scholarly journals Ratcheting-Fatigue Behavior of Harmonic-Structure-Designed SUS316L Stainless Steel

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
Yang Song ◽  
Zhe Zhang ◽  
Hantuo Ma ◽  
Masashi Nakatani ◽  
Mie Ota Kawabata ◽  
...  

Stainless steels with harmonic-structure design have a great balance of high strength and high ductility. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate their fatigue properties for engineering applications. In the present work, the harmonic-structured SUS316L stainless steels were fabricated by mechanical milling (MM) and subsequent hot isostatic pressing (HIP) process. A series of ratcheting-fatigue tests were performed on the harmonic-structured SUS316L steels under stress-control mode at room temperature. Effects of grain structure and stress-loading conditions on ratcheting behavior and fatigue life were investigated. Results showed that grain size and applied mean stress had a significant influence on ratcheting-strain accumulation and fatigue life. Owing to the ultrafine grained structure, tensile strength of the harmonic-structured SUS316L steels could be enhanced, which restrained the ratcheting-strain accumulation, resulting in a prolonged fatigue life. A higher mean stress caused a faster ratcheting-strain accumulation, which led to the deterioration of fatigue life. Moreover, a modified model based on Smith–Watson–Topper (SWT) criterion predicted the ratcheting-fatigue life of the harmonic-structured SUS316L steels well. Most of the fatigue-life points were located in the 5 times error band.

2009 ◽  
Vol 417-418 ◽  
pp. 577-580
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Polák ◽  
Martin Petrenec

The fatigue properties of ferritic-pearlitic-bainitic steel using specimens produced from massive forging were measured in stress controlled regime with positive mean stress. The cyclic creep curves and cyclic hardening/softening curves were evaluated. The fatigue life was plotted in dependence on the mean stress and on the plastic strain amplitude. The principal contribution to the drop of the fatigue life with the mean stress is due to the increase of the plastic strain amplitude in cycling with mean stress.


Author(s):  
Julie Colin ◽  
Ali Fatemi ◽  
Said Taheri

This paper discusses cyclic deformation and fatigue behaviors of stainless steel 304L and aluminum 7075-T6. Effects of loading sequence, mean strain or stress, and prestraining were investigated. The behavior of aluminum is shown not to be affected by preloading, whereas the behavior of stainless steel is greatly influenced by prior loading. Mean stress relaxation in strain control and ratcheting in load control and their influence on fatigue life are discussed. Some unusual mean strain test results are presented for SS304L, where in spite of mean stress relaxation fatigue lives were significantly longer than fully-reversed tests. Prestraining indicated no effect on either deformation or fatigue behavior of aluminum, while it induced considerable hardening in SS304L and led to different results on fatigue life, depending on the test control mode. Possible mechanisms for secondary hardening observed in some tests, characterized by a continuous increase in the stress response and leading to runout fatigue life, are also discussed. The Smith–Watson–Topper parameter was shown to correlate most of the experimental data for both materials under different loading conditions.


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.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Gu ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Yanping Bao ◽  
Fuming Wang ◽  
Junhe Lian

The fatigue property is significantly affected by the inner inclusions in steel. Due to the inhomogeneity of inclusion distribution in the micro-scale, it is not straightforward to quantify the effect of inclusions on fatigue behavior. Various investigations have been performed to correlate the inclusion characteristics, such as inclusion fraction, size, and composition, with fatigue life. However, these studies are generally based on vast types of steels and even for a similar steel grade, the alloy concept and microstructure information can still be of non-negligible difference. For a quantitative analysis of the fatigue life improvement with respect to the inclusion engineering, a systematic and carefully designed study is still needed to explore the engineering dimensions of inclusions. Therefore, in this study, three types of bearing steels with inclusions of the same types, but different sizes and amounts, were produced with 50 kg hot state experiments. The following forging and heat treatment procedures were kept consistent to ensure that the only controlled variable is inclusion. The fatigue properties were compared and the inclusions that triggered the fatigue cracks were analyzed to deduce the critical sizes of inclusions in terms of fatigue failure. The results show that the critical sizes of different inclusion types vary in bearing steels. The critical size of the spinel is 8.5 μm and the critical size of the calcium aluminate is 13.5 μm under the fatigue stress of 1200 MPa. In addition, with the increase of the cleanliness of bearing steels, the improvement of fatigue properties will reach saturation. Under this condition, further increasing of the cleanliness of the bearing steel will not contribute to the improvement of fatigue property for the investigated alloy and process design.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Hongshuai Gao ◽  
Quansheng Sun

There are many diseases in the deck pavement of long-span steel bridges under the action of vehicles, rainwater, and freezing. It is necessary to study a new type of pavement material with high waterproof property, light weight, and high bonding performance for steel deck pavement. Polyurethane cement composite (PUC) can be used for steel deck pavement. In order to find out the temperature effect on fatigue properties of PUC, the four-point bending fatigue test was carried out at different temperatures. In this paper, the optimum mix ratio of PUC was selected by compressive and flexural tests, and then the bending fatigue test was conducted under strain control mode. Under temperature and external force coupling condition, a method for predicting fatigue life of PUC is proposed by the combination of theoretical deduction and experimental research. The results show that the proposed formula can effectively describe the fatigue life and fatigue limit of PUC. Finally, compared with three different asphalt mixtures for steel deck pavement, it is found that the fatigue performance of polyurethane cement is better than that of asphalt mixture.


2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Fengmei Xue ◽  
Fuguo Li ◽  
Xiaolei Cui

The ultimate tensile strength and fatigue life of plate with cold worked hole under high loading are always key designing parameters in engineering field. In this article, different cold expanded degrees (ranging from 1.69% to 11.11%) are applied to plate specimens with a central hole, made of 7050-T7451 aluminum alloy. The damage and fatigue properties are investigated by the three-dimensional finite element method with a user subroutine embedded into a void evolution model under complex stress states. The damage analysis indicates that plastic damage becomes critical when the cold expanded degree is larger than 7.14%, which does not suit for further service due to the loss of toughness. The cold expanded degree of 5.26% is identified as the best. It can be found that the fatigue life improves with the increased cold expanded degree. The small cold expanded degree leads to poor strengthening effect because of lacking sufficient residual stress, while large cold expanded degree makes micro-cracks emerge, which is beneficial to the increase in strengthening. All these results prove that the numerical analysis can accurately predict fatigue behavior of AA7050-T7451 plate based on our proposed approach, which is expected to be a powerful method in engineering field.


2019 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 09003
Author(s):  
Benaïssa Malek ◽  
Catherine Mabru ◽  
Michel Chaussumier

The purpose of the present research project is to study multiaxial fatigue behavior of 2618 alloy. The influence of mean stress on the fatigue behavior under tension and torsion is particularly investigated. Fatigue tests under combined tensile-torsion, in or out of phase, as well as combined tensile-torsion-internal pressure tests have also been conducted. Multiaxial fatigue results are analyzed according to Fatemi-Socie criterion to predict the fatigue life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 08002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Lamnii ◽  
Moussa Nait-Abdelaziz ◽  
Georges Ayoub ◽  
Jean-Michel Gloaguen ◽  
Ulrich Maschke ◽  
...  

Polymers operating in various weathering conditions must be assessed for lifetime performance. Particularly, ultraviolet (UV) radiations alters the chemical structure and therefore affect the mechanical and fatigue properties. The UV irradiation alters the polymer chemical structure, which results into a degradation of the mechanical and fatigue behavior of the polymer. The polymer properties degradation due to UV irradiation is the result of a competitive process of chain scission versus post-crosslinking. Although few studied investigated the effect of UV irradiation on the mechanical behaviour of thermoplastics, fewer examined the UV irradiation effect on the fatigue life of polymers. This study focuses on investigating the effect of UV irradiation on the fatigue properties of bulk semi-crystalline polymer; the low density Polyethylene (LDPE). Tensile specimens were exposed to different dose values of UV irradiation then subjected to fatigue loading. The fatigue tests were achieved under constant stress amplitude at a frequency of 1Hz. The results show an important decrease of the fatigue limit with increasing absorbed UV irradiation dose.


2012 ◽  
Vol 460 ◽  
pp. 407-410
Author(s):  
Yin Fang Jiang ◽  
Xian Cong He ◽  
Yu Huang ◽  
Jian Wen Zhang ◽  
Zhi Fei Li

Based on the FEM code ABAQUS and MSC.Fatigue, the process of LSP before hole-drilling was adopted to study the residual stress field of aluminum alloy7050T7451 with Fastener Holes after Laser shock processing (LSP), and the fatigue life of the specimens by LSP was analyzed in this paper. The results indicate that multiple laser shock processing can improve the residual compressive stress and fatigue life to a certain degree, and with the increasing number of shot, the strengthening effect gradually decreases. The ratio of the fatigue life of specimens treated by LSP to the fatigue life of untreated specimens is gradually decreased as the mean stress σm increases, and when the σm is 67.3MPa, the fatigue life of specimens treated by LSP advances 719%, compared with that of untreated specimens.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document