Issue 48

O. Plekhov et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 48 (2019) 451-458; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.43 454 R ESULTS OF FATIGUE EXPERIMENTS he results of the uniaxial fatigue test are presented in Fig. 2. The test includes part with a constant stress amplitude up to the 2200-th second. We can observe a stable accelerated crack in the 500-th to 2200-th second interval accompanied by energy dissipation increase. From the 2200-th second, the stress intensity factor was kept constant. It leads to the decrease of the stress amplitude (fig.2a) and energy dissipation and results in nearly uniform crack propagation (fig.2b). The results of the biaxial fatigue tests are presented in Fig. 3. Fig. 3a shows a plot of crack length versus time. Fig. 3b presents evidence that the fatigue crack propagates in the Paris regime. a) b) Figure 3: Crack length versus time under biaxial loading conditions (different lines indicate different values of biaxial coefficients) (a), Paris curve (b) for biaxial test. T HEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT DISSIPATION ollowing the idea proposed in [10], we can start from a relationship between elastic and real deformation at the crack tip: 1 2 ij , ef el ij s G G          (1) where G – the shear modulus, G S – secant shear modulus. Eqn. (1) was originally proposed in [12] as a result of photo elastic experiment data treatment. Using the Ramberg- Osgood relationship as the first approximation of mechanical behaviour of material under consideration 0 , n A G             we can write the following estimation for octahedral stress and link it with an elastic solution 1 2 1 1 2(1 ) 1 3 , 1 n el oct oct n B B                 (2) 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 Time, s 10 4 0 10 20 30 40 50 Crack length, mm n=1; R=0.1 ;F=7kN n=1; R=0.1 ;F=12kN n=0.5; R=0.1 ;F=10kN n=0; R=0.1 ;F=10kN n=1; R=0.5 ;F=12kN n=1; R=0.5 ;F=10kN 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Sterss intensity factor, MPa 10 -6 10 -5 10 -4 Crack rate, m/cycle n=1; R=0.1 ;F=7kN n=1; R=0.1 ;F=12kN n=0.5; R=0.1 ;F=10kN n=0; R=0.1 ;F=10kN n=1; R=0.5 ;F=12kN n=1; R=0.5 ;F=10kN Approximation T F