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Effects of intermittent loading on fatigue life of a high strength steel in very high cycle fatigue regime

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 9-12

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2018.07.033

Keywords

Very high cycle fatigue; High strength steels; Intermittent loading; Ultrasonic fatigue technique

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11572325, 11425211]
  2. Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB22040503, XDB22020201, XDB22020200]

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An intermittent loading path (i.e. a pause duration follows after a loading pulse) is broadly employed in a ultrasonic fatigue test to minimize the effect of self-heating in specimens. The exact influence of such intermittent loading strategy remains elusive. We report here a significant fatigue life improvement of a high strength steel in very high cycle fatigue regime subjected to intermittent loading, in contrast to that without the pause duration although the crack initiation mechanism remains the same. This phenomenon is attributed to the strain aging by the numerous low stress amplitude cycles under intermittent loading, which strengthens the local region ahead of the initiated crack tip by the former high stress amplitude cycles and improves the fatigue life.

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