scholarly journals Fatigue Life Prediction of Composite Under Two Block Loading

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 587-590
Author(s):  
M. Bendouba ◽  
A. Aid ◽  
M. Benguediab

The damage evolution mechanism is one of the important focuses of fatigue behaviour investigation of composite materials and also the foundation to predict fatigue life of composite structures for engineering applications. This paper is dedicated to damage investigation of composite materials under two block loading cycle fatigue conditions. The loading sequence effect and the influence of the cycle ratio of the first stage on the cumulative fatigue life are studied. Two loading sequences, i.e., high-to-low and low-to-high cases are considered. The proposed damage indicator is connected cycle by cycle to the S-N curve and the experimental results are in agreement with model expectations. Previous experimental research is employed for validation.

2014 ◽  
Vol 697 ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
Qing Hui Ji ◽  
Ping Zhu ◽  
Jia Hai Lu ◽  
Chao Zhu

The loading sequence effect and life prediction of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite materials were experimentally investigated in this paper. All fatigue tests of block loading under four stress ratios R (including 0.1, 0.5, 10 and –1) were carried out on the servo-hydraulic Shimadzu testing machine. The fatigue damage index derived from the linear Palmgren–Miner rule was as reference to evaluate the damage degree. The life prediction model based on residual strength theory was proposed. The experimental results showed that the effect of loading sequence on the fatigue damage was obvious. The relation between the parameter of the proposed model and the stress ratio was studied depending to different failure mode. At last, the contrast of prediction and experimental data indicated that the proposed model had enough accuracy to predict fatigue life of block loading for composite materials.


2006 ◽  
Vol 514-516 ◽  
pp. 804-809
Author(s):  
S. Gao ◽  
Ewald Werner

The forging die material, a high strength steel designated W513 is considered in this paper. A fatigue damage model, based on thermodynamics and continuum damage mechanics, is constructed in which both the previous damage and the loading sequence are considered. The unknown material parameters in the model are identified from low cycle fatigue tests. Damage evolution under multi-level fatigue loading is investigated. The results show that the fatigue life is closely related to the loading sequence. The fatigue life of the materials with low fatigue loading first followed by high fatigue loading is longer than that for the reversed loading sequence.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Wei Wang ◽  
De-Guang Shang ◽  
Yu-Juan Sun

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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 06 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
HO-YOUNG YANG ◽  
JAE-HOON KIM ◽  
KEUN-BONG YOO

Co -base superalloys have been applied in the stationary components of gas turbine owing to their excellent high temperature properties. Low cycle fatigue data on ECY-768 reported in a companion paper were used to evaluate fatigue life prediction models. In this study, low cycle fatigue tests are performed as the variables of total strain range and temperatures. The relations between plastic and total strain energy densities and number of cycles to failure are examined in order to predict the low cycle fatigue life of Cobalt-based super alloy at different temperatures. The fatigue lives is evaluated using predicted by Coffin-Manson method and strain energy methods is compared with the measured fatigue lives at different temperatures. The microstructure observing was performed for how affect able to low-cycle fatigue life by increasing the temperature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 05013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kopas ◽  
Milan Sága ◽  
František Nový ◽  
Bohuš Leitner

The article presents the results of research on low cycle fatigue strength of laser welded joints vs. non-welded material of high-strength steel DOMEX 700 MC. The tests were performed under load controlled using the total strain amplitude ɛac. The operating principle of the special electro-mechanic fatigue testing equipment with a suitable clamping system was working on 35 Hz frequency. Fatigue life analysis was conducted based on the Manson-Coffin-Basquin equation, which made it possible to determine fatigue parameters. Studies have shown differences in the fatigue life of original specimens and laser welded joints analysed, where laser welded joints showed lower fatigue resistance. In this article a numerical analysis of stresses generated in bending fatigue specimens has been performed employing the commercially available FEM-program ADINA.


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