Essential Characteristics and Frequency Effect for Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Steels

Abstract:

With the increase of design fatigue life of many critical mechanical components and engineering structures, research on very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) has become a new topic for engineering components failure. This paper summarizes works of VHCF of high strength steel, such as the observations on fish-eye, which is one of the typical characteristics in VHCF regime; Characteristics of crack initiation and crack propagation are analyzed based on fracture surface; The present work also analyzes the fatigue mechanism and related models. Loading frequency effect on the VHCF behavior is also discussed. Some prospective aspects of future researches are proposed.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 664)
• Pages: 168-174
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.664.168
• Online since: September 2015
• Authors: Zong Min Lv, Bo Lin He*
• Keywords: Fatigue Failure, Frequency Effect, S-N Curve, Very High Cycle Fatigue

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