Bruce Boardman, Deere and Company, Technical （布鲁斯·Boardman迪尔公司,技术）.pdfVIP

Copyright © 1990 ASM International® ASM Handbook, Volume 1: Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels, and High-Performance Alloys All rights reserved. ASM Handbook Committee, p 673-688 Fatigue Resistance of Steels Bruce Boardman, Deere and Company, Technical Center FATIGUE is the progressive, localized, generalization is not true, however, for high was commonly assumed that total fatigue and permanent structural change that oc- tensile strength values where toughness and life consisted mainly of crack initiation curs in a material subjected to repeated or critical flaw size may govern ultimate load (stage I of fatigue crack development) and fluctuating strains at nominal stresses that carrying ability. Processing, fabrication, that the time required for a minute fatigue have maximum values less than (and often heat treatment, surface treatments, finish- crack to grow and produce failure was a much less than) the tensile strength of the ing, and service environments significantly minor portion of the total life. However, as material. Fatigue may culminate into cracks influence the ultimate behavior of a metal better methods of crack detection became and cause fracture after a sufficient number subjected to cyclic stressing. available, it was discovered that cracks of fluctuations. The process of fatigue con- Predicting the fatigue life of a metal part often develop early in the fatigue