Issue 41

A. Carpinteri et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 41 (2017) 66-70; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.41.10 69 The comparison between experimental, ,exp f N , and theoretical, , f cal N , fatigue life for both uniaxial and multiaxial loadings is shown in Figs 1(a) and 1(b), respectively, where the solid line indicates  , ,exp f cal f N N , the dashed lines correspond to , ,exp f cal f N N equal to 0.5 and 2.0 (scatter band 2), and the dash-dot lines correspond to , ,exp f cal f N N equal to 0.3 and 3.0 (scatter band 3). In particular, the following remarks can be made: - for uniaxial fatigue loading (that is, pure tension or pure torsion loading, Fig. 1(a)), 71% of fatigue life calculation results are included into the scatter band 3 ; - for multiaxial fatigue loading (that is, combined tension and torsion loading with different values of biaxiality ratio, Fig. 1(b)), 76% of fatigue life calculation results are included into scatter band 3 . Moreover, better estimations are obtained by examining multiaxial fatigue data characterised by   0.6 , since all the theoretical fatigue lives fall within the scatter band 3. N f,exp [cycles] N f,cal [cycles] 10 3 10 2 10 4 10 6 10 2 10 4 10 5 10 6 Uniaxial loadings  0.0  10 5 10 3 (a) N f,cal [cycles] 10 3 10 2 10 4 10 6 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 Multiaxial loadings   0.6 0° 2.0 90° 10 5 (b) Figure 1 : Comparison between theoretical and experimental fatigue life: (a) uniaxial loadings; (b) multiaxial loadings. Figures 2(a) and 2(b) show the experimental fatigue life, ,exp f N , plotted against the equivalent strain amplitude  , eq a (see Eq. (3)) for uniaxial and multiaxial fatigue loading, respectively. The solid curves are related to the experimental tensile Manson-Coffin equation. A good agreement is in general observed since the experimental results lie very close to the theoretical curves, and this holds true independent of the applied loading conditions (i.e. for both uniaxial and multiaxial fatigue tests).  a,eq 2 * N f,exp , [cycles] 10 -1 10 -2 10 -3 10 -4 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 Uniaxial loadings  0.0  (a) 2 * N f,exp , [cycles] -1 -2 -3 -4 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 Multiaxial loadings   0.6 0° 2.0 90° (b) Figure 2 : Fatigue life experimental data plotted in terms of the equivalent normal strain amplitude (Eq. (3)): (a) uniaxial loadings; (b) multiaxial loadings. The solid lines refer to the tensile Manson-Coffin equation.