Multiaxial fatigue life estimations for 6082-T6 cylindrical specimens under in-phase and out-of-phase biaxial loadings

Fully reversed bending/torsion fatigue tests were conducted on 6082-T6 solid cylindrical specimens under force control. Specimens were subjected to pure bending, pure torsion, in-phase and out-of-phase bending/torsion loadings and the investigated fatigue lives ranged between 104 and 2.106 cycles to failure. The actual strains were measured by means of strain gauges positioned in correspondence of critical points. Experimental strain measurements highlighted that all the tests were conduced in pure elastic stress conditions. The material fatigue behaviour was studied by analysing the cracks pattern due to the considered biaxial loadings. All the tests showed that crack initiation was always MODE II dominated (that is, it occurred on the plain of maximum shear stress amplitude), whereas the crack propagation was MODE I governed. Just in the presence of pure torsional loadings cracks grew under MODE II loadings. A good correlation with measured fatigue lives was obtained by applying the Susmel and Lazzarin's criterion valid for homogeneous and isotropic materials, despite the slight degree of anisotropy showed by the material.

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