A New Criterion for Evaluating Multiaxial Fatigue Damage under Multiaxial Random Loading Conditions

Abstract:

Generally, mechanical components or structures are subjected to random and a three-dimensional stress state; there are very few field loading paths which can be experimentally fully simulated in laboratory. Loading path parameters such as load sequence, stress level or proportionality/non-proportionality presences are unknown variables with unknown levels under random loading conditions which are impossible to modulate in laboratory because the load spectra is unknown. The load spectrum depends on numerous factors such as environmental, mechanical or user behavior. At design stages the fatigue life estimation is based on typical loading paths or typical loading spectra, however that assumption may be very different from the usage regime. From here it can be concluded that the random multiaxial fatigue issue is of utmost importance to monitoring the in-field damage accumulation. This work presents a proposal to estimate the accumulated damage resulted from multiaxial random loadings based on the SSF equivalent stress and SSF virtual cycle counting concept.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 891-892)
• Pages: 1360-1365
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.891-892.1360
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Vitor Anes, Luís G. Reis*, Manuel de Freitas
• Keywords: Accumulated Damage, Cycle Counting, Fatigue, Random Multiaxial Fatigue, Variable Amplitude Loading

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