Fatigue life assessment regarding different influences on the HCF/VHCF behavior of a martensitic steel

• Published in: MATEC Web of Conferences Vol. 165; p. 20004
• Main Authors: Milošević, Igor, Seisenbacher, Benjamin, Winter, Gerhard, Grün, Florian, Kober, Martin
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Les Ulis EDP Sciences 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Crack initiation; Crack propagation; Fatigue failure; Fatigue life assessment; Fatigue limit; Fracture mechanics; High cycle fatigue; Life assessment; Martensitic stainless steels; Mathematical analysis; Parameter modification; Software development tools
• ISSN: 2261-236X; 2274-7214; 2261-236X
• DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/2018165020004

Modern applications require a special treatment when the conventional specimen size is much larger than the component size. Additional to that, high sophisticated materials are used for highly loaded components. Often the conventional fatigue limit is exceeded and loads are applied in the VHCF regime. Focus was put on the lifetime calculation and the implementation of investigated fatigue data of a X5CrNiCuNb-16-4 type steel. Two specimen geometries with diameters D 7.5 =7.5 mm and D 2.5 =2.5 mm were tested at R=-1, at room temperature and up to 10 9 cycles to failure. The application of different software tools (FEMFAT, fe-safe) showed several issues based on the current results. Results showed a change of crack initiation mechanism to subsurface crack initiation at approx. 2x10 6 cycles to failure. The gradient based correction of the reference fatigue data showed a good applicability up to 2x10 6 cylces. The application of fe-safe allows the flexible modification of S/N parameters over the whole cycle range. The usage of the actual material configuration introduced several important questions regarding the fatigue data and the implementation into lifetime calculation tools.