FATIGUE TESTING METHODS
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A fatigue test can assess a material’s resistance to cyclic fatigue loading. By design, a material is chosen to meet or exceed the service loads predicted in applications for fatigue testing. Repeated loading and unloading in tension, compression, bending, torsion, or combinations of these stresses are produced by cyclic fatigue tests. It is usual to practice loading fatigue testing in tension, compression, compression, tension, and reverse.
A sample is introduced into a fatigue tester or test machine to be tested for fatigue, loaded under the predetermined test stress, and then discharged to zeros or the opposite load. The loading and unloading cycle is then repeated until the test’s conclusion. Depending on the test’s parameters, the test may be run for a predetermined number of cycles or until the sample fails.
On a variety of metals and alloys, polymers, and components, there is a range of fatigue tests that can be performed, including high cycle fatigue, low cycle fatigue, and specialty programmers:
- LOW CYCLE FATIGUE (LFC): Employed when materials are likely to experience plastic deformation and exceptionally high mechanical loads.
- HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE (HCF): Employed for materials with modest applied forces and when elastomeric deformation is predominant.
- THERMO-MECHANICAL FATIGUE (THM): This determines how a material will perform in a thermal environment with changing load levels and temperatures.
- ROTATING BEAM FATIGUE (RBF): A different testing technique that uses single or multipoint bending loads to produce high cycle fatigue curves at a greater frequency than typical HCF methods.
- STRESS RUPTURE TESTING (SRT): It is done to comprehend a material’s abrupt and complete collapse under stress. Loads may be imposed via hydrostatic, tensile bending, flexural, biaxial, or other techniques.
- CREEP TESTING (CT): Creep testing programs use continuous loads and high temperatures to test for ultimate material failure over a long period.
Advantages of Fatigue Testing Methods
- It makes it possible to specify the needs for maintenance and repair cycles and the safe operational life of machines.
Limitations of Fatigue Testing Methods
- Cycled stresses, residual stresses, material characteristics, internal flaws, grain size, temperature, design geometry, surface quality, oxidation, corrosion, etc., impact fatigue life.
Industrial Application of Fatigue Testing Methods
- To monitor the total load cycles till failure and assess the material stiffness and strength loss caused by repetitive loading.
- For: Aerospace materials
