EFFECTIVNESS OF THE FATIGUE CRITERIA FOR COMBINED BENDING – TORSION LOADING.docVIP

1 Materials Engineering, Vol. 17, 2010, No. 4 EFFECTIVNESS OF THE FATIGUE CRITERIA FOR COMBINED BENDING – TORSION LOADING ?těpán Major 1,2 Received 9 December 2010; accepted in revised form 16 December 2010 th th Abstract Most of mechanical components in the engineering are frequently subjected to combined loading, which can lead to sudden fatigue failure. In present work the fatigue life of plasma-nitrided and virgin specimens is studied. Specimens made of low-alloy high-strength steel. Specimens were subjected to an in-phase combined bending-torsion loading. The plasma-nitrided specimens have significantly improved fatigue resistance. The most relevant goal of this paper is to verify the efficiency of classical and advanced stress based multiaxial criteria. The criterion proposed by McDiarmid was found to be the most precise in the fatigue life prediction for virgin specimens. On the other hand, the Matake criterion was the most successful for nitrided specimens. Keywords: Fatigue life, fatigue criteria, bending-torsion, nitrided layer, high strength steel. 1. Introduction A major part of mechanical components in The motivation of this work is: (a) to verify the efficiency of classical and advanced stress based multiaxial criteria on using virgins specimens made of low-alloy high strength steels, (b) to apply those criteria to specimens with the surface layers, (c) to compare the results obtained using virgin and nitride specimens. The emphasis is put mainly on criteria intended for the use in the high cycle region. the engineering (such as railroad wheels, crankshafts, axles, and turbine blades, etc.) is subjected to bi-axial or three-axial loading, which can lead to suden fatigue failure. The estimation of fatigue life of a component under multiaxial loading is fu