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Two of the most important types of long-term material behavior are more specifically creep and fatigue. Whereas S-S behavior usually occurs in less than one or two hours, creep and stress relaxation may continue over the entire life of the structure such as 100,000 hours or more (per ASTM procedures). 

In many applications, intermittent or dynamic loads arise over much shorter time scales. Examples of such products include chair seats, panels that vibrate and transmit noise, engine mounts and other anti- 

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ISOMETRIC STRESS ISOCHRONOUS STRESS VS LOG TIME VS STRAIN 

Data Creep data can be very useful to the designer. In the interest of sound design-procedure, the necessary long-term creep information should be obtained on the perspective specific RP, under the conditions of product usage. In addition to the creep data, a stress-strain diagram under similar conditions should be obtained. The combined information will provide the basis for calculating the predictability of the plastic performance. 

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Fatigue tests were performed under load control mode on a Schenck horizontal fatigue testing machine with hydraulic grips and a maximum load capacity of 25 kN. Tension-tension constant amplitude fatigue tests were carried out at three stress levels 60% a , 70% Cu and 80% a at two different stress ratios R = 0.1 and R = 0.5. The test frequency was kept constant (f = 3 Hz) for all the tests. 

Figures Optical micrograph for a fatigue test at a ax = 60% and R = 0.1, after 240000 cycles...

Figure 7 Cumulative AE counts versus cycles plots for fatigue tests at different loading conditions...

The contact fatigue creates independent part of the fatigue tests. As consequence of triaxial state of stress and flexible plastic state in contact area occurrence comes to very considerable scattering of experimental data. From this reason it is necessary to test statistic meaningful number of samples. 

At contact fatigue tests of different steel and cast iron types was used the acoustic emission technique. Processed records from the AE analyser show importance of acoustic response of tested surface continuous sensing. In graphs are obvious characteristic types of summation curves, or may be from significant changes of AE signal course identified even phases of the wear process. 

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The life of a component, as measured in a fatigue test, is the number of cycles needed to initiate a crack and cause it to propagate across the wall until it intersects the outside surface or until fast fracture intervenes. 

When constant stress (5) amplitudes are encountered, the process is known as high cycle fatigue, because failure generally occurs only when N exceeds 10 cycles. Data from high cycle fatigue tests are reported in the form of an 5 vs Ai curve, as shown in Figure 4b (7). 

Mech nic lF tig ue. Some mechanical fatigue tests have been conducted on explosion-clad composites where the plane of maximum tensile stress is placed near the bond 2one (30). 

Machine components ate commonly subjected to loads, and hence stresses, which vary over time. The response of materials to such loading is usually examined by a fatigue test. The cylinder, loaded elastically to a level below that for plastic deformation, is rotated. Thus the axial stress at all locations on the surface alternates between a maximum tensile value and a maximum compressive value. The cylinder is rotated until fracture occurs, or until a large number of cycles is attained, eg, lO. The test is then repeated at a different maximum stress level. The results ate presented as a plot of maximum stress, C, versus number of cycles to fracture. For many steels, there is a maximum stress level below which fracture does not occur called the... 

Data for thermal movement of various bitumens and felts and for composite membranes have been given (1). These describe the development of a thermal shock factor based on strength factors and the linear thermal expansion coefficient. Tensile and flexural fatigue tests on roofing membranes were taken at 21 and 18°C, and performance criteria were recommended. A study of four types of fluid-appHed roofing membranes under cycHc conditions showed that they could not withstand movements of <1.0 mm over joiats. The limitations of present test methods for new roofing materials, such as prefabricated polymeric and elastomeric sheets and Hquid-appHed membranes, have also been described (1). For evaluation, both laboratory and field work are needed. 

Rotating Beam Fatigue Test for Steel Cords. The purpose of this test method is to evaluate steel cord for pure bending fatigue (121). The test sample consists of a 3-mm diameter mbber embedded with steel cord. Different bending stress levels are appHed and the time to failure is recorded. The test stops at 1.44 million cycles. The fatigue limit is calculated from S—N (stress—number of cycles) curve. 

In the case of a pressure vessel subjected to cyclic loading (as here) cracks can grow by fatigue and a vessel initially passed as safe may subsequently become unsafe due to this crack growth. The probable extent of crack growth can be determined by making fatigue tests on pre-cracked pieces of steel of the same type as that used in the pressure vessel, and the safe vessel lifetime can be estimated by the method illustrated in Case Studv 3. 

Sorenson, A., Sonic fatigue testing and development of aircraft panels. Symposium on Structural Adhesives and Sandwich Construction. Wright Air Development Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1957. 

A series of utuaxial fatigue tests on unnotched plastic sheets show that the fatigue limit for the material is 10 MN/m. If a pressure vessel with a diameter of 120 mm and a wall thickness of 4 mm is to be made from this material, estimate the maximum value of fluctuating internal pressure which would be recommended. The stress intensity factor for the pressure vessel is given by K = 2hoop stress and a is the half length of an internal defect. 

Figure 4-445. Chloride fatigue test—dispersed lignosulfonate mud, 9.5 pH. (From Ref. [194].)...

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