Issue 43

F. Berto et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 43 (2018) 1-32; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.43.01 17 Figure 21: Synthesis by means of local SED of fatigue data from Cu-Be specimens [14]. In the medium and high cycle fatigue regime the critical SED range for un-notched specimens can be simply evaluated by using the following expression:     2 2 w n c W E (13) In Eq. (13) Δ σ n is the nominal stress range referred to the net sectional area. As said above, the weighting parameter c W has to be applied to take into account different values of the nominal load ratio. Being the actual tests referred to R =0, c w is equal to 1.0. Being Eq. (13) applied here to different temperatures the Young’s modulus has to be updated as a function of the temperature. E is equal to 206 GPa at room temperature and 135 GPa at 650°C. For a temperature of 360°C it results to be 165GPa and at 500°C it is equal to 150 GPa. For notched specimens Eq. (3) can be directly applied. For the specific case of 2 α =90° and R c /ρ =0.05/1 function F is equal to 0.7049 and H is equal to 0.5627, respectively [15, 16]. The stress concentration factor referred to the net area is equal to 3.84. 0.1 1 10 1.E+04 1.E+05 1.E+06 Number of cycles to failure, N SED range [MJ/m 3 ] Plain sp., Room temp. Plain sp., T=360°C V-notched sp., Room temp. V-notched sp., T=360°C V-notched sp., T=500°C SED range (1x10 6 , P.s. 50%)=1.72 MJ/m  k=5.3 T  W =2.25 Figure 22: Synthesis by means of local SED of fatigue data in a temperature range between room temperature up to 500°C.