Method of low-cycle fatigue test results processing

There is considered the method of proceeding during elaboration of low-cycle fatigue test results of metals. Presented method enables to determine the material data in various periods of fatigue life. The results obtained with the use of proposed method allow taking into account during fatigue life...

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Method of low-cycle fatigue test results processing/ S. Mroziński, A. Lipski // Фізико-хімічна механіка матеріалів. — 2012. — Т. 48, № 1. — С. 79-82. — Бібліогр.: 5 назв. — англ.
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There is considered the method of proceeding during elaboration of low-cycle fatigue test results of metals. Presented method enables to determine the material data in various periods of fatigue life. The results obtained with the use of proposed method allow taking into account during fatigue life calculations as the visible changes of cyclic properties of material. The above is of special importance in the case of material characterized by the absence of stabilization period.
Подано новий метод аналізу результатів мaлoциклoвих випробувань металів на втому, який дає змогу визначити характеристики матеріалів на різних стадіях втоми. Отримані дані можуть бути використані для розрахунків втомної довговічності елементів конструкцій.
Представлен новый метод анализа результатов мaлoциклoвых испытаний металлов на усталость, который позволяет определить характеристики материалов на разных стадиях усталости. Полученные данные могут быть использованы для расчета усталостной долговечности элементов конструкций.
This paper was realized in the framework of the grant no. 1215/B/T02/2011/40 funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education in 2011-2013.
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Фізико-механічний інститут ім. Г.В. Карпенка НАН України
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Method of low-cycle fatigue test results processing
Эффективный метод обработки результатов испытаний на малоцикловую усталость
Ефективний метод обробки результатів випробувань на малоциклову втом
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description There is considered the method of proceeding during elaboration of low-cycle fatigue test results of metals. Presented method enables to determine the material data in various periods of fatigue life. The results obtained with the use of proposed method allow taking into account during fatigue life calculations as the visible changes of cyclic properties of material. The above is of special importance in the case of material characterized by the absence of stabilization period. Подано новий метод аналізу результатів мaлoциклoвих випробувань металів на втому, який дає змогу визначити характеристики матеріалів на різних стадіях втоми. Отримані дані можуть бути використані для розрахунків втомної довговічності елементів конструкцій. Представлен новый метод анализа результатов мaлoциклoвых испытаний металлов на усталость, который позволяет определить характеристики материалов на разных стадиях усталости. Полученные данные могут быть использованы для расчета усталостной долговечности элементов конструкций.
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fulltext 79 Ô³çèêî-õ³ì³÷íà ìåõàí³êà ìàòåð³àë³â. – 2012. – ¹ 1. – Physicochemical Mechanics of Materials METHOD OF LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE TEST RESULTS PROCESSING S. MROZIŃSKI , A. LIPSKI University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz, Poland There is considered the method of proceeding during elaboration of low-cycle fatigue test results of metals. Presented method enables to determine the material data in various periods of fatigue life. The results obtained with the use of proposed method allow taking into account during fatigue life calculations as the visible changes of cyclic properties of material. The above is of special importance in the case of material characterized by the absence of stabilization period. Keywords: low-cycle fatigue, mechanical properties. In the method of fatigue life calculations, which is based on local strain and stress, analysis [1] the material data determined in fatigue tests in the low-cycle fatigue area are used. The test realization and elaboration of the results correspond to ASTM E 606-04: Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing. According to the directions in this document the low-cycle properties of metals are determined on the base of con- stant – amplitude test on several (five minimum) levels of controlled stress or strain [2]. On each strain or stress level at least three fatigue tests are performed. During each fatigue test for the selected loading cycles momentary values of loading force and strain of the specimen are recorded. Recorded stress and strain values enable to carry out the analysis of the basic hysteresis loop parameters and to define relations between them. One of the two characteristics evaluated on the base of the performed fatigue tests is the diagram of cyclic strain describing the relation between plastic strain amplitude εap and stress amplitude σa. It is assumed that there is the exponential relation between these parameters from the stabilization period. In the bilogarithmic coordinate system this relation is described with the Morrow equation [3] lg lg lga apK n′ ′σ = + ε , (1) where K′ is exponent of the diagram, n′ is directional coefficient of the diagram (coeffi- cient of hardening). The n′ and K′ parameters of equation (1) are the basic material data used during fatigue life calculations. There are no doubts about the presented method of results elaboration in the case of cyclically stable materials. They are obvious, ho- wever, in the case of materials characterized by the changes of cyclic properties they do not reveal the period of stabilization. In the papers on low-cycle fatigue tests of metals [4] it can be found that the period of stabilization of metals and their alloys is very short or even it is absent [5]. For such materials the necessary hysteresis loop parameters (σa and εap) are obtained from the period which corresponds to the half-life n/N = 0.5, where N is fatigue life on the given loading level until failure, n = 0.5N. The method of the determination of hysteresis loop parameters, in the case when there is no stabilization period, is presented in Fig. 1. Schematically the example of the changes of diagrams of one of the parameters (σa), which can be found in equation (1) is shown for five values of total strain εac. Corresponding author: S. MROZIŃSKI, e-mail: Stanislaw.Mrozinski @utp.edu.pl 80 It results from the course of σa changes that the material undergoes visible weakening. Points marked with a circle on individual stress diagrams indicate the fatigue half-life (0.5n/N) at each level of total strain εac. The values of n′ and K′ parameters obtained as the result of coordinates approximation of these points with the equation (1) de- scribe only the momentary cyclic pro- perties of the material from the life pe- riod n/N = 0.5. During fatigue life calcu- lations they are informally approxima- ted for the whole range of fatigue life. Such an approach in determination of material data can be one of the reasons of the calculations and test results diversification for many metals and their alloys [5]. The basic aim of this paper is the analysis of the influence of the material damage degree on the momentary parameters of equation (1). The additional aim is the evalua- tion of the possibility of analytical description of material data in various periods of fatigue life. Test procedure. Tests were carried out with the use of specimens made of AW2024 aluminium alloy (σu = 514 MPa, σy = 322 MPa). The specimens for the tests were prepared according to standard [1]. Shape and di- mensions (in mm) of the spe- cimen are presented in Fig. 2. Tests were carried out at five values of strain εac. Total strain amplitude (εac = const) was the controled parameter during fatigue tests. Detailed chart of the tests is presented in Table. During fatigue tests for the selected loading cycles the momentary values of loading and strain were recorded. As the criterion of the fatigue tests termination on each value of strain εac there was accepted about 5% decreasing of the loading force in the half-cycle of tension in relation to its value from period of saturation. New method of tests results processing and its verification. The loading and strain values recorded for the selected cycles of loading were processed in order do determine the changes of the basic hysteresis loop parameters, namely εap and σa. Mo- mentary stress in the specimen σ was determined by dividing the momentary value of the loading by the cross-section area of the specimen. With the use of maximum (σmax) and minimum (σmin) stress values the value of stress amplitude σa was evalua- ted. Similar way of pro- ceeding was accepted in the case of plastic strain amplitude εap determina- tion. In Fig. 3 the example of the diagrams of two Fig. 1. Method of tests results processing with the use of the classical method (material without a stabilization period). Fig. 2. Test specimen. Table. Parameters of loading courses Loading course Parameters εac1 = 0.5% εac2 = 0.65% εac3 = 0.8% εac4 = 1.0% εac5 = 1.5% f = 0.2 Hz 81 hysteresis loop parameters (εap and σa) in the function of loading cycles number is shown. Fig. 3. Courses of changes of hysteresis loop parameters σa (a) and εap (b): 1 – εac = 0.5%; 2 – 0.65; 3 – 0.8; 4 – 1.0; 5 – 1.5%. As it was expected the visible period of cyclic properties stabilization was not observed. With the increase of the loading cycle number n the characteristic parameters of hysteresis loop change. The stress amplitude σa increases (Fig. 3a) and at the same time the plastic strain amplitude εap decreases (Fig. 3b). The changes of these loop pa- rameters prove the cyclic hardening of aluminium alloy. Hardening increases with the increase of the strain level εac. In order to evaluate the influence of fatigue damage degree on the equation (1) parameters, a new method of the results processing was applied. The essence of this method is that during approximation of hysteresis loop parameters (εap and σa) with straight lines described with equation (1) their values from various periods of relative life n/N are used. This is shown schematically in Fig. 4. In Fig. 4 there the method of tests results processing after separation of 10 periods of relative life n/N for each level of loading are presented. These periods are obtained with the use of the parallel lines L1–L10, which indicate the periods of life in which the values of the loop parameters εap and σa are determined. Coefficients n′ and exponents K′ of equation (1) obtained in various periods of life are analysed in the function of the relative life n/N. Examples of the obtained diagrams are presented in Fig. 5. The values of the mentioned parameters obtained with the use of the classical and proposed method are marked with circles. On the base of obtained diagrams it can be found that values of n′ and K′ parame- ters undergo changes and depend on the period of relative life n/N. Analysis of the re- sults elaborated with the use of the classical method demonstrates that values of n′ and K′ parameters determined in the half-life (n/N = 0.5) are not the mean values for the whole area of life. Comparative analysis of the obtained results shows the scale of sim- plification which is calculated by accepting the values of n′ and K′ parameters from one period of fatigue life n/N = 0.5 as the results of elaboration. Equation (1) parameters obtained during the tests can be presented in the form of the discrete diagram or conti- nuous function. In Fig. 5 the example of the elaborated results approximation in 10 pe- riods of life with the use of the continuous function by connecting the middles of each period of life with a fine line is shown. Fig. 4. The way of tests results elaboration: L1 = 0.1n/N; L2 = 0.2n/N; … , L10 = 1.0n/N; 1 – lgσa = lgK1 + n′1 lgεap; 2 – lgσa = lgK5 + n′5 lgεap; 3 – lgσa = lgK10 + n′10 lgεap; A – εap and σa on level εac2 in various periods of n/N. 82 Fig. 5. Results of low-cycle tests elaboration with the use of the classical and new method: a – values of K′ exponent (1 – K′ = const – classical method; 2 – K′ = f(n/N) – new method); b – values of n′ coefficient (1 – n′ = const – classical method; 2 – n′ = f(n/N) – new method). CONCLUSIONS The values of n′ and K′ parameters of AW2024 aluminium alloy obtained as a re- sult of the fatigue tests results processing with the use of the classical method (method presented in standard [4]) describe only the momentary cyclic properties. As a result of the observed alloy hardening with the increase of loading cycles number the hysteresis loop parameters change (Fig. 3). The values of n′ and K′ parameters are not constant and depend on the period of life for which they were determined. A new test method of the results elaboration allows us to determine the values of n′ and K′ parameters in va- rious periods of fatigue life. It can be important using n′ and K′ in fatigue life calcula- tions of construction elements made of cyclically unstable metals (aluminium alloys, copper, titanium etc). Material data obtained with the use of the new method of results processing enable a designer to estimate the range of possible changes of cyclic proper- ties. In the case of the crucial construction elements it allows us to carry out the veri- fying calculations for the extreme values of these parameters. The condition of obtai- ning a reliable description of changes of n′ and K′ parameters in the function of relative life n/N with the use of new method is division of the whole area of life into suitable number of partitions. When the number is high enough then it is possible to approxi- mate obtained results with a continuous function. Results obtained in that form become very handy in use and can be applied during fatigue life calculations when observed changes of cyclic properties of the material are taken into account. Such an approach to fatigue life calculations was presented among others in paper [5]. PЕЗЮМЕ. Подано новий метод аналізу результатів мaлoциклoвих випробувань ме- талів на втому, який дає змогу визначити характеристики матеріалів на різних стадіях втоми. Отримані дані можуть бути використані для розрахунків втомної довговічності елементів конструкцій. PЕЗЮМЕ. Представлен новый метод анализа результатов мaлoциклoвых испытаний металлов на усталость, который позволяет определить характеристики материалов на раз- ных стадиях усталости. Полученные данные могут быть использованы для расчета уста- лостной долговечности элементов конструкций. Aknowledgement. This paper was realized in the framework of the grant no. 1215/B/T02/2011/40 funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education in 2011-2013. 1. Fatigue Testing and Analysis (Theory and Practice) / Y.-L. Lee, J. Pan, R. B. Hathaway, M. E. Barkey. – Elsevier, 2005. – P. 103–236. 2. ASTM E 606-04 Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing. ASTM Int. 3. Morrow J. D. W. Internal Friction, Damping and Cyclic Plasticity: Cyclic Plastic Strain Energy and Fatigue of Metals, ASMT STP-378. – Philadelphia, 1965. – P. 45–84. 4. Kocańda S. and Kocańda A. Low-cycle fatigue strength of metals. – Warszawa: PWN, 1989. – 439 p. (in Polish). 5. Mroziński S. Stabilization of cyclic properties in metals and its influence on fatigue life // Dissertations № 128. – Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwо UTP, 2008. – P. 1–148. (in Polish) Received 05.04.2011 Примечание [A1]: Corrected units on the axis Примечание [A2]: Sorter name of the publisher