An improved fatigue life model for mechanical components considering load strengthening characteristics

Author(s):  
Jiazhi Liu ◽  
Xintian Liu ◽  
Minghui Zhang ◽  
Shuci Wang
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuci Wang ◽  
Xintian Liu ◽  
Changjie Jiang ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Xiaolan Wang

2011 ◽  
Vol 197-198 ◽  
pp. 1599-1603
Author(s):  
Zhen Wei Wang ◽  
Ping An Du ◽  
Ya Ting Yu

Mechanical components are subjected heavy alternate load in industries, such as engine crankshaft, wheel axle, etc. The fatigue failure happens after a long work loading, which affects the production cost, safe and time. So the fatigue life predication is fundamental for the mechanical components design. Especially, it is very important for heavy, high-speed machinery. In this paper, both main fatigue life predication formulas are introduced briefly, including Manson-Coffinn formula and Damage strain model. Then, shortages of above life predication formulas are pointed out, and coefficients are explained in detail. Further calculation error analysis is conducted on the basis of experiments on 16 materials. Results show that above life predication formulas lack calculation accuracy. Finally, it is pointed out that coefficients of fatigue life predication formulas are dependent of material performance. So it is unreliable that coefficients are constants for Manson-Coffin and Damage strain model.


Author(s):  
S. M. Bresney ◽  
A. Saigal

Ribbon or wire bonding is a common manufacturing process used in the microelectronic industry to make interconnections between electronic components. This process is used because it can make up for misalignment and inconsistent spacing between the components due to tolerance stack ups. In addition, since the ribbons are not rigid they will flex and absorb any stresses that develop when the components expand and contract in the field due to temperature changes. This paper investigates the use of a mechanical method to exercise ribbons in this fashion until they failed. Ribbons of a constant profile but different sizes were exercised at different levels of stress to develop a fatigue life model. It is found that ribbons exercised only a small percentage of their overall span survive exponentially longer than the same ribbons exercised at a higher percentage of their overall span. In addition, at short span lengths relative to the thickness, the ribbon becomes less ‘thread like’ and more stiff. The model developed in this study can be used for designing ribbon size and shape based upon expected thermal expansion cycling and necessary life or reliability.


Author(s):  
Jun Tang ◽  
Young Ho Park

This paper introduces a maintenance decision-making strategy in the general area of replacement and reliability of mechanical components. The decision-making strategy involves the optimization of replacement interval based on fatigue failure of mechanical components. This new approach is based on the cumulative damage distribution function for evaluating mean fatigue life. By using the approach, the analytical expressions for the mean and the variance of the cumulative damage distribution under both stationary narrow-band and stationary wide-band random process are provided. The mean value and variance of the fatigue life distribution are thus evaluated to determine the optimal replacement intervals under fatigue failure. An algorithm of evaluating the mean and standard deviation of fatigue life is also presented. Therefore, the reliability of a component under random cyclic loading for a specified duration is quantified accordingly. Even though the new method introduces a great deal of complexity in the analytical models, this method can efficiently determine replacement intervals for component whose operating costs increases with use and replacement intervals for component subject to failure induced by the random process. An example is presented to demonstrate the application of the present method.


Author(s):  
Yanbin Luo ◽  
Yanrong Wang ◽  
Bo Zhong ◽  
Jiazhe Zhao ◽  
Xiaojie Zhang

The effects of stress gradient and size effect on fatigue life are investigated based on the distributions of stress at notch root of the notched specimens of GH4169 alloy. The relationship between the life of the notched specimens and the smooth specimens is correlated by introducing the stress gradient effect factor, and a new life model of predicting the notched specimens based on the Walker modification for the mean stress effect is established. In order to improve the prediction precision of life model with the equation parameters having a definite physical significance, the relationships among fatigue parameters, monotonic ultimate tensile strength and reduction of area are established. Three-dimensional elastic finite element (FE) analysis of a vortex reducer is carried out to obtain the data of stress and strain for predicting its life. The results show that there is a high-stress gradient at the edge of the air holes of the vortex reducer, and it is thus a dangerous point for fatigue crack initiation. The prediction result of the vortex reducer is more reasonable if the mean stress, stress gradient and size effect are considered comprehensively. The developed life model can reflect the effects of many factors well, especially the stress concentration. The life of the notched specimens predicted by this model give a high estimation precision, and the prediction life data mainly fall into the scatter band of factor 2.


Author(s):  
Chengwei Wen ◽  
Xianghui Meng ◽  
Bugao Lyu ◽  
Jiaming Gu ◽  
Lin Xiao

To study the angular misalignment effects on the high-speed micro ball bearing which is applied to the dental handpiece, an improved five-degree-of-freedom quasi-dynamic model considering full multibody interactions is established in this paper. Then the modified fatigue life model presented by Jones is adopted to further evaluate the influence of angular misalignment on the reliability of the bearing. The results show that the angular misalignment significantly influences the contact load and contact angle distributions as well as the skidding behavior under both pure axial load and combined axial and radial loads. After comprehensive comparison, it is found that the impacts of angular misalignment on total power loss and bearing fatigue life are different under the two types of loads. Under pure axial load, the total power loss increases consistently and the bearing fatigue life decreases significantly when the absolute value of angular misalignment becomes larger. However, under combined axial and radial loads, the effects of angular misalignment are rather complicated and the direction of angular misalignment turns out to be a key influencing factor.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaehyeok Doh ◽  
Jongsoo Lee

Abstract In this study, a model for probabilistic fatigue life that is based on the Zhurkov model is suggested using stochastically and statistically estimated lethargy coefficients. The fatigue life model was derived using the Zhurkov life model, and it was deterministically validated using real fatigue life data as a reference. For this process, firstly, a lethargy coefficient that is related to the failure of materials must be obtained with rupture time and stress from a quasi-static tensile test. These experiments are performed using HS40R steel. However, the lethargy coefficient has discrepancies due to the inherent uncertainty and the variation of material properties in the experiments. The Bayesian approach was employed for estimating the lethargy coefficient of the fatigue life model using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling method and considering its uncertainties. Once the samples are obtained, one can proceed to the posterior predictive inference of the fatigue life. This life model was shown to be reasonable when compared with experimental fatigue life data. As a result, predicted fatigue life was observed to significantly decrease in accordance with increasing relative stress conditions. Highlights Zhurkov fatigue life model is deterministically validated with experiments. Prediction of the S-N curve using Zhurkov fatigue model and lethargy coefficients. Lethargy coefficients of Zhurkov fatigue model are estimated by Bayesian updating. Bayesian updating is useful for quantifying the uncertainty of unknown parameters.


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