Abstract

Low cycle fatigue (LCF) experiments on anti-seismic steel HRB400E reinforcing steel bars under constant total strain (0.6%) control were conducted on a MTS 809 servo-hydraulic material testing machine. The specimens were then subjected to quasi-static tension until they ruptures on the machine. The mechanical properties such as cyclic stress-strain behaviour, quasi-static strength, and quasi-static ductility of the material at various levels of fatigue damage were investigated .The test results indicate that when compared to its virgin state, in a certain cycles (about 80% fatigue life) the cycle-dependent behaviors of the material can cause a slight change in the strength and ductility, and the ductility of the steel has an opposite trend to the strength. However, a significant decrease occurs to both the strength and the ductility as the cyclic cycles exceeds about 80% fatigue life.

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