Fatigue Definition and 85 Threads

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to do a "Random Vibration Fatigue Analysis" on a bracket assembly that is mounted on the headboard of a pickup truck. BACKGROUND: The bracket assembly is mounted on the headboard of the truck using 2xbolts (1 per each mount). The truck regularly travels on a rough...

Some basic background before i ask the question. I have been using openFAST, am opensource software to simulate a 5MW wind turbine. I then use the data from openFAST, and run it through its counter partner Mlife, to calculate fatigue and time to failure. Below is the data that Mlife dumped to...

Hello, assuming to keep an aluminum alloy motorcycle frame not in use, still, will the daily temperature variations cause thermal fatigue due to the continuous expansions and retractions or is the force developed by a few degrees of variations not sufficient to create microstructural dislocations?

"The stresses acting on a structural element subjected to axial, shear or torsional loads are constant and do not change sign throughout the loading cycle. Therefore, alternating stresses, which cause fatigue, do not occur in these cases. On the other hand, in a beam subjected to bending load...

So for this question, I understand the math but just wanted to be clear on a few things. So I had this question on my midterm but instead of tensile and compressive stresses, it was tensile and tensile stress. I initially thought that the delta sigma in the integral was the maximum stress so in...

Hello Everybody, Im doing my lab report on Fatigue testing for a Single Edge Notched Tension (SENT) sample and need to plot ΔK vs da/dN for a series of a vs N readings at different R and maximum stress values (attached in the picture). I've just been given one equation for Ki and told that I...

forget about chronic fatigue, I remembered it has been tracked to gut bacteria! Epstein-Barr virus seems to be associated with many conditions. "Associated" is the operative there because almost everyone is a host for Epstein-Barr. Science News has a somewhat long but quite readable article...

What is the mechanism of Fatigue what events initiate it and how? The trigger of a fever, called a pyrogen, results in the release of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) Generally just as a pyrogen such as PGE2 (or LPS) sets thermogenesis in motion, leading to a fever, what kind of events are triggered in...

What are some creative ways to display fatigue failure of material due to axial, bending, torsional loading using common household items? This is an experiment I have to do at home, I need help with some ideas

Hi, some time ago I wondered if it's possible to calculate fatigue life (number of cycles to failure) for complex models analytically, based on static FEA results: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/fatigue-life-hand-calculations-based-on-static-fea-results.994264/ Unfortunately, it seems...

Hi, advanced FEA programs allow their users to perform fatigue analyses. However, there are still many programs where such simulations can't be performed. I've heard that in such case one can use results obtained from regular linear static FEA to calculate fatigue life manually. Theoretically...

My question here is regarding fracture of materials. I have problems in understanding some concepts. Now, for static loading, there is a property called KIC (fracture toughness). By equating our stress from the static load to this KIC, we get the maximum length of the crack which does not...

Hi, I had been reading about the fatigue stress concentration factor (Kf) which is reduced compared to the geometric stress concentration factor (Kt). The reduction in turn dpends upon the material's sensitivity to notches...

Hello All, I had been reading a book on Machine Design. I understand that at high temperatures, yield strength of the material drops. The behaviour of the fatigue strength i.e. the drop in fatigue strength may at times be taken to be of same proportion as that of yield strength. It is also...

I am working on finding a solution for a gear box field failure. Failure description: In the deep groove ball bearing only one rolling element has a pre-mature fatigue failure (Image-6.jpg) and rest of the all ball is in good condition (image-05.jpg). Do anyone has seen the same kind of...

Dear guys can somebody explain, what is actually the following terms, used in fatigue analysis: 1. Mean stress correction factor 2. Plate thickness correction factor 3. Redundancy factor Thanks guys. you are the best...

When our body cells are full of ATP (fuel from our mitochrondria), they are supposed to energize our biological systems.. but why do we feel fatigue when we don't sleep when we still have sufficient or ample supplies of ATP? What really cause fatigue?

I am starting work on structural durability area for after treatment systems and deal with Random Vibration and PSD profiles quite often. However there are few fundamental questions about PSD profiles that I could not get answer to after a lot of search on internet. So finally decided to write...

@phinds noted in a recent thread that energy is not conserved on a cosmological scale, which hadn't occurred to me before, so I did some reading and happily the concepts were easy to digest and things I already understood but just hadn't connected the dots myself on regarding the implications...

Hello all, I was wondering, for modifying the sharp edges of a shaft, which one of the cases attached is better? Why? My guess would be the one with the radius since there are more materials remaining than the other but there should be a reason for the other case since that is also frequently...

I have a fast rotating rotor spinning over 2 axis (over its main axis and over an external axis - the two axis are perpendicular to each other). Easiest to imagine this is like a windturbine yawing as it follows the wind direction.Each of the two rotations obviously causes a distinct centripetal...

Assuming that a TLP platform is examined and the wave forces acting on the tendons of the mooring lines are presented in RAOs (as a function of wave frequency). Using Jonswap spectra for North sea (i.e peakness factor equal to 3.3) we can obtain Hs (significant wave height); Tp (peak period) and...

I'm testing a part for fatigue, and I got a time series of Forces and Moments on three different parts of the body (A wind turbine hub). From the static structural fatigue analysis, I noticed that you need a von mises stress input - that's not a problem. My problem is, how do I place different...

I'm doing some spring endurance test. If the spring is exceeding its cycles limit and causes fatigue failure, how normally the spring constant changes? For example, after the expected limit cycles (lets say 2million load-unload cycles), will the spring constant gradually decreases? or...

Hey everyone I'd be really grateful if anyone could help me out here, been going round in circles for two weeks now and I need to get going soon. Jumping right to the point, here's my problem: We are currently working on a student project and designing a Wind Turbine for future opensource use...

Hi I was wondering how you would account for mean stress (such as using with goodman equation) using von mises with miners rule due to variable loading Thank you

Could I use "The intensity of muscle contractions" as a factory that may affect how quickly muscles become fatigued? I'm doing an experiment, but is this a legitimate idea? Would my hypothesis be "The intensity of muscle contractions in the body affects how quickly muscles become fatigued"?

Hi, I was wondering which stress values from a finite element program to use for fatigue analysis, (von mises, principal, tresca). I was leaning towards principal stresses but then would my stress range be σ11 from load case 1 (LC1) to σ11 of LC2, or would i need to do σ11-σ33 first and then...

Dear All, I would like to calculate fatigue life for the following: A SS430F metal component is repeatedly hitting at 0.10mm SS304 sheet with 1 Kg load from 0.20 mm distance. Assume, Area of hitting: 5.5mm X 16mm = 88 Sq.mm. Hitting load = 1 Kg Tensile strength of 0.10mm SS304 sheet is 515...

I know that steel and titanium have fatigue limits. Just to clarify, metals or alloys with fatigue limits are metals that - as long as they experience pressures that lower than the limits - can last "indefinitely". Aluminum, for example, does NOT have a fatigue limit. No matter how small the...

I know that steel and titanium have fatigue limits. Just to clarify, metals or alloys with fatigue limits are metals that - as long as they experience pressures that lower than the limits - can last "indefinitely". Aluminum, for example, does NOT have a fatigue limit. No matter how small the...

I have a heat exchanger with water/air as medium and we test it in a facility where we cycle the water temperature between 25 to 95 degrees Celcius with a cycle time of 5 minutes for thermal fatigue. Our customer require the testing to be between 5 to 95 degrees instead with 3 minute long...

Hello Folks, May be I am bring up the old topic again., but I've lost enough sleep over this topic. I understand that we use Von-Mises criteria for ductile material failure by comparing to yield limit and max principal stress is used to check failure for brittle materials. My question is bit...

Hello everybody , I am student in mechanical enginnering. I have to evaluate the solution Fe-Safe. i am working on two subjects: Harmonic and PSD Vibrations. The modal analysis are done in Abaqus. I would like to understand how Fe-Safe computes Life Fatigue in case of harmonic analysis. What...

I'd like to add a temperature probe to a 4" water pipe downstream of a centrifugal fill pump, but I am afraid of the probe shearing from being subjected to a constant force from the upstream pump (which pumps at about 400 gal/min). Naturally, my thought was to use the drag force equation, but I...

Hi everyone, I need some specific mechanical properties of A516 carbon steel, but as yet I am unable to find it online. Can you help me find the fatigue limit and the relation between yield strength and temperature? Are there tabulated values for this? Thanks! Mark edit: found it! seems i...

A standard way of plotting an S-N (fatigue strength vs no of cycles) graph is to start off by taking a value of Sm (for N=1000) cycles and joining it to the point depicting Se(Endurance Limit). Now we commonly take Sm= 0.9Sut for steels. Now I was wandering, before you actually get to use the...

Homework Statement First of all, fatigue limit is defined in terms of STRESS, NOT stress amplitude, right? Calculate the fatigue limit based on the given data (see my attempt for data). Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution Here is a link to the data + my graph...

I need to add flexibility to this joint (where the arrow is pointing) and I was thinking about using a method I saw on this flexible clamp. I ripped it apart and it looks like they used copper wire as the flex material. What would be the best wire to use? I'm worried that perhaps it could...

Homework Statement Compute the crtitical surface edge crack if the fatigue life = 8000000 cycles and maximum tensile stress is 21000 psi. m=3.5 and A= 0.00000000004 in ksi and in. units. Initial crack edge is 0.120 in. Y= 1.15 Homework Equations The equation is given in the attached file...

fatigue: low frequency and structural damage Hi all, I have a measured loading history and I need to calculate the structural damage through the Miner rules. The signal is measured on a rod element of a plough. As you can see from the load PSD, the signal has a verly low frequency component...

I am looking for some information on how to calculate fatigue life for materials at temperatures elevated into the creep realm. ASME Sec 8 Div 2 describes how to do this for carbon steel below 700F and stainless below 800F, but I am interested in temperatures > 1000F. I am performing an FEA...

Hi! I'm trying to find a good way to predict fatigue caused by a random vibration (given PSD). I know at least 2 ways of doing it but I'm questioning them both. One of them is using the rain flow count algorithm at a simulated acceleration/time signal to generate a certain amount of...

Hi to all. How would I go about calculating the fatigue limit of leaf springs? Is there an equation out there in the form of N, cycles to failure= f(variables, material properties) Or will I have to use the Stress equations for leaf springs and use that stress value and then...

I'm doing a research project which aims to develop a mathematical correlation for fatigue life prediction at resonance frequency. An experimental setup is also to be created which would be used to carry out the experiment, cyclic loading cycles until failure. For this a Cussons linear vibrator...

So I've become aware that the more "good" choices we make, the easier it is to make a "bad" choice, e.g. if you're on a diet for a couple of months, its very easy to slip and have a piece of chocolate cake, that sort of thing. Here's the wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion So...

Homework Statement Hey everyone, I'm trying to do this question and have no idea where to go with it. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/630750/Screen%20Shot%202011-11-02%20at%2014.17.42.png Homework Equations See below. The Attempt at a Solution Here is my attempt/thinking so far...

Hello All, I'm hoping someone can assist me in locating a stress amplitude vs. cycles curve (S N curve) for a Duplex Stainless Steel. The particular material I'm using is SAF 2205. I have been searching far and wide, including the Atlas of Fatigue Curves, but I have not been able to find...

what are fatigue cracks? what are the major sources of fatigue withing the fuselage? how can fatigue cracks be detected during inspection? how can the risk of fatigue cracks in the fuselage be reduced? why are they dangerous? what is their origin? I've tried to find answers for these...

Hello How can I calculate the fatigue life of a variable stress between 0 and 90 MPa in cast aluminum? Do I use the mean stress and compare it with the wohler curve? what is the logic of using the mean stress? Why not the maximum stress? Do I have to use the Goodman or Gerber diagram...