An Evaluation of the Nominal Stress Method for Life Prediction of Cylindrical Circumferential V-Notched Specimens Tested under Variable Amplitude Loading

Abstract:

An experimental device was constructed with the aim of testing various cylindrical V-notched specimens until fracture and under variable amplitude torsional loads. The specimens had different notch depths resulting in the same number of values for the stress concentration factor. Strain gages directly bonded at the specimens’ surface and using a slip ring system for their communication with the conditioner, allowed the measurement of the actual applied loads. The well-known rain flow cycle counting procedure was then applied on the scaled signal for identifying the frequency of the 64 classes of stress amplitudes and means. The traditional nominal stress-based approach was then evaluated as the most widely used tool for fatigue lifetime calculations. As the occurrence of stress amplitudes above the endurance fatigue limit tends to lower it, the Miner elementary method was used. The results show damage sum ranges between 0.5 and 6.4 with a mean value of 2.0. Despite the small size of the sample used in the present paper (only 13 tests), these significant deviations are in agreement with previous results reported by different researchers.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 851)
• Pages: 310-316
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.851.310
• Online since: August 2016
• Authors: Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Duran*, Dionisio Jose Rodrigues da Costa
• Keywords: Fatigue Damage Accumulation, Fatigue Lifetime Calculation, Nominal Stress Method, Rain-Flow Cycle Counting Method, Variable Amplitude Loading

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