Issue 37

V. Anes et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 37 (2016) 124-130; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.37.17 128 max _ t f block N N vcc  (5) Thus, it is expected that the fatigue failure will occur at _ f block N block repetitions. Fig. 2 b) shows the SSF equivalent loading block (equivalent to the FRI loading block) with a constant amplitude loading equal to 638 MPa, the SSF equivalent loading block has 300 loading cycles instead of the 360 cycles found in the FRI loading block. Figure 2: a) SSF equivalent stress time evolution for the FRI loading path (360 fully reversals), b) Constant amplitude SSF loading block (300 fully reversals). Loading block results Tabs. 3 and 4 show the results for the SSF fatigue life estimates, cycle counting, and number of block repetitions before failure. The experimental block results shown in the fourth column were obtained by dividing the number of experimental reversals at failure by 360 (360 proportional loadings found within the FRI loading block), this result shows the number of block repetitions during experiments at each stress level. The 5 th column shows the SSF fatigue life estimates in number of reversal at failure time, these results were obtained using the material uniaxial shear SN curve. The 6 th column shows the number of virtual loading cycles obtained with Eq. (4) for the FRI loading block. The virtual cycle counting results in both materials were equal to 300 virtual loading cycles. Thus the fatigue damage of the 360 proportional loading cycles found in the FRI loading block is estimated by 300 virtual loading cycles with constant amplitude. This amplitude is given by the maximum SSF equivalent shear stress found within the loading block. Thus, the number of SSF loading blocks loaded before failure, shown in column 7, are obtained by dividing the number of loading cycles estimated by the SSF equivalent stress (shown in column 5 of Tabs. 3 and 4) and the number of virtual loading cycles computed for the FRI loading block. Sigma max [MPa] Tau max [MPa] 2Nf [11] Exp blocks SSF 2Nf vcc SSF blocks 724 413 3240 4,5 4617 300 8 751 432 4536 6,3 3070 300 5 632 374 29520 41 38718 300 65 620 364 64800 90 54587 300 91 Table 3: 1050QT loading block results. Sigma max [MPa] Tau max [MPa] 2Nf [11] Exp blocks ssf 2Nf vcc Ssf blocks 459 271 3960 5,5 2926 300 5 461 262 4176 5,8 3419 300 6 391 224 20160 28 7927 300 13 362 210 38160 53 11291 300 19 Table 4: 304L loading block results.