Abstract
AbstractThe present study investigated the fretting fatigue crack initiation of dovetail structure based on experimental observation and multiple axial criteria. Two typical critical plane approaches of the Smith‐Watson‐Topper (SWT) and the Fatemi and Socie (FS) model were used to predict the crack initiation location, orientation angle, and fatigue life. The results indicate that both SWT and FS models predict consistent results with the experiment in crack initiation location. Regarding the crack initiation angle, FS model shows good agreement with the experimental observation, but SWT model exhibits a large difference. The two models give conservative results in fretting fatigue life. In view of this, the theory of critical distance (TCD) was incorporated into the SWT and the FS models. It shows that both the TCD‐SWT and the TCD‐FS predict fatigue lives within a scatter band of 2. It suggests that introducing the TCD into the critical plane model can greatly reduce the conservatism of the prediction. Furthermore, the prediction has less dependence on specific models.
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