Abstract
The present research work deals with the fatigue assessment of an Al 7075-T651 subjected to fretting fatigue testing characterised by cylindrical contact. A small rolling of the pads is experimentally observed and, consequently, the contact surface stresses are different to the hertzian one. Therefore, the methodology, recently proposed by some of the present authors for the fatigue assessment of fretting-affected metallic components, is here employed for the first time in conjunction with a FE numerical model able to take into account the effect of the rolling of the pads, in order to find out both the crack nucleation orientation and the lifetime for each specimen of the experimental campaign analysed.
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