Journal
FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS & STRUCTURES
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 197-213Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2009.01326.x
Keywords
case hardening; fatigue life prediction; sub-surface cracking
Funding
- American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
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This paper presents experimental and analytical results on fatigue behaviour of case-hardened steel. Fully reversed strain-controlled constant amplitude axial fatigue tests were performed on through-hardened case, through-hardened core and case-hardened steel specimens. Surface versus sub-surface cracking and the role of residual stresses and their relaxation are discussed. Multi-layer models of the case-hardened specimens were used to predict crack nucleation sites as well as fatigue lives, and the predictions corresponded well with the experimental results. Linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) was also used to conduct fatigue crack growth analysis to further explain the experimental observations from the fracture surfaces of the case-hardened specimens. A fatigue strength estimation method based on hardness and inclusion size was used to estimate the fatigue limit of the materials investigated. Fractography of fracture surfaces and crack nucleation location are also presented.
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