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Importance of Fatigue Bottom line: Fluctuating loads are more detriment than

monotonic loading

Fatigue Crack Growth


Ashraf -F. Bastawros
Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics
Iowa State University bastaw@iastate.edu, X4-3039 Howe Hall Rm. 2347
Spring 2006
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Example: Comet Airliner First jet propelled aircraft.


- Actual cabin differential pressure during flight 8.5psi (57kPa) -The design pressure was 20psi (138kPa), [FOS >2]. - Pressurized once to double its working pressure of 114kPa
Thought would not fail under the action of fatigue {WRONGE}

Crack growth due to cyclic loading caused catastrophic failure of the aircraft
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Fatigue Failure

Types of Fatigue Loading


Mechanical Fatigue: pure fluctuation in applied load Fretting Fatigue: cyclic stress with oscillatory relative motion and frictional sliding. Contact Fatigue: rolling and sliding contact Corrosion Fatigue: chemical aggressive or embitterment. Creep Fatigue: cyclic loading at constant elevated temperature

Aloha Airlines, 4/28/1988. The aircraft lost 1/3 of its roof due to a stress fracture while cruising at 24,000 feet.

Thermal Fatigue: cyclic temperature at constant or zero load Thermo-mechanical Fatigue: combined cyclic variation of both loading and temperature
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From: http://www.airdisaster.com/
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Cyclic Loading definitions

Cyclic Loading Definitions


Parameters defining a cyclic loading history - Stress Range: - K-Range: - Stress amplitude: - Mean Stress: - Loading ratio:

= max min K = Kmax Kmin

a = 1 2 (max min ) m = 1 2 (max + min )


R=

Typical stress history during cyclic loading


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- Nf : No. of cycle to failure


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min Kmin = max Kmax


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Cyclic Loading Definitions


Frequency: f (Hz or cycle/s). Rotating machinery at 3000rpm,
f = 50Hz. The running frequency generally influences fatigue crack growth if there are environmental effects present, such as humidity or elevated temperature. The frequency of the on/off cycle could be more detriment in limiting the life.

Cyclic vs. Static Loading


Key difference between static and cyclic loading Static: until applied K reaches K c ( 30MPa m for example )
the crack will not grow

Cyclic: K applied can be few percent of K c ( 3MPa m


Over time, the crack grows.
for example )

Waveform: is the profile of the stress history; sine wave,


square wave or any other regular or random profile. It would influence the fatigue crack growth if there are environmental effects.
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The design could be safe under static loading, but any cyclic loading must be considered.
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Fatigue Crack Growth

Fatigue Crack Growth


2 > 1
a1 , 2

Crack length, a

FG da IJ H dN K

FG da IJ H dN K

a1 , 1

da = f (loading) dN

Cycle N Paris, Gomez and Anderson (A rational analytical theory of fatigue, the Trend in
Engineering, Vol 13, 9-14, 1961)

postulated that the rate of crack growth


a da m = C ( K ) dN N
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depends on K in the following way:


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da m = C ( K ) ; K = Y a dN Y is a geometric constant depends on the specimen type


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Fracture Mechanics, Spring 2006

Fatigue Crack Growth

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Fracture Mechanics, Spring 2006

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