for fatigue life prediction in engineering problems [6]. These models are usually based on a semi-empirical function of multiaxial stress/strain components correlated with fatigue life [7,8,9,10]. There is a tendency to modify such models in order to extend their scope of operation This has resulted in the development or modification of many models over the last few decades [10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. In the fatigue life calculation algorithm, this scalar value is compared with the corresponding reference characteristics, resulting in fatigue life estimation

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