Energy Dissipation and Self-Heating due to Microplastic Deformation Mechanisms at Very High Cycle Fatigue for Single-Phase Ductile Metals

Abstract:

This paper aims at a deeper understanding of mechanisms leading to crack initiation in ductile metals in Very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF). The VHCF regime is associated with stress amplitudes lower than the conventional fatigue limit and numbers of cycles higher than 10⁹. Tests were conducted using an ultrasonic technique at loading frequency of 20 kHz. The mechanisms leading to crack initiation express via slip bands at the specimen surface and self-heating due to intrinsic dissipation. Thermal maps were used to estimate the mean dissipation and its change with number of cycles and stress amplitudes in case of pure copper polycrystals. At the same time, the surface relief changes due to plasticity were characterized using optical and scanning electronic microscopes. A good correlation was found between slip band initiation and dissipation. Dissipation and slip band amount always increased over the number of cycles. At very small stress amplitudes, no slip band appeared up to 10⁸ cycles but the material was found to dissipate energy. Results derived from tests performed at high loading frequency on pure cupper specimens showed a drift of dissipative regimes incompatible with concepts of fatigue limit and/or asymptotic cyclic stability. These results reveal that the material never reached a steady state. Therefore it could break at higher number of cycles.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 783-786)
• Pages: 2278-2283
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.783-786.2278
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Véronique Favier*, Antoine Blanche, Ngoc Lam Phung, Nicolas Ranc, André Chrysochoos
• Keywords: Copper, Fatigue Limit, Heating, Persistent Slip Bands, Ultrasonic Fatigue

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