DIC Strain Monitoring during Fatigue of Cold-Formed High Strength Steel

Abstract:

Owing to the progressive use of cold-formed high strength steel (HSS) for transportation applications, a characterisation of the fatigue behaviour of HSS has become a focal point for material scientists and design engineers. To mimic the behaviour of cold-formed components, a specimen was adopted from previous research that features multiple bent sections. The geometry was obtained by consecutive bending operations at room temperature. When subsequent tensile cyclic loading is applied to the specimen, the localised damage from forming and stress concentrations cause crack initiation on the inside of the bent area. To investigate the effect of cold-forming on the fatigue behaviour experimentally, the evolution of the strain, displacement or stiffness can be monitored during fatigue testing. The current paper presents an experimental framework for investigating the strain fields of a bent specimen during fatigue. The evolution of the strain fields is then linked with characteristic fatigue mechanisms, such as crack initiation and growth.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 926)
• Pages: 1000-1006
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-bx41h4
• Online since: July 2022
• Authors: Sanjay Gothivarekar*, Albert Van Bael, Reza Talemi, Sam Coppieters
• Keywords: Cold-Forming, Digital Image Correlation, Fatigue, High Strength Steel

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