Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction for Steels Based on Some Simple Approximations

Abstract

The Roessle-Fatemi’s hardness method (HM) and Muralidharan-Manson’s modified universal slopes method (MUSM) were employed to determine the uniaxial fatigue properties of steels from easily obtained tensile properties. Both methods give good life predictions, while the Roessle-Fatemi’s HM is somewhat better. Furthermore, for predicting multiaxial fatigue lives of steels in the absence of any fatigue data, the Li’s modified Wang-Brown model (MWB) was used in combination with the HM method (MWB-HM) as well as the MUSM method (MWB-MUSM), respectively. Correlation between the yield strength and the Brinell hardness was also developed to estimate the multiaxial fatigue lives of steels based only on hardness and elasticity modulus. It is shown that multiaxial fatigue lives were predicted fairly well by all the methods, and the MWB-MUSM method is slightly more accurate. In addition, a computer-based procedure for multiaxial fatigue life assessment incorporating MWB-MUSM approach was proposed and implemented to predict the fatigue life of an intermediate compressor casing. The predicted results are promising.