Abstract
This paper proposes a new methodology for fretting fatigue life assessment. It uses a combination of multiaxial fatigue criteria, the theory of critical distances and a node-displacement wear algorithm to account for the initiation life under fretting. Further, the extended finite element method is considered to compute the propagation life. A new method is also introduced to predict the crack propagation path under nonproportional loading conditions. To validate the analysis, available fretting fatigue data using an Al 2024-T3 alloy was considered. All the total lives estimated by the proposed approach fell within a scatter band 2, with an error between 11% and −39%. An analysis of the energy dissipated on the contact surface was performed and showed that for certain cases the inclusion of wear in the modeling of the problem is indeed essential to obtain more accurate fretting fatigue life assessments.
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