Multiaxial vibration fatigue-A theoretical and experimental comparison

Random vibration excitation is a common cause of failure, especially if natural dynamics is excited. The high-cycle vibration-fatigue analysis typically requires the structural dynamics analysis, the response analysis and the fatigue analysis. The material parameters (S-N curve) are obtained at uniaxial stress state. However, in real structures the stress state is rarely uniaxial and the direct application of the S-N curve is difficult. The stress tensor is reduced to a more manageable representation using a multiaxial criterion. In this study, maximum normal stress, maximum shear stress, maximum normal-and-shear stress, C-S criterion, Projection-by- Projection and the Preumont and Piefort criterion for multiaxial stress state are compared theoretically and experimentally. The crack location and the time-to-failure were compared. The time-to-failure was found relatively accurate with all multiaxial criteria; however, the crack-location estimation was found not to be accurate enough for either of the compared criteria. The study proves the applicability of the vibration-fatigue analysis procedure on real vibrating structures with rich structural dynamics. Random vibration excitation is a common cause of failure, especially if natural dynamics is excited. The high-cycle vibration-fatigue analysis typically requires the structural dynamics analysis, the response analysis and the fatigue analysis. The material parameters (S-N curve) are obtained at uniaxial stress state. However, in real structures the stress state is rarely uniaxial and the direct application of the S-N curve is difficult. The stress tensor is reduced to a more manageable representation using a multiaxial criterion. In this study, maximum normal stress, maximum shear stress, maximum normal-and-shear stress, C-S criterion, Projection-by-Projection and the Preumont and Piefort criterion for multiaxial stress state are compared theoretically and experimentally. The crack location and the time-to-failure were compared. The time-to-failure was found relatively accurate with all multiaxial criteria; however, the crack-location estimation was found not to be accurate enough for either of the compared criteria. The study proves the applicability of the vibration-fatigue analysis procedure on real vibrating structures with rich structural dynamics. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.