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MECHANICS OF SOLIDS FATIGUE You should judge your progress by completing the self-assessment exercises. On completion of this tutorial you should be able to do the following.  Explain fatigue.  Explain the way fatigue affects different materials.  Explain an S –N graph.  Define fatigue strength.  Define endurance limit.  Explain the various factors that affect the fatigue life of a component.  Predict the fatigue life of components.  Predict the safety fatigue factor. You should be familiar with basic stress and strain theory.  D.J.Dunn 1 INTRODUCTION Fatigue is a phenomenon that occurs in a material that is subject to a cyclic stress. Although the peak stress in each cycle is less than that needed to make the material fail in a tensile test, the material fails suddenly and catastrophically after a certain number of cycles. Here are some examples of things that are subject to cyclic stress.  Railway lines that bend every time a wheel passes over it.  Gear Teeth.  Springs.  The suspension cable on a suspension bridge every time a vehicle passes over it.  The skin and structural members of an aeroplane every time it flies.  A shaft with a pulley belt drive.  The connecting rod in a reciprocating engine.  The stub axle on a vehicle wheel. STRESS FLUCTUATION Consider the case of an electric motor with a pulley drive on its shaft. Figure 1 The shaft bends as shown producing tension on one side and compression on the other. As the shaft rotates, any given point on the surface experiences a direct stress that changes