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- Title
Analysis of Strain Energy Behavior Throughout a Fatigue Process.
- Authors
Scott-Emuakpor, O.; George, T.; Cross, C.; Shen, M.-H.
- Abstract
The dissipation of strain energy density per cycle was analyzed to understand its trend through a fatigue process. The motivation behind this analysis is to improve a fatigue life prediction method, which is based on a strain energy and failure correlation. The correlation states that the same amount of strain energy is dissipated during both monotonic fracture and cyclic fatigue. This means the summation of strain energy density per cycle is equal to the total strain energy density dissipated monotonically. In order to validate this understanding, the strain energy density per cycle was analyzed at several alternating stress levels for fatigue life of Aluminum 6061-T6 (Al 6061-T6) between 10 and 10 cycles. The analysis includes the following: Alternating between high and low operating frequencies (50x magnitude difference), interruption of cyclic load during testing, and idle/zero-loading intervals of 20-40 minutes in-between cyclic loading sequences. All experimental results show a consistent trend of cyclic softening as the loading cycles approach failure; however, due to an inefficient curve fit procedure of the stress-dependent strain equation at low alternating stresses onto the experimental stress-strain data, a new approach for calculating the strain energy density per cycle is explored and shows promising results.
- Subjects
MATERIAL fatigue; ENERGY dissipation; MONOTONIC functions; CYCLIC loads; STRESS-strain curves
- Publication
Experimental Mechanics, 2011, Vol 51, Issue 8, p1317
- ISSN
0014-4851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11340-010-9457-9