Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 8-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2016.10.003
Keywords
Statistical size effect; Critical distance; Low cycle fatigue; Life prediction; Stress concentration; Highly-stressed-volume
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51675024, 51305012, 51375031]
- Aviation Science Fund of China [2014ZB51]
- Defense Industrial Technology Development Program [B2120132006]
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Titanium alloy has been widely used for compressor discs in aero-engines due to its high specific strength. As a common geometry feature in compressor discs, bolt hole with stress concentration can cause compressor discs to fail under low cycle fatigue (LCF). In this study, the statistical size effect of such Stress concentrators was investigated by LCF experimentations and theoretical predictions for titanium alloy plate specimens with a central circular hole (CHP). Four different scales of test sections without the influence of geometrical size were specially designed and experimental tests were conducted under LCF loading at 180 degrees C. The strain-controlled LCF tests of smooth specimen were also carried out at the same temperature. It is found that the predicted LCF lifetime from the theory of critical distance (TCD) correlates well with experimental results for the 100%-scale CHP specimens. However, it fails to accurately predict the dependence of LCF lifetime on the statistical size effect for CHP specimens at the other scales i.e., 40%-scale, 60%-scale, and 80%-scale. Furthermore, a novel methodology combining the TCD and highly-stressed-volume models is proposed to evaluate the statistical size effect, which exhibits much improved accuracy than the TCD method alone. The new model not only inherits the versatility of the TCD method but providing an essential assessment of the statistical size effect. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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