UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLGICA DE ALTAMIRA

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DESTRUCTIVE TESTINGS

ING. FRANCISCO ESTRADA

FATIGUE TEST

TEAM #10

DIEGO SANTIAGO JONATHAN SEALTIEL

MARTNEZ CASTILLEJA ALEJANDRO
MUZ HERNNDEZ MARTN

MARCH 22, 2017

Fatigue.
Is the progressive, localized, permanent structural change that
occurs in materials subjected to fluctuating stresses and strains
that may result in cracks or fracture after a sufficient number of
fluctuations.
The process of fatigue.
Initial fatigue damage leading to
crack nucleation and crack initiation.
Progressive cyclic growth of a crack
(crack propagation) until the
remaining uncracked cross section of
a part becomes too weak to sustain
the loads imposed.
Final, sudden fracture of the
remaining cross section.
Types of fatigue failure.
Mechanical fatigue.
Creep fatigue.
Thermomechanical fatigue.
Corrosion fatigue.
Fretting fatigue.
Examples of fatigue
Fatigue theories.
They are three theories who studies the fatigue:

Classic teorie or high numbers of cycles theorie (S-N).

Fatigue of low of numbers of cycles.
Linear fracture mechanics.
Prediction of fatigue life.
The fatigue life of any specimen or structure is the number of
stress (strain) cycles required to cause failure.
Differences between soft steel and ductil steel

Aluminium Steel
Fatigue test.
The definition of fatigue testing
can be thought of as simply
applying cyclic loading to your test
specimen to understand how it will
perform under similar conditions in
actual use.
Equipment and devices
The most used
machine for fatigue
test is the High
Velocity Rotative
Beam Machine.
This machine test
the specimen to pure
bending through a
load.
Classification of fatigue testing machines.
Fatigue test specimens are primarily described by the mode of
loading:
Direct (axial) stress.
Plane bending.
Rotating beam.
Alternating torsion.
Combined stress.
Types of fatigue test.
There are several common types of fatigue testing as well as two
common forms:

Load controlled high cycle.

Strain controlled low cycle.
Fatigue curve.
Whler curves or S-N curves.

In high-cycle fatigue situations,

materials performance is commonly
characterized by an S-N curve, also
known as a Whler curve . This is a
graph of the magnitude of a cyclic
stress (S) against the logarithmic
scale of cycles to failure (N).
Differences between steel and aluminium
A) Steel
B) Aluminium
Essays by control for deformation
Static Stress Alternative Stress

Repeated Stress Fluctuating Stress

Fatigue test specimens.
A typical fatigue test specimen has three areas, the test section
and the two grip ends.
Specimens conditions
The minimum diameter of the test section must be between 5.08 & 25.4 mm.
The curvature radius of the reduced section must be at least 8 times the
minimum diameter of the specimen.
The lenght of the reduced section should be at least 3 times the minimum
diameter .
In addition, the area of the grip section should be at least 1.5 times that of the
minimum section of study.
Standards.
ASTM E466 Load Controlled Constant Amplitude Fatigue Tests of
Metals.
ASTM E739-91 Standard Practice for Statistical Analysis of Linear
or Linearized Stress-Life (S-N) and Strain-Life (-N) Fatigue Data.
Safety equipment
Helmet
Gloves
Safety google
Safety boots
Nose mask
Conclusions.
The fatigue tests are very important, because through these we can
know the useful life that can have each material that is tested based
on certain conditions, in this case the strain.
When a material is subjected to stresses varying in magnitude and
direction continuously, it breaks with loads below the normal crack for
a constant tension stress.
Practice
Write the parts of the High Velocity Rotative Beam Machine
Practice
Write the names of the Essays by control for deformation.
Practice Identifes the 3 phases of fatigue