Accelerated Determination of the Fatigue Limit and the S-N Curve by Means of the Thermographic Method for C45 Steel

Abstract:

The paper presents a new thermographic method that enables simultaneous accelerated determination of the fatigue limit and the S-N curve. In the presented method, the fatigue limit was determined assuming a constant rate of temperature rise occurring in the second phase of a specimen fatigue life. The S-N curve was developed based on energy-related parameter with the assumption of its dependency on the stress amplitude. The tests made on C45 steel under reversed bending revealed that the fatigue limit value obtained from accelerated thermographic tests as compared to the value obtained using Staircase method differs by 10.0% maximum.The S-N curve obtained by accelerated thermographic method fits inside 95% confidence interval for the S-N curve obtained from the full test.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 250)
• Pages: 106-113
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.250.106
• Online since: April 2016
• Authors: Adam Lipski*
• Keywords: Fatigue Limit, IR Thermography, S-N Curve

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