Electrical creep and fatigue in 0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 ceramics

Author(s):  
Moolchand Sharma ◽  
Satyanarayan Patel ◽  
A. Arockiarajan ◽  
Rahul Vaish

In this study, the creep and fatigue characterization is performed for 0.5Ba(Zr[Formula: see text]Ti[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text]0.5(Ba[Formula: see text]Ca[Formula: see text]TiO3 (BZT-BCT) bulk ferroelectric ceramics. A function generator is used to generate the required waveform of the voltage amplifier for fatigue and creep analysis. The evolution of polarization is studied for electrical creep. The effects of temperature and electric field on the electric displacement are studied. Hysteresis–butterfly loops are analyzed for fatigue tests for different thermal loads up to 106 cycles. It inheres that the material is stable below 75[Formula: see text]C and can withstand high cycle fatigue loads (25 Hz, ± 1.5 kV/mm).

Author(s):  
Marina C. Vasco ◽  
Panagiota Polydoropoulou ◽  
Apostolos N. Chamos ◽  
Spiros G. Pantelakis

In a series of applications, steel reinforced concrete structures are subjected to fatigue loads during their service life, what in most cases happens in corrosive environments. Surface treatments have been proved to represent proper processes in order to improve both fatigue and corrosion resistances. In this work, the effect of corrosion and sandblasting on the high cycle fatigue behavior reinforcing steel bars is investigated. The investigated material is the reinforcing steel bar of technical class B500C, of nominal diameter of 12 mm. Steel bars specimens were first exposed to corrosion in alternate salt spray environment for 30 and 60 days and subjected to both tensile and fatigue tests. Then, a series of specimens were subjected to common sandblasting, corroded and mechanically tested. Metallographic investigation and corrosion damage evaluation regarding mass loss and martensitic area reduction were performed. Tensile tests were conducted after each corrosion exposure period prior to the fatigue tests. Fatigue tests were performed at a stress ratio, R, of 0.1 and loading frequency of 20 Hz. All fatigue tests series as well as tensile test were also performed for as received steel bars to obtain the reference behavior. The results have shown that sandblasting hardly affects the tensile behavior of the uncorroded material. The effect of sandblasting on the tensile behavior of pre-corroded specimens seems to be also limited. On the other hand, fatigue results indicate an improved fatigue behavior for the sandblasted material after 60 days of corrosion exposure. Martensitic area reductions, mass loss and depth of the pits were significantly smaller for the case of sandblasted materials, which confirms an increased corrosion resistance.


PCI Journal ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörn Remitz ◽  
Martin Empelmann

Pretensioned concrete beams are widely used as bridge girders for simply supported bridges. Understanding the fatigue behavior of such beams is very important for design and construction to prevent fatigue failure. The fatigue behavior of pretensioned concrete beams is mainly influenced by the fatigue of the prestressing strands. The evaluation of previous test results from the literature indicated a reduced fatigue life in the long-life region compared with current design methods and specifications. Therefore, nine additional high-cycle fatigue tests were conducted on pretensioned concrete beams with strand stress ranges of about 100 MPa (14.5 ksi). The test results confirmed that current design methods and specifications overestimate the fatigue life of embedded strands in pretensioned concrete beams.


2011 ◽  
Vol 295-297 ◽  
pp. 2386-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren Hui Tian ◽  
Qiao Lin Ouyang ◽  
Qing Yuan Wang

In order to investigate the effect of plasma nitriding treatment on fatigue behavior of titanium alloys, very high cycle fatigue tests were carried out for Ti-6Al-4V alloy using an ultrasonic fatigue machine under load control conditions for stress ratios of R=-1 at frequency of ƒ=20KHz. Experiment results showed that plasma nitriding treatment played the principal role in the internal fatigue crack initiation. More importantly, plasma nitriding treatment had a detrimental effect on fatigue properties of the investigated Ti-6Al-4V alloy, and the fatigue strength of material after plasma nitriding treatment appeared to be significantly reduced about 17% over the untreated material.


Author(s):  
Y Su ◽  
G.J Weng

Most key elements of ferroelectric properties are defined through the hysteresis loops. For a ferroelectric ceramic, its loop is contributed collectively by its constituent grains, each having its own hysteresis loop when the ceramic polycrystal is under a cyclic electric field. In this paper, we propose a polycrystal hysteresis model so that the hysteresis loop of a ceramic can be calculated from the loops of its constituent grains. In this model a micromechanics-based thermodynamic approach is developed to determine the hysteresis behaviour of the constituent grains, and a self-consistent scheme is introduced to translate these behaviours to the polycrystal level. This theory differs from the classical phenomenological ones in that it is a micromechanics-based thermodynamic approach and it can provide the evolution of new domain concentration among the constituent grains. It also differs from some recent micromechanics studies in its secant form of self-consistent formulation and in its application of irreversible thermodynamics to derive the kinetic equation of domain growth. To put this two-level micromechanics theory in perspective, it is applied to a ceramic PLZT 8/65/35, to calculate its hysteresis loop between the electric displacement and the electric field ( D versus E ), and the butterfly-shaped longitudinal strain versus the electric field relation ( ϵ versus E ). The calculated results are found to be in good quantitative agreement with the test data. The corresponding evolution of new domain concentration c 1 and the individual hysteresis loops of several selected grains—along with those of the overall polycrystal—are also illustrated.


Author(s):  
Melody Mojib ◽  
Rishi Pahuja ◽  
M. Ramulu ◽  
Dwayne Arola

Abstract Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) has become a popular method for producing complex and unique geometries, especially gaining traction in the aerospace and medical industries. With the increase in adoption of AM and the high cost of powder, it is critical to understand the effects of powder recycling on part performance to move towards material qualification and certification of affordable printed components. Due to the limitations of the Electron Beam Melting (EBM) process, current as-printed components are susceptible to failure at limits far below wrought metals and further understanding of the material properties and fatigue life is required. In this study, a high strength Titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V, is recycled over time and used to print fatigue specimens using the EBM process. Uniaxial High Cycle Fatigue tests have been performed on as-printed and polished cylindrical specimens and the locations of crack initiation and propagation have been determined through the use of a scanning electron microscope. This investigation has shown that the rough surface exterior is far more detrimental to performance life than the powder degradation occurring due to powder reuse. In addition, the effects of the rough surface exterior as a stress concentration is evaluated using the Arola-Ramulu. The following is a preliminary study of the effects powder recycling and surface treatments on EBM Ti-6Al4V fatigue life.


2018 ◽  
Vol 916 ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
Ilhamdi ◽  
Toshifumi Kakiuchi ◽  
Hiromi Miura ◽  
Yoshihiko Uematsu

Tension-tension fatigue tests were conducted using ultrafine-grained commercially pure Titanium (Ti) plates fabricated by multi-directional forging (MDFing). The MDFed pure Ti plates with the thickness of 1 mm were developed aiming at dental implant application. The fatigue properties of MDFed pure Ti plates were superior to those of the conventional rolled pure Ti plates. The higher fatigue strengths in MDFed plates could be attributed to the much finer grains evolved by MDFing. Fatigue crack initiated from specimen surface, when number of cycles to failure was shorter than 106 cycles. In the high cycle fatigue (HCF) region, however, subsurface crack initiation with typical fish-eye feature was recognized in the MDFed pure Ti plate in spite of the thin thickness. Fractographic analyses revealed that no inclusion existed at the center of fish-eye. The subsurface crack initiation mechanism could be related to the inhomogeneity of microstructure with some coarse grains in the inner part of the plate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 810 ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Pavel Konopík ◽  
Radek Procházka ◽  
Martin Rund ◽  
Jan Džugan

In the present paper, two novel methods for determining the fatigue limit are presented. Despite the fact that these methods are different in principle, both represent a new approach to testing where the main benefit is reduced consumption of material. The first method is based on small round specimens and can be considered as one of semi-destructive testing methods. The second method is based on infrared thermographic analysis and requires only one specimen. Results obtained with these techniques were compared with those obtained from standard high-cycle force-controlled fatigue tests under constant loading until failure.


2007 ◽  
Vol 546-549 ◽  
pp. 1535-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ying Zeng ◽  
Yong Qing Zhao ◽  
Xiao Nan Mao ◽  
Yun Lian Qi

Tensile and high cycle fatigue (HCF) property for TiC particle reinforced titanium matrix composite has been studied in this paper. The results indicated that the composite possessed favorite comprehensive properties. The tensile properties for the composite are superior to that of the common high temperature titanium alloys, e.g. IMI834, Ti-1100. Smooth axial fatigue tests were taken at a frequency of 76Hz with a load ratio R of 0.06 and –1, respectively. And HCF strength for the composite at ambient temperature is 595MPa and 494MPa, respectively.


2016 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 595-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vít Horník ◽  
Miroslav Šmíd ◽  
Pavel Hutař ◽  
Ludvík Kunz ◽  
Karel Hrbáček

The study deals with the interaction of creep and high cycle fatigue of cast polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy IN 713LC at high temperatures. Previous works indicated that creep lifetime of superalloy structures was un-affected or even slightly increased in the cases with superimposed vibrations. The reason for this behaviour was not well described up to now. Therefore, set of fatigue tests was conducted at high mean stresses level to observe this phenomenon. The mean stress was kept constant while the stress amplitudes were selected in order to measure wide range of conditions from pure creep to pure fatigue. Fractographic analysis by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was done with the aim to identify governing damage mechanisms for particular test conditions as a preliminary evaluation of conducted tests.


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