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FOREWORD
This investigation was conducted in the H. F. Moore
Fracture Research Laboratories of the Department of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois,
in cooperation with the Aeronautical Structures Laboratory
of the NavE 1 Air Engineering Center.
This report covers work performed during the period
1 February 1966 through 30 April 1967, and together with
report No. NAEC-ASL-1115 constitutes the final report on
Item 2 of Contract N156-46083.
Messrs. M. S. Rosenfeld
and R. E. Vining acted as technical liaison for the Navy
and Professor T. J. Dolan, Head of Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, furnished administrative and technical guidance.
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SUMMAR Y
A method is presented for predicting the fatigue life of
notched members from smooth specimen fatigue data. Inelastic
behavior of the material at the notch root is treated using Neuber's
rule which states that the theoretical stress concentration factor
is equal to the geometric mean of the actual stress and strain concentration factors.
This provides indices of equal fatigue damage
for notched and unnotched members.
Experimental results for notched aluminum alloy plates
subjected to one or two levels of completely reversed loading
are compared with predictions based on these indices, Measured
notched fatigue lives and lives predicted 'rom smooth specimens
agree within a factor of two.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
I.
II.
INTRODUCTION
ANALYSIS
1
1
III.
DISCUSSION
IV.
V.
CONCLUSIONS
VI.
REFERENCES
Tables
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Figures
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12
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LIST OF SYMBOLS
E
Modulus of elasticity
Ka
KE
Kf
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I.
INTRODUCTION
Stowel- (1) and Neuber (2) have developed analyses which help describe
the nonlinear stress-strain behavior of notches.
Their work has recently
been applied to the notci fatigue problem by a number of authors (3 -6).
These authors relate th cyclic load range on a notched member to the actual
stress or strain range ai the notch root and then estimate the life of the notched
member from stress vs Iife or strain vs life plots obtained from smooth
specimens.
An alternate approach is presented here which makes it unnecessary
to solve for the actual stress or strain at the notch root. Instead, Neuber's
rule is used to convert the smooth specimen data for a given metal into a
master life pl3t which can , used to estimate the fatigue life of any notched
member made of that particular metal.
U.
ANALYSIS
The theort- cal stress, concentration factor, K. only applies when the
Neuber' (2) has proposed a rule
material at the not ': root remains elastic.
which may be applie, .wn when the material at the notch root is strained into
the inelastic region. He state! that the theoretical stress concentration factor
is equal to the geometric mean of the actual stress and strain concentration
factors.
S t = (KaK )/2--------------------------
Neuber's Rule
~K
- ,
Kf =
-1i
a --------------------------
(1)
r
where r is the root radius and "a" is a material constant determined from
long life fatigue data for sharply notched specimens.
For notches with large
For sharp notches, however, K is
radii K is nearly equal toK.
unnecestarily conservative and Kf should be used in preference to K .
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To apply Neuber's rule to the notch fatigue problem, Kf will be used
in place of Kt and KC and K are written in terms of ranges of stress and
strain.
= (A
AE E) 1 /
...................
(2)
where 6S and Ae are the nomiiial stress and strain ranges applied to a
notched member, L'a and A are the local stress and strain ranges at the
notch root, and E is the elastic modulus.
Note that Eq. (2) reduces to the following simple form if the nominal
stress and strain are limited to the elastic region.
1/2 -------------------------
Kf AS = (A7AE E)--
(2a)
-------------------------------
(2b)
This is the equation Ahich is frequently misused at shorter lives when the
material near the notch behaves inelastically.
III.
DISCUSSION
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Figure la is an example of such a master plot of the quantity
(Aa Ac E)1/ 2 vs life for two aluminum alloys using data reported by Endo and
Morrow (8).
value of (6Af
ranges.
our laboratory (11) using the same metals shown in Fig. la, indicate that
rapid stabilization of the hysteresis ioup occurs following a step change in
strain amplitude.
The life of a notched member can be predicted by entering the value
of Kf(ZAS e E)1/ 2 on the ordinate of smooth specimen curves of the type
lives there is no need for the cyclic stress -strain curve since the nomin~l,
strains are essentially elastic.
reduces to KfAS,
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cycles while large compressive loads induce tensile mean stresses.
The
ensuing fatigue life may be greatly altered.
The problem is further
complicated by the fact that mean stresses at the notch root will tend to relax
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Specimens are similar to those used by Blatherwick and Olson (10).
The radii of the notches are 0. 25 in. or greater-, so that there is no significant
difference in K t and Kf
Although only two amplitudes of loading were used in each test, the
amplitude was frequently changed from one level to the other. Tests were
planned so that nearly equal damage was done at each level. About 20
changes in level were made in each test. Visible cracks were never
observed until the last 20o of life and usually not until the last 107. The
total damage summations in Table 1 are remarkably close to 1. 0.
Even though the loading was completely reversed, there is a possibility of a mean stress effect depending upon how the amplitude is changed
from the large to the small level.
If the last peak reached at the higher
amplitude is tensile. a beneficial compressive mean stress may be present
for subsequent cycles at the lower amplitude.
The effect may be detri mental if the last peaks at the higher level are compressive.
Only two
specimens were tested in a manner which could create compressive mean
stresses and the results are inconclusive.
However, for more severely
notched specimens subjected to a few large load cycles followed by many
smaller ones tius mean stress effect can be significant.
IV.
CONCLUSION
The equation
Kf(nS Ae E)1/2
1/2
(An Ao E)
E)1/
1/2
relates the behavior of notched spec,:,aens to readily available smooth specimen data.
Master plots of (Aa Ac E) 1 / 2 vs life based on smooth specimen
fatigue results may be used to accurately predict fatigue of notcied aluminum
alloy plates subjected to completely reversed loading.
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VI.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
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8.
T. Endo and JoDean Morrow, "Cyclic Stress -Strain and Fatigue Behavior of Representative Aircraft Metals, " paper to be presented at
the ASTM Summer Meeting, Boston, June 1967, see also Report No.
NAEC-ASL-1105, U. S. Naval Air Engineering Center, Philadelphia,
Pa., June 1966.
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13 ABSTRACT
A method is presented for predicting the fatigue life of notched members from
smooth specimen fatigue data. Inelastic behavior of the material at the notch
root is treated using Neuber's rule which states that the theoretical stress
concentratiln factor is equal to the geometric mean of the actual stress and strair
concentration factors. This provides indices of equal fatigue damage for notched
and unnotched members.
Experimental results for notched aluminum alloy plates subjected to one or
two levels of completely reversed loading are compared with predictions based on
these indices. Measured notched fatigue lives and lives predicted from smooth
specimens agree within a factor of two.
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