Abstract

The constant amplitude, zero-mean stress, axial-fatigue behaviour of plain and bluntly notched AISI 304 L stainless steel specimens is investigated in terms of strain energy density. Concerning plain material, it was found that at the fatigue knee the plastic strain energy density is 1.49 times higher than the elastic strain energy density. In the authors’ opinion, the presence of plasticity at the fatigue knee is responsible for the unsuitableness of classical stress - based approaches to synthesise the fatigue behaviour of this material. On the contrary, the elastic-plastic strain energy density was found an efficient parameter to rationalise in a single scatter band fatigue data of plain and bluntly notched specimens. Based on this result, the classic stress-and the point stress-based approaches were revisited taking into account the presence of plasticity at the fatigue knee, by introducing an equivalent fully elastic material having a linear elastic strain energy density at the fatigue knee equal to that of the actual material. Accordingly, a coefficient of plasticity Kp was successfully introduced to modify the classical definition of fatigue strength reduction factor, Kf.

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