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S N Curve: Curve - This Is A Graph of The Magnitude of A Cyclic Stress (S)

The document discusses the history and mechanics of material fatigue. It describes how micrographs from 1903 showed how surface fatigue cracks grow with further cycling. It then discusses key developments in 1970 by W. Elber on the mechanisms of crack closure slowing fatigue crack growth. Most historical attention focused on situations requiring over 10,000 cycles where deformation is primarily elastic. It defines an S-N curve as a common way to characterize high-cycle fatigue, plotting stress magnitude against logarithmic scale of cycles to failure based on testing samples under regular cyclic stress loads. The progression of the S-N curve can be influenced by various factors such as corrosion, temperature, and residual stresses.

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S N Curve: Curve - This Is A Graph of The Magnitude of A Cyclic Stress (S)

The document discusses the history and mechanics of material fatigue. It describes how micrographs from 1903 showed how surface fatigue cracks grow with further cycling. It then discusses key developments in 1970 by W. Elber on the mechanisms of crack closure slowing fatigue crack growth. Most historical attention focused on situations requiring over 10,000 cycles where deformation is primarily elastic. It defines an S-N curve as a common way to characterize high-cycle fatigue, plotting stress magnitude against logarithmic scale of cycles to failure based on testing samples under regular cyclic stress loads. The progression of the S-N curve can be influenced by various factors such as corrosion, temperature, and residual stresses.

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Micrographsshowinghowsurface

fatiguecracksgrowasmaterialis
furthercycled.FromEwing&
Humfrey(1903)
reliableapplicationofMiner'sruletorandomloadings.
[11]
1970:W.Elberelucidatesthemechanismsandimportance
ofcrackclosureinslowingthegrowthofafatiguecrack
duetothewedgingeffectofplasticdeformationleftbehind
thetipofthecrack.
Historically,mostattentionhasfocusedonsituationsthatrequire
morethan10
4
cyclestofailurewherestressislowand
deformationisprimarilyelastic.
SNcurve
Inhighcyclefatiguesituations,materialsperformanceis
commonlycharacterizedbyanSNcurve,alsoknownasaWhler
curve.Thisisagraphofthemagnitudeofacyclicstress(S)
againstthelogarithmicscaleofcyclestofailure(N).
SNcurvesarederivedfromtestsonsamplesofthematerialtobecharacterized(oftencalledcoupons)
wherearegularsinusoidalstressisappliedbyatestingmachinewhichalsocountsthenumberof
cyclestofailure.Thisprocessissometimesknownascoupontesting.Eachcoupontestgeneratesa
pointontheplotthoughinsomecasesthereisarunoutwherethetimetofailureexceedsthat
availableforthetest(seecensoring).Analysisoffatiguedatarequirestechniquesfromstatistics,
especiallysurvivalanalysisandlinearregression.
TheprogressionoftheSNcurvecanbeinfluencedbymanyfactorssuchascorrosion,temperature,
residualstresses,andthepresenceofnotches.TheGoodmanLineisamethodtoestimatethe
Fatigue(material)Wikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)
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