Study of Monotonic Properties’ Relevance for Estimation of Cyclic Yield Stress and Ramberg-Osgood Parameters of Steels

Abstract

Most of existing methods for estimation of cyclic stress-strain parameters have been developed for steels in general with no regard to the peculiarities of individual steel subgroups. Also, proposed models were commonly developed and evaluated without systematically determining if, and to what extent, individual monotonic properties contribute to their accuracy. In this work, a thorough statistical analysis of experimental datasets of 116 different steels obtained from literature was performed in order to determine which monotonic properties might be relevant for the estimation of cyclic yield stress and cyclic Ramberg-Osgood parameters of unalloyed, low-alloy and high-alloy steels. Only certain monotonic properties used in existing methods were found to be suitable for estimation purposes, while for a number of monotonic properties used in those references no such conclusion can be given. Furthermore, obtained results indicate that steels should not be treated as a single group since different sets of monotonic properties proved to be relevant for unalloyed, low- and high-alloy steel subgroups. Provided list of specific monotonic properties relevant for estimation of individual cyclic parameters of particular steel subgroups can be used for improving the accuracy of existing or development of new estimation methods.