Refinement and Verification of the Structural Stress Method for Fatigue Life Prediction of Resistance Spot Welds Under Variable Amplitude Loads

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheri Sheppard ◽  
Ning Pan ◽  
Zhengxian Bai ◽  
Yih-Chyun Sheu
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Fatigue Life Prediction ◽  
Structural Stress ◽  
Spot Welds ◽  
Variable Amplitude ◽  
Resistance Spot ◽  
Resistance Spot Welds

A weight function method for multiaxial low-cycle fatigue life prediction under variable amplitude loading

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Wei Wang ◽  
De-Guang Shang ◽  
Yu-Juan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Weight Function ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Function Method ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Life Prediction ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Critical Plane ◽  
Variable Amplitude ◽  
Weight Function Method

A weight function method based on strain parameters is proposed to determine the critical plane in low-cycle fatigue region under both constant and variable amplitude tension–torsion loadings. The critical plane is defined by the weighted mean maximum absolute shear strain plane. Combined with the critical plane determined by the proposed method, strain-based fatigue life prediction models and Wang-Brown’s multiaxial cycle counting method are employed to predict the fatigue life. The experimental critical plane orientation and fatigue life data under constant and variable amplitude tension–torsion loadings are used to verify the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method is appropriate to determine the critical plane under both constant and variable amplitude loadings.

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