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Damage mechanisms in multiaxial cyclic loading
Investigator | prof. Mgr. Tomáš Kruml, CSc. |
Number of Project | 15-08826S |
Agency | Grantová agentura České republiky |
Duration | 2014-12-31 - 2017-12-30 |
Anotace |
The project is focused on the study of fatigue damage mechanisms of 316L stainless steel under axial/torsional loading. Specimens will be cycled in proportional and 90° out-of-phase regimes. Dislocation structures formed during cycling will be identified using TEM with a special attention to the description of persistent slip bands where cyclic plastic deformation is localized. Evolution of surface relief will be characterized by SEM and AFM. Nucleation sites of small cracks, direction of growth and crack growth rate will be determined. The crack growth rate will be related to stress intensity factor at the crack tip and J-integral, calculated using FEM. The results will be compared with known cyclic behaviour of the material in uniaxial loading. The understanding of physical mechanisms of fatigue damage enables assessing the validity of the existing models for fatigue life prediction in multiaxial loading. |