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Effect of range of stress and state of stress on fatigue strength of SAE 4340 steel

Hanley, B.C.

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Title
Effect of range of stress and state of stress on fatigue strength of SAE 4340 steel
Author(s)
Hanley, B.C.
Issue Date
1951-02
Keyword(s)
  • Stress
  • Fatigue Strength
  • Steel
Abstract
A laboratory investigation was made to determine the effect of different states of stress on the fatigue strength of SAE 4340 Steel, and to study the influence of various mean stresses superimposed upon the alternating stresses. Groups of unnotched specimens were subjected to five different states of stress by means of fatigue tests involving: (a) bending, (b) torsion, and (c) three different combinations of bending and torsion. For each state of stress the mean stress was varied to include five different values ranging from zero to the maximum value that the specimen could sustain. The tests were conducted in modified “plate-bending” machines specially adapted to these experiments. An analysis of the 25 S-N curves obtained indicated that the endurance limit, as measured by the alternating stress amplitude, was practically independent of the value of the mean stress superimposed for the various combinations of bending and torsion investigated. For combinations of completely-reversed cycles of bending and torsion, the endurance limits agreed well with an empirical elliptic equation based on the observed endurance limits in bending only and torsion only.
Publisher
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
  • TAM R 22
  • 1967-0320
ISSN
0073-5264
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/111918
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Office of Naval Research, U. S. Navy, Contract N6-ori-71, Task Order IV; Project NR-031-005
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 1951 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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