S45C炭素鋼の低サイクル疲労強度に及ぼす平均応力の影響 : 真応力制御疲労試験  [in Japanese] Effect of Mean Stress on Low-Cycle Fatigue Strength of a Medium Carbon streel S45C : True Stress-Controlled Cycling  [in Japanese]

Nominal stress-controlled low-cycle fatigue life under imposed mean stress is affected by elongation or contraction due to cyclic stress-induced creep. Therefore, the effect of mean stress was examined by a microcomputer-assisted testing device which provices tree stress controlled loading. Through investigation of a medium carbon steel (S45C), the following results, were obtained: (1) Cyclic plastic strain amplitude at the steady cyclic stress-strain state decreased with an increase of the imposed tensil mean stress. (2) The cyclic stress-induced creep proceeded so far as the mean stress was imposed. The increase in axial cyclic creep strain per cycle was proportional to the nth power of the maximum cyclic stress. (3) For the same cyclic stress amplitude, the application of tensil or compressive mean stress prolonged the fatigue life as compared with the fully reversed stressing. (4) A modified Manson-Coffin relation including such two parameters as the cyclic stress amlitude and the mean stress was proposed for evaluating the fatigue strength under cyclic stress-induced creep condition.