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Fatigue-life predictions including the effects of hold time and multiaxial loads on crack-coalescence behaviour

Fatigue-life predictions including the effects of hold time and multiaxial loads on crack-coalescence behaviour
Fatigue-life predictions including the effects of hold time and multiaxial loads on crack-coalescence behaviour
Two aspects of crack-coalescence behavior are reported. The first concerns a regime frequently referred to in the literature as creep-fatigue interactions but which in this paper is essentially a time-dependent, fatigue-failure process. The second relates to crack coalescence under a wide range of different multiaxial stress-strain states. In the framework of the first approach, a fatigue-crack growth model is derived based on experimental observations during high-temperature, high-strain, reversed-bend, hold-time tests on AISI 316 stainless steel. Essential features of these tests are the compressive and the tensile 60-min hold periods on different surfaces, which induce, respectively, transgranular-short and intergranular-long cracks. The latter, more damaging cracks involve the coalescence of numerous short cracks to form a dominant Stage II crack that leads to failure. Then, in the framework of the second approach, the crack-coalescence model is advanced to predict the fatigue lifetimes for multiaxial, variable amplitude, proportional loading of a medium carbon steel commonly used to manufacture engineering components. It is shown that under high strain fatigue conditions the models used for the calculations of lifetime must necessarily involve crack-coalescence behavior if unsafe lifetime predictions are to be avoided
0039-2316
502-516
Brown, M.W.
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Gao, N.
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Miller, K. J.
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Brown, M.W.
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Gao, N.
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Miller, K. J.
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Brown, M.W., Gao, N. and Miller, K. J. (2000) Fatigue-life predictions including the effects of hold time and multiaxial loads on crack-coalescence behaviour. Strength of Materials, 32 (6), 502-516. (doi:10.1023/A:1005200314976).

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Two aspects of crack-coalescence behavior are reported. The first concerns a regime frequently referred to in the literature as creep-fatigue interactions but which in this paper is essentially a time-dependent, fatigue-failure process. The second relates to crack coalescence under a wide range of different multiaxial stress-strain states. In the framework of the first approach, a fatigue-crack growth model is derived based on experimental observations during high-temperature, high-strain, reversed-bend, hold-time tests on AISI 316 stainless steel. Essential features of these tests are the compressive and the tensile 60-min hold periods on different surfaces, which induce, respectively, transgranular-short and intergranular-long cracks. The latter, more damaging cracks involve the coalescence of numerous short cracks to form a dominant Stage II crack that leads to failure. Then, in the framework of the second approach, the crack-coalescence model is advanced to predict the fatigue lifetimes for multiaxial, variable amplitude, proportional loading of a medium carbon steel commonly used to manufacture engineering components. It is shown that under high strain fatigue conditions the models used for the calculations of lifetime must necessarily involve crack-coalescence behavior if unsafe lifetime predictions are to be avoided

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Published date: 2000

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Local EPrints ID: 22943
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/22943
ISSN: 0039-2316
PURE UUID: f9435911-162e-4e6b-a272-038c75520500
ORCID for N. Gao: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7430-0319

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Date deposited: 06 Feb 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:21

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Author: M.W. Brown
Author: N. Gao ORCID iD
Author: K. J. Miller

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