Influence of the Mean Load Value in Fatigue Block Loading on Strains
This paper presents the results of the fatigue tests of the specimens made from S3555 steel and aluminum alloy AlCu4MgSi subjected to bending block loading with mean load value. The influence of the changes of the mean load conditions was investigated. During the tests strains were registered and relation between the load and the strains was analyzed. In the case of S355 steel it was observed, that additional hardening occurs when higher value of the mean load is applied at the beginning of the block loading. Other case, when the mean load was increased from zero to maximum, a creep effect of the material was registered. For the specimens made from aluminum alloy similar processes were not …
The influence of the mean stress on fatigue life of 10HNAP steel under random loading
Abstract This paper contains the results of uniaxial random load fatigue tests with different mean values performed on 10HNAP steel specimens. The experimental fatigue life was compared with the life determined according to different methods of amplitude transformation of the cycles. Cycles were counted with the rain flow algorithm and damage was cumulated with the Palmgren–Miner hypothesis. It has been shown that in the case of “symmetric” stress histories with zero expected values, the mean values of selected cycles do not strongly influence the calculated fatigue life and transformation of the cycle amplitudes; hence, no mean stress correction for cycle mean values different from zero is…
Energy Based Characterization of Fatigue Behaviour of Cyclically Unstable Materials
The paper presents a definition of a new energy based parameter which allows to better describe fatigue proprieties of materials, especially cyclically unstable materials in comparison with the Lagoda-Macha parameter. The proposed parameter distinguishes positive and negative work of external force and depends on the sign of the stresses in paths of strain in materials. It is used in laboratory tests for control of a fatigue process on hydraulic stand. A close-loop control system has been equipped with computer program based on MATLAB/Simulink module.
Application of an energy model for fatigue life prediction of construction steels under bending, torsion and synchronous bending and torsion
Abstract The paper contains a mathematical model of the material’s behaviour under cyclic loading taking into account the dynamics of the fatigue process, including the number of cycles to failure, induced by the mean stress value. The coefficients in the proposed model have been obtained from experimental tests under symmetrical and nonsymmetrical loading (with the stress ratio R =0). The proposed model has been used in order to modify an energy criterion with the aim of accounting for the influence of the mean stress on the fatigue life. The fatigue tests have been performed for structural steels 10HNAP and 18G2A subjected to cyclic bending, torsion and synchronous bending with torsion, b…
Mechatronic Concept for Airflow Tests Laboratory Equipment
The paper presents application of the mechatronic concept for laboratory test to support a research activity. Laboratory test is taken into account as set of processes for which some number of environmental parameters must be controlled. This paper describes the laboratory stand for investigations of airflow phenomena, where modern data acquisition system is applied to control pressure, temperature and velocity of the air stream. To acquire and process a large number of data, the idea of virtual instruments is introduced to control system. Modern, high-level graphical language was used and the author’s program was developed. The presented solution of the laboratory stand allows increasing t…