Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
777371 International Journal of Fatigue 2007 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

An experimental and analytical program was carried out to assess the effect of cold-working by hole expansion on the fatigue life of Alclad 2024-T3 aluminium alloy. The magnitude of the residual stresses introduced into the specimens due to cold expansion was evaluated by an X-ray diffraction procedure. Specimens containing non-cold-worked and cold-worked holes were tested under cyclic loading at an R-ratio of 0.1. The rates of fatigue crack propagation were determined by measurement of striation spacing. A main outcome of the present work was the determination of the crack-opening stress intensity as a function of the range of the stress intensity factor. For the cold-worked specimens an inverse methodology was adopted to estimate the crack-opening stress intensity as influenced by the residual stress field. Finally, a crack growth model was used to provide a correlation with the experimental fatigue lifetimes.

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