Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5015127 | International Journal of Fatigue | 2017 | 37 Pages |
Abstract
This work investigates the fatigue strength of multiaxially-loaded gas engine crankshafts incorporating electroslag remelted 50CrMo4 steel. Uniaxial fatigue tests with small-scale round specimens before and after performing the ESR process are conducted. The results reveal that the high-cycle fatigue strength at the run-out region significantly decreases by 21% if no ESR-treatment is performed. Multiaxial fatigue tests under proportional normal and shear stress loading demonstrate that the elliptical model by Gough and Pollard leads to a minor underestimation of 5% compared to the test results. An application of several state-of-the-art equivalent stress hypotheses utilizing the critical plane approach is presented and the estimated results are compared to the experiments in terms of high-cycle fatigue resistance and crack initiation angle.
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Authors
M. Leitner, Z. Tuncali, R. Steiner, F. Grün,