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Engineering Failure Analysis 12 (2005) 616–622 /locate/engfailanal Evaluation of fatigue damage at welded tube joint under cyclic pressure using surface hardness measurement Xu Chen *, Shuang-Mei Zhao Department of Process Equipment and Machinery, School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China Received 9 August 2004; accepted 27 August 2004 Available online 11 November 2004 Abstract In this paper, fatigue tests were conducted on 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel and its welded joints were subjected to cyclic inner pressure. During the fatigue tests, the HL hardness of base metal (BM), weld metal (WM) and heat affected zone (HAZ) were measured. The results showed that 1Cr18Ni9Ti was a cyclic hardening material and the WM was a cyclic softening material. Moreover, the fatigue damage evolution of BM was a power relationship and the fatigue damage evolution of WM and HAZ were a linear relationship. Applying Chaboches nonlinear continuum fatigue damage model and studying on evolution of HL hardness, a damage parameter based on HL hardness and a fatigue damage accumulation model was proposed. 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Welded joints; Fatigue life; Hardness; Fatigue damage 1. Introduction Welding has been widely employed in industry as one of the most used methods for connecting compo- nents. But due to the heterogeneity induced from welding, base metal (BM),weld metal (WM) and heat af- fected zone (HAZ) have different mechanical behaviors, which makes welded joints complicated under local stress–strain conditions [1,2]. Welded joints are subjected to various forms of cyclic loading in practical applications and fatigue fa