FEA5-PostProcessing.pptVIP

* Just to be sure everything is well defined. The stress is assumed to be uniaxial and oscillating with a constant frequency and constant amplitude. The peaks are the relative maximum and minimum stress over one cycle which are illustrated in the figure. Then the steady stress component is given by the half the sum of the maximum and maximum stresses. The peak-to-peak stress is the difference between the maximum and the minimum stress, and the half-amplitude stress is just half of the peak-to-peak stress. Throughout the rest of this discussion we will use the steady stress and the half-amplitude stress. Of course, for a fully probabilistic formulation statistical distributions will be required for these load inputs. This discussion will assume throughout that steady and vibratory stress are not random variables. * Generally a stress ratio equal to –1 is used to fit the number of cycles to failure, Nf, to the half amplitude strength. An expression like the one above is sometimes used to fit the data. If we now pick the number of cycles then we can find the corresponding vibratory stress amplitude. * We are now prepared to use the material data to generate a Goodman diagram. First pick the number of cycles the component must survive under the oscillatory loads. Then use the curve fit to find the corresponding half amplitude cyclic stress limit. On the vertical axis (which represents the applied alternating stress) place the half amplitude cyclic stress limit, and the yield stress. On the horizontal axis (which represents the mean or steady stress) place the yield and the ultimate stress. The limiting steady and half amplitude stress cannot exceed some curve between pairs of points placed on the axes. For example, with no consideration for fatigue we would not want the steady or alternating stress to exceed the yield stress on either axis. The dashed line represents this limit. Of course there are infinitely many other choices, two of which are the S