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Non-Propagating Cracks in Vee- Notched Specimens Subject to Fatigue Loading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

N. E. Frost
N. E. Frost*
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Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, East Kilbride, Glasgow
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Summary

Reversed direct stress and rotating bending fatigue tests have been carried out on Vee-notched specimens of aluminium alloy, nickel chromium steel and mild steel.

Diagrams are presented showing the relationship between the geometric stress concentration factor K t and the strength reduction factor K t. It was found that non-propagating cracks formed in the roots of the sharper notches. These cracks formed at or above some critical value of K t, the value depending on the specimen material. Below the critical value of K t, cracks did not form unless the applied nominal stress exceeded that at the fatigue limit, and a crack, once formed, continued to propagate until the specimen failed. Above the critical value of K t, non-propagating cracks formed at nominal stresses less than the fatigue limit, the stress having to be increased to the latter value in order to propagate the crack. This critical value of K t coincided with the maximum Kf value realised. It would appear that K f equals K t up to a certain value of K t; there is then a transition where K t reaches a maximum at the critical value of K t. Increasing the value of K t above the critical value causes no further increase and may tend to decrease the value of K t.

The conclusions drawn apply only when the fatigue stresses are completely reversed, i.e. the mean load is zero.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1957

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