Fatigue Limit
Fatigue Limit
Fatigue Limit
Abstract
Endurance limit that can be predicted from the S-N curve has become an interesting issue for reliability and quality
assessment of stainless steel especially in corrosion environment. However, the study of corrosion mechanism
related to S-N curve is not well established. This paper discusses application of finite element method for S-N curve
estimation of AISI 304 in air and corrosive environment. Finite element simulation was carried out using ANSYS
Release 13. An experimental set up using fatigue rotary bending machine based on ASTM E466 standard is used to
validate the simulation result. In the air environment, endurance limit obtained from finite element analysis is similar
to references. In the corrosive environment, even though the endurance limit obtained by finite element analysis is
lower than that obtained by experimental set up, the trend line of S-N curves for both works and analyses are the
same. Therefore, finite element simulation result can be used to estimate S-N curve as good as the experimental set
up.
Keywords: finite element method, fatigue life, AISI 304, and corrosive environment.
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Where:
Experimental Methods Δε = Total Strain Amplitude
Δσ = Stress Amplitude
E = Modulus of Elasticity
Fatigue tests were performed using four points rotary Nf = Number of Cycles to Failure
bending fatigue test machines operating at frequency
of 50Hz shown in Figure 2. Fatigue tests were The two cyclic stress-strain parameters are part of the
performed with five different loading conditions;12 kg, equation shown as:
10 Kg, 8 Kg, 7 Kg, and 6 Kg. The corrosive 1⁄
∆𝜎 ∆𝜎 𝑛
environment is simulated using 3.5% NaCl solution. ∆𝜀 = 𝐸
+ 2(𝐾 ) ………………………….… (2)
Where:
Δε = Strain Amplitude
Δσ = 2 x the Stress Amplitude
E = Modulus of Elasticity
K = Cyclic Strength Coefficient
n = Cyclic Strain Hardening Exponent
Solid Modeling
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For corrosive environment, boundary condition is Figure 4. The fatigue life of AISI 304 in cycles for
approach by using analytic formula to get the stress life 12Kg load.
parameter that used for engineering data in ANSYS.
The result shown in Table 3. The S-N curve from fatigue analysis in air condition
for AISI 304 is shown in Figure 5. It can be seen from
log 𝑁 = log 𝑎̅ − 𝑚 log ∆𝜎……………. (3) the curve that the fatigue limit for AISI 304 was at
323.34 MPa. This result is close to result from INCO
N = predicted number of cycles to failure for data published by NiDI (Keytometal). This data shows
stress range ∆𝜎 endurance limits from reverse bending fatigue tests as
log 𝑎̅ = intercept of log N-axis by S-N curve can be seen in Table 4.
M = negative inverse slope of S-N curve S-N curve in Figs. 6 shows comparison of results
∆𝜎 = Stress Range obtained from simulation and experiment in corrosive
environment. Even though the curve obtained by finite
element analysis is lower than that obtained by
experimental set up, the trend line of S-N curves for
both experiment and finite element analysis are similar.
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Conclusion
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