Fatigue Damage of Materials

Section 1 Case studies on fatigue: Fatigue properties of vibration welded nylon 6 and nylon 6 ,6 butt joints; Cutting process influence on fatigue steel sheets properties; CF-18 wing full-scale fatigue testing and structural certification; Effect of the coefficient of friction on the fatigue life of splines; Fracture surface study of spur gears subjected to service loading history; Fatigue characteristics of aluminum cast alloy AC2B-T6 with cast skin; Fatigue life of asphalt concrete with rubber grains. Section 2: Computational methods: Strain field and strain history of nonproportional loading; Fatigue crack propagation analysis with the adaptive finite element mesh generator; Calculation of the stress intensity factor variation due to residual stress following an overload. Section 3 Low cycle fatigue: Estimation of the low cycle fatigue life for a submarine pressure hull; Effect of residual stress on the fatigue life resistance of Ni-base materials operating under high applied loads; Influence of strain rate on tensile and LCF properties of prior cold worked 316L stainless steel in dynamic strain aging regime; Mathematical model for modelling the cyclic hardening/softening transient response of metallic materials; Nondestructive fatigue damage assessment for Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Section 4 Fatigue crack initiation: On the mechanism and causes of cross cracking in concast low alloy manganese steel slab; Fatigue properties of high performance steel; AFM study of slip localization and surface relief evolution in fatigued ferritic X10CrAl24 stainless steel; Analysis of the effect of Kmax on the fatigue crack propagation threshold. (part contents)