Effect of stress ratio or mean stress on fatigue delamination growth in composites: Critical review

2015 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 214-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafiullah Khan ◽  
Rene Alderliesten ◽  
Saeed Badshah ◽  
Rinze Benedictus
2016 ◽  
Vol 853 ◽  
pp. 246-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Fang ◽  
Qian Hua Kan ◽  
Guo Zheng Kang ◽  
Wen Yi Yan

Experiments on U75V rail steel were carried out to investigate the cyclic feature, ratcheting behavior and low-cycle fatigue under both strain- and stress-controlled loadings at room temperature. It was found that U75V rail steel shows strain amplitude dependent cyclic softening feature, i.e., the responded stress amplitude under strain-controlled decreases with the increasing number of cycles and reaches a stable value after about 20th cycle. Ratcheting strain increases with an increasing stress amplitude and mean stress, except for stress ratio, and the ratcheting strain in failure also increases with an increasing stress amplitude, mean stress and stress ratio. The low-cycle fatigue lives under cyclic straining decrease linearly with an increasing strain amplitude, the fatigue lives under cyclic stressing decrease with an increasing mean stress except for zero mean stress, and decrease with an increasing stress amplitude. Ratcheting behavior with a high mean stress reduces fatigue life of rail steel by comparing fatigue lives under stress cycling with those under strain cycling. Research findings are helpful to evaluate fatigue life of U75V rail steel in the railways with passenger and freight traffic.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aodi Yu ◽  
Hong-Zhong Huang ◽  
Yan-Feng Li ◽  
He Li ◽  
Ying Zeng

Abstract Mean stress has a great influence on fatigue life, commonly used stress-based life prediction models can only fit the test results of fatigue life under specific stress ratio or mean stress but cannot describe the effect of stress ratio or mean stress on fatigue life. Smith, Watson and Topper (SWT) proposed a simple mean stress correction criterion. However, the SWT model regards the sensitivity coefficient of all materials to mean stress as 0.5, which will lead to inaccurate predictions for materials with a sensitivity coefficient not equal to 0.5. In this paper, considering the sensitivity of different materials to mean stresses, compensation factor is introduced to modify the SWT model, and several sets of experimental data are used for model verification. Then, the proposed model is applied to fatigue life predictions of rolling bearings, and the results of proposed method are compared with test results to verify its accuracy.


1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-390
Author(s):  
T. R. Gurney

Using results obtained in work on fatigue crack propagation in unwelded sheet specimens, an analysis has been made of fatigue test results for specimens with longitudinal non-load-carrying fillet welds tested in the as-welded and stress relieved conditions and also after treatment by local compression and by spot heating. It is shown that, by this means, it is possible to provide a quantitative explanation of the effect of residual stresses and applied stress ratio on fatigue strength, since all the results can be normalized on the basis of an effective stress range. In the course of the work it has been shown that the gross stress concentration factor for this type of joint is approximately 2·57. It has also again been demonstrated that the beneficial effect of spot heating on fatigue strength is a direct result of induced compressive residual stresses.


Author(s):  
Elie A. Badr ◽  
Joanne Ishak

Abstract Mean stress effects in pressurized steel blocks were examined under constant amplitude fatigue loading. The tests were performed to provide experimental data needed to study the effect of mean stress on fatigue lives of subject specimen, and to substantiate the use of analytical expressions to account for the mean stress. The mean stress was the result of subjecting the specimens to an autofrettage pressure which induced compressive residual stresses at the crossbore intersection of the specimens. Fatigue tests were carried out under both tensile and compressive mean stress levels. Test results were compared to several mean stress accounting relationships such as the Smith-Watson Topper, Bergmann and Seeger, modified Goodman, Gerber and Soderberg. Test results indicated that the modified Goodman equation is favorable in accounting for the effect of both tensile and compressive mean stresses on fatigue life (up to a compressive mean stress to ultimate stress ratio of −0.2). The behavior under compressive mean stress to ultimate stress ratio of less than −0.2 indicated that a linear correction relationship was required.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 0965a6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhananjay Pradhan ◽  
G S Mahobia ◽  
K Chattopadhyay ◽  
D C Fernando ◽  
N Paulose ◽  
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