Multiaxial fatigue life prediction based on effective factor with shear/axial stress ratio for Ti60 titanium alloy in very high cycle regime

Abstract

Fatigue failure mechanism of Ti60 titanium alloy under tension–torsion multiaxial loading in the very high cycle regime was studied first, and the results showed that the shear/axial stress ratio directly affects the failure mechanism. When the shear/axial stress ratio is relatively small, cracks tend to originate from the subsurface in single-point initiation mode, and the larger the shear/axial stress ratio, the more cracks tend to originate from the surface in multi-point initiation mode. Then, a pragmatic equivalent method for multiaxial to uniaxial load based on the law of shear/axial stress ratio on fatigue strength was proposed. Based on this method and uniaxial S-N curve, the fatigue lives of Ti60 specimens under shear/axial stress ratios of 1.37, 1.95, and 3.53 was predicted, and the experimental results showed that the prediction error is basically within a factor of 3.