Issue 41

T. Morishita et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 41 (2017) 45-53; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.41.07 52 (8) Life evaluation (Calculate N f from  NP ) Based on the results from categories (1)  (7), life evaluation can be performed. In the life evaluation, Manson-Coffin equation (Eq. (14)) obtained from uniaxial proportional loading fatigue test and the IS-method are employed with the rain-flow counting method. 6.0 f 12.0 f NP      NB NA (14) The result of life evaluation is also presented in Fig. 8. In the right side of Fig. 8, the name of material used and parameters A and B in Manson-Coffin are inputted. By comparing Eq. (11) and Eq. (14), Newton method for nonlinear equation was applied for life evaluation. Although the detail of the method is omitted here, the solution of Eq. (14) was obtained within 5 times of repeated calculations. In this study, the fatigue life obtained by above calculations was 21136 blocks. In the future study, the result of life estimation will be compared with experimental results. In the present paper, visualization and life estimation method was established based on IS-method and it was applied for the non-proportional multiaxial random fatigue loading. The method enables the calculation of stress and strain states under non-proportional multiaxial random loading and realizes life estimation under highly non-proportional random fatigue loading. Figure 7 : Stress waveforms of input data. Figure 8 : Output data and life evaluation result.