Low-Cycle Fatigue of Two Nickel-Base Alloys by Thermal-Stress Cycling

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Mehringer ◽  
R. P. Felgar

Cast DCM and cast Udimet 500, two nickel-base alloys, were tested in a thermal-stress-cycling device of the Coffin type. The strains induced by the thermal stresses were analyzed in several ways in an attempt to relate the plastic strains to cyclic life. The plastic strains were too small to permit calculating them with sufficient accuracy to correlate with cyclic life. It was found, however, that stress range did correlate reasonably well with the number of cycles to failure.

2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 163-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Kim ◽  
Duck Hoi Kim ◽  
Young Shin Lee ◽  
Young Jin Choi ◽  
Hyun Soo Kim ◽  
...  

Low cycle fatigue tests are performed on the Inconel 617 super alloy that be used for structural material of hot gas casing for gas turbine. The relations between strain energy density and number of cycles to failure are examined in order to predict the low cycle fatigue life of Inconel 617 super alloy. The lives predicted by strain energy methods are found to coincide with experimental data and results obtained from the Coffin-Manson method. And, the cyclic behavior of the Inconel 617 super alloy is characterized by cyclic hardening with increasing number of cycles.


1965 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Stout ◽  
A. W. Pense

In a number of studies of data obtained from fatigue tests on various materials it has been shown that the number of cycles to failure is related to the strain range by a relationship of the form εNm=c where N is the number of cycles to failure, ε the strain range, and m and c are constants. In the low cycle portion of the strain range versus cycles to failure curve, evidence has been presented by several investigators to show that the relationship should be εpN1/2=c where εp is the plastic strain range and c, the constant, can be related to tensile ductility. Some investigators have found the relation εtNm=c more useful. Here εt is the total strain range. As a result of a series of Pressure Vessel Research Committee investigations at Lehigh University, a large body of low cycle fatigue data has been obtained for a wide range of steels, microstructures, heat-treatments, and testing conditions. A study of these data has been undertaken, with special emphasis on the suitability of a relationship of this type for analysis and representation of fatigue data. As a result of this study the following conclusions have been drawn: (a) In the range of 5000 to 100,000 cycles a relation εtNm = c appears to be satisfactory. (b) Using this latter relation, an analysis of the low cycle fatigue behavior of structural steels reveals that they can be classified into three broad groups on the basis of their composition. Each group has a characteristic value of m and c which can be used to predict their behavior over the range 5000–100,000 cycles. (c) The value of m and the total strain for 5000 cycle life can be related to n, the strain hardening exponent, for the steels. The total strain for 100,000 cycle life is related to the ultimate tensile strength of the steels. Using these relationships, the fatigue curve for a structural steel can be estimated from tension test data. (d) The effect of microstructural variations for a steel within any one of the three groups was of secondary importance when compared to the compositional groupings, although some systematic effects of microstructural variations were noted.


1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Makinde ◽  
K. W. Neale

A new, general criterion is proposed for multiaxial low-cycle fatigue failure. Contours of constant fatigue life on a plot of maximum shear strain against the tensile strain acting normal to the plane of maximum shear strain are represented by a parametric criterion of the form g(θ,Nf)=kf1(θ)f2(Nf). Here g is the magnitude of the vector from the origin to a point on the constant life contour, θ is the angle associated with g in this space, Nf is the number of cycles to failure, k is a constant and f1 (θ) and f2(Nf) are two separate functions of θ and Nf, respectively. It is shown that all previously proposed macroscopic criteria are particular cases of the failure function g(θ, Nf). Experimental results from several authors are analyzed using the new criterion.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kulesa ◽  
Andrzej Kurek ◽  
Tadeusz Łagoda ◽  
Henryk Achtelik ◽  
Krzysztof Kluger

Abstract The paper presents a comparison of the fatigue life curves based on test of 15Mo3 steel under cyclic, pendulum bending and tension-compression. These studies were analyzed in terms of a large and small number of cycles where strain amplitude is dependent on the fatigue life. It has been shown that commonly used Manson-Coffin-Basquin model cannot be used for tests under cyclic bending due to the impossibility of separating elastic and plastic strains. For this purpose, some well-known models of Langer and Kandil and one new model of authors, where strain amplitude is dependent on the number of cycles, were proposed. Comparing the results of bending with tension-compression it was shown that for smaller strain amplitudes the fatigue life for both test methods were similar, for higher strain amplitudes fatigue life for bending tests was greater than for tension-compression.


1967 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
S. H. Fistedis

2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 422-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecka Brommesson ◽  
Magnus Hörnqvist ◽  
Magnus Ekh

During low-cycle fatigue test with smooth bars the number of cycles to initiation is commonly defined from a measured relative drop in aximum load. This criterion cannot be directly related to the actual measure of interest - the crack length. By relating data from controlled crack growth tests under low-cycle fatigue conditions of a high strength Titanium alloy at 350°C and numerical simulation of these tests, it is shown that it is possible to determine the relationship between load drop and crack length, provided that care is taken to consider all relevant aspects of the materials stress-strain response.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mu-Hang Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Hong Shen ◽  
Lei He ◽  
Ke-Shi Zhang

The relation between deformation inhomogeneity and low-cycle-fatigue failure of T2 pure copper and the nickel-based superalloy GH4169 under symmetric tension-compression cyclic strain loading is investigated by using a polycrystal representative volume element (RVE) as the material model. The anisotropic behavior of grains and the strain fields are calculated by crystal plasticity, taking the Bauschinger effect into account to track the process of strain cycles of metals, and the Shannon’s differential entropies of both distributions of the strain in the loading direction and the first principal strain are employed at the tension peak of the cycles as measuring parameters of strain inhomogeneity. Both parameters are found to increase in value with increments in the number of cycles and they have critical values for predicting the material’s fatigue failure. Compared to the fatigue test data, it is verified that both parameters measured by Shannon’s differential entropies can be used as fatigue indicating parameters (FIPs) to predict the low cycle fatigue life of metal.


Author(s):  
Xiaozhi Wang ◽  
Joong-Kyoo Kang ◽  
Yooil Kim ◽  
Paul H. Wirsching

There are situations where a marine structure is subjected to stress cycles of such large magnitude that small, but significant, parts of the structural component in question experiences cyclic plasticity. Welded joints are particularly vulnerable because of high local stress concentrations. Fatigue caused by oscillating strain in the plastic range is called “low cycle fatigue”. Cycles to failure are typically below 104. Traditional welded joint S-N curves do not describe the fatigue strength in the low cycle region (< 104 number of cycles). Typical Class Society Rules do not directly address the low cycle fatigue problem. It is therefore the objective of this paper to present a credible fatigue damage prediction method of welded joints in the low cycle fatigue regime.


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