Consideration of Fatigue Evaluation of SUS316 and SUS430 Steels under Multiaxial Stresses Combined Internal Pressure and Axial Load using Hollow Cylinder Specimen

Abstract

This study focuses on discussing fatigue life evaluation method of SUS316 and SUS430 steels under wide ranged proportional multiaxial loading conditions. Fatigue tests under 7 types of loading path which are combined axial stress and inner pressure were carried out using hollow cylinder specimens at room temperature. It has been considered that the proportional loading does not cause additional hardening, however this study shows that the complex loading path causes additional hardening without principal direction change of stress and strain in a cycle. The Itoh-Sakane model which evaluates loading and lives under non-proportional multiaxial fatigue by only considering the maximum and the minimum principal stress or strain and their principal directions. However, this model is also needed to consider middle principal stress because change of the middle principal stress influence fatigue life under current loading paths. Therefore, the Itoh-Sakane model was modified to evaluation fatigue life of SUS316 and SUS430 under combined internal pressure and axial loading conditions.