Abstract
The modified Carpinteri-Spagnoli (C-S) criterion is a multiaxial high-cycle fatigue criterion based on the critical plane approach. According to such a criterion, the orientation of the critical plane is linked to both the averaged directions of the principal stress axes and the fatigue properties of the material. The latter dependence is taken into account through a rotational angle, ?. Then, the multiaxial fatigue strength estimation is performed by computing an equivalent stress amplitude on the critical plane. In the present paper, some modifications of the original ? expression are implemented in the modified C-S criterion. More precisely, such modified expressions of ? depend on the ratio between the fatigue limit under fully reversed shear stress and that under fully reversed normal stress (in accordance with the original expression), and can be employed for metals ranging from mild to very hard fatigue behaviour. Some experimental data available in the literature are compared with the theoretical results in order to verify if the modified ?expressions are able to improve the fatigue strength estimation capability of the modified C-S criterion.
Highlights
I n the high-cycle fatigue related to a linear-elastic material, several criteria available in the literature to assess fatigue strength are based on the so-called critical plane approach
This approach takes into account the crack nucleation and early growth mechanisms experimentally observed during cyclic loading
Fatigue failure assessment is performed on a specific plane within the test specimen or component
Summary
I n the high-cycle fatigue related to a linear-elastic material, several criteria available in the literature to assess fatigue strength are based on the so-called critical plane approach. This approach takes into account the crack nucleation and early growth mechanisms experimentally observed during cyclic loading. According to such criteria, fatigue failure assessment is performed on a specific plane (the critical plane) within the test specimen or component. The position of the critical plane may be correlated with that of the principal stress directions by using appropriate weight functions [7]
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