Influence of residual stresses from shot peening on fretting fatigue crack growth

One method to improve fretting fatigue life is to shot peen the contact surfaces. Experimental fretting life results from specimens in a Titanium alloy with and without shot peened surfaces were evaluated numerically. The residual stresses were measured at different depths below the fretting scar and compared to the corresponding residual stress profile of an unfretted surface. Thus, the amount of stress relaxation during fretting tests was estimated. Elastic–plastic finite element computations showed that stress relaxation was locally more significant than that captured in the measurements. Three different numerical fatigue crack growth models were compared. The best agreement between experimental and numerical fatigue lives for both peened and unpeened specimens was achieved with a parametric fatigue growth procedure that took into consideration the growth behaviour along the whole front of a semi‐elliptical surface crack. Furthermore, the improved fretting fatigue life from shot peening was explained by slower crack growth rates in the shallow surface layer with compressive residual stresses from shot peening. The successful life analyses hinged on three important issues: an accurate residual stress profile, a sufficiently small start crack and a valid crack growth model.     

The influence of partial surface shot peening on fatigue crack growth behaviour of a high‐strength ferritic steel

The effects of partial surface shot peening on the fatigue crack growth behaviour of a ferritic steel have been experimentally investigated in this paper. Dog‐bone specimens fabricated from Optim700QL were tested under tension‐tension fatigue loads. Three distinct extents of partial shot peening, with respect to the crack tip and specimen symmetry line, were tested. The fatigue crack growth results from these experiments have been compared with those obtained from the same specimen geometry but with no peening. The results show that the residual stress fields formed ahead of the initial notch tip due to the partial peening process play a significant role in the fatigue crack growth behaviour of the material and effectively result in accelerated crack propagation at the midwidth of the specimens. It has been shown in this study that partial peening can lead to a fatigue crack growth rate around twice as fast as that of the unpeened specimen.     

Effects of Shot‐Peening on Fretting Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in Ti‐6Al‐4V

Abstract: The effects of shot‐peening on fretting fatigue crack growth behaviour in titanium alloy, Ti‐6A1‐4V were investigated. Three shot‐peening intensities: 4A, 7A and 10A were considered. The analysis involved the fracture mechanics and finite element sub‐modelling technique to estimate crack propagation lives. These computations were supplemented with the experimentally measured total fretting fatigue lives of laboratory specimens to assess the crack initiation lives. Shot‐peening has significant effect on the initiation/propagation phases of fretting fatigue cracks; however this effect depends upon the shot‐peening intensity. The ratio of crack initiation and total life increased while the ratio of the crack propagation and total life decreased with an increase of shot‐peening intensity. Effects of residual compressive stress from shot‐peening on the crack growth behaviour were also investigated. The fretting fatigue crack propagation component of the total life with relaxation increased in comparison to its counterpart without relaxation in each shot‐peened intensity case while the initiation component decreased. Improvement in the fretting fatigue life from the shot‐peening and also with an increase in the shot‐peening intensity appears to be not always due to increase in the crack initiation resistance from shot‐peened induced residual compressive stress.     

Short‐crack thresholds and propagation in an AISI 4340 steel under the effect of SP residual stresses

The effect of residual stresses induced by shot‐peening in a high‐strength AISI 4340 steel has been studied with the purpose of deriving a consistent fatigue model incorporating the results of fatigue crack growth experiments in the threshold region for a broad range of load ratio (R‐ratio ranging from ?2.5 to 0.7), and the effect of short cracks by means of a modified El‐Haddad model. The proposed model, taking into account the effect of crack closure and being capable to assess the conditions for fatigue propagation of short cracks partially embedded in the shot‐peened surface layer, was validated against constant amplitude fatigue experiments conducted in the endurance strength region, ie, for fatigue lives up to 10⁷ cycles, with micronotched specimens in the presence of shot‐peening residual stresses. The proposed model was also validated by comparing the results of fatigue crack propagation simulations with fatigue crack growth experiments under variable amplitude loading, experimentally reproducing the combined effect of service fatigue loads and shot‐peening residual stresses.     

Influence of shot peening on fatigue durability of normalized steel subjected to variable amplitude loading

The influence of shot peening on the fatigue durability of normalized carbon steels subjected to variable amplitude loading has been investigated. The relaxation of residual stresses was recorded during the fatigue life time. Strain amplitude spectra were extracted from real spectra recorded from components in service. The results were compared with data achieved from constant amplitude testing. In both types of tests parallel studies were made on both peened and unpeened specimens. Shot peening leads to pronounced increase in life time, especially for smaller amplitudes. For both variable and constant amplitude loading shot peened specimens exhibit longer life provided the residual stresses during fatigue loading do not relax more than to about 60% of their initial value. To get an improvement in life time of at least a factor two for peened specimens, the stress amplitude in constant amplitude loading or the maximum stress amplitude in variable amplitude history must not be more than 20% larger than the magnitude of the initial residual stresses. This limit corresponds to 1.2 times the yield strength of the unaffected material.     

激光喷丸强化对半圆孔件疲劳寿命的影响

为研究激光喷丸强化对7075-T6铝合金半圆孔件疲劳寿命的影响,对激光喷丸与未喷丸的试样进行了对比试验,利用X射线应力仪测定其表面残余应力,并对试样进行疲劳拉伸试验.用扫描电镜观察了两类试样疲劳断口的形貌,并采用数理统计方法对其疲劳寿命进行分析.研究表明:经激光喷丸处理区域,表面存在较大的残余压应力,幅值为310 MPa;未喷丸试样疲劳裂纹条带的宽度为0.7~0.8μm,而喷丸试样疲劳裂纹条带的宽度为0.3~0.4μm,说明喷丸试样裂纹扩展的速度比未喷丸试样慢很多;激光喷丸后半圆孔件的疲劳寿命比未喷丸的疲劳寿命提高了2.8~7.2倍.     

The influence of hammer peening on fatigue in high-strength steel

An investigation of the influence of hammer peening on fatigue crack initiation and propagation in high-strength steel has been performed using edge notch specimens. The crack initiation time was found to decrease after peening; however, the fatigue crack growth stage remained unchanged or decreased depending upon the peening parameters. The results have been used to develop an analytical model to predict the fatigue crack growth rate in peened materials, based upon the compressive residual stress effect.     

Crack incubation in shot peened AA7050 and mechanism for fatigue enhancement

Shot peening is a dynamic cold‐working process involving the impingement of peening media onto a substrate surface. Shot peening is commonly used as a surface treatment technique within the aerospace industry during manufacturing to improve fatigue performance of structural components. The compressive residual stress induced during shot peening results in fatigue crack growth retardation, improving the performance of shot‐peened components. However, shot peening is a compromise between the benefit of inducing a compressive residual stress and causing detrimental surface damage. Because of the relatively soft nature of AA7050‐T7451, shot peening can result in cracking of the constituent precipitate particles, creating an initial damage state. The aim of this paper is to understand the balance and fundamentals of these competing phenomena through a comparative study throughout the fatigue lifecycle of baseline versus shot‐peened AA7050‐T7451. Microstructure and surface topology characterization and comparison of the baseline and shot‐peened AA7050‐T7451 has been performed using scanning electron microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and optical profilometry techniques. A residual stress analysis through interrupted fatigue of the baseline and shot‐peened AA7050‐T7451 was completed using a combination of X‐ray diffraction and nanoindentation. The fatigue life performance of the baseline versus shot‐peened material has been evaluated, including crack initiation and propagation. Subsurface particles crack upon shot peening but did not incubate into the matrix during fatigue loading, presumably due to the compressive residual stress field. In the baseline samples, the particles were initially intact, but upon fatigue loading, crack nucleation was observed in the particles, and these cracks incubated into the matrix. In damage tolerant analysis, an initial defect size is needed for lifetime assessment, which is often difficult to determine, leading to overly conservative evaluations. This work provides a critical assessment of the mechanism for shot peening enhancement for fatigue performance and quantifies how incubation of a short crack is inhibited from an initially cracked particle into the matrix within a residual stress field.     

Influence of shot peening parameters on high‐cycle fatigue strength of steel produced by powder metallurgy process

In this study, the effect of shot peening parameters on fatigue strength of steel manufactured by powder metallurgy (PM) was investigated. Steel material obtained from Höganas ASC 100.29 in chemical composition of Fe–0.5% C–2% Cu was produced by using a single action press PM process. To determine the effect of shot peening parameters on fatigue performance, fatigue tests were performed on 20 unpeened and 80 shot‐peened samples, which were machined from sintered steel. Furthermore, shot‐peened samples were peened at different peening intensities, 100% and 200% saturation and full coverage conditions. Fatigue performance of steel, produced by PM process, was improved by surface peening process. For the studied PM steel, the best fatigue performance was obtained with the samples that were shot peened at 20 Almen intensity and 100% saturation. Fatigue strength and limit of the samples, however, were reduced after a certain cold work level. Higher intensity and saturation levels of peening process thus deteriorated the beneficial effect on fatigue strength and limit.     

THE EFFECT OF RESIDUAL STRESSES INDUCED BY SHOT-PEENING ON FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION IN TWO HIGH STRENGTH ALUMINIUM ALLOYS

Abstract— The crack initiation lives of peened specimens of aluminium alloys 7010 and 8090 are shorter than those of unpeened specimens. This is caused by the acceleration of crack initiation due to stress concentration in the rough peened surface, especially at fold-like defects. The crack growth rate in peened specimens is significantly reduced with increasing Δ K , i.e. with increasing crack length. At a crack length of approximately 0.3 mm this trend is reversed and the crack growth rate rapidly increases and attains the same level of crack growth rate as that in unpeened specimens. The point of smallest crack growth rate roughly corresponds to the point of maximum residual stress. The crack growth rate in a peened specimen has been modelled by assuming the effect of residual stress reduces to the equivalent stress ratio. The predicted results agree well with the experimental data.     

The effect of residual stresses arising from laser shock peening on fatigue crack growth

Residual stresses have in the past been introduced to manipulate growth rates and shapes of cracks under cyclic loads. Previously, the effectiveness of shot peening in retarding the rate of fatigue crack growth was experimentally studied. It was shown that the compressive residual stresses arising from the shot peening process can affect the rate of crack growth. Laser shock peening can produce a deeper compressive stress field near the surface than shot peening. This advantage makes this technique desirable for the manipulation of crack growth rates. This paper describes an experimental program that was carried out to establish this effect in which steel specimens were partially laser peened and subsequently subjected to cyclic loading to grow fatigue cracks. The residual stress fields generated by the laser shock peening process were measured using the neutron diffraction technique. A state of compressive stress was found near the surface and tensile stresses were measured in the mid-thickness of the specimens. Growth rates of the cracks were observed to be more affected by the tensile core than by the compressive surface stresses.     

A stress approach model for predictions of fatigue life by shot peening of EN45A spring steel

A lot of research has been done to improve fatigue strength of materials by creating compressive residual stress field in their surface layers through shot peening. In this paper, fatigue strength of shot peened leaf springs has been calculated from laboratory samples. The axial fatigue strength of EN45A spring steel specimen is evaluated experimentally as a function of shot peening in the conditions used for full-scale leaf springs testing in industries. Optimum shot peening condition for specimen is found and S/N curves of the specimens are correlated with leaf springs curve. A mathematical model has been developed which predicts the fatigue life of leaf springs for a given stress at varying shot peening conditions. Predictions from this model are compared with experimental data. The estimation of fatigue life and relaxation of compressive residual stress field are discussed.     

IMPROVING THE FATIGUE CRACK RESISTANCE OF WASPALOY BY SHOT PEENING

Four-point bending fatigue tests were conducted to study the effect of shot peening on the fatigue life of the nickel-base superalloy, Waspaloy. The influence of shot peening intensity on crack initiation, Stage I crack growth and the Stage I-to-Stage II crack growth transition phases, has been examined to identify the mechanisms by which shot peening improves fatigue resistance. The potential for extending the fatigue life of fatigue-damaged Waspaloy components has been explored by shot peening specimens which had been cyclic damaged to various degrees. The fatigue test was then continued after peening to ascertain the possibility of crack arrest or extending fatigue life. These experiments explore the possibility of 'healing' fatigue damage by a surface engineering treatment.     

Effect of surface properties on high cycle fatigue behaviour of shot peened ductile steel

Abstract

Experimental investigations into shot peened ductile steel have been carried out, applying three surface finishing conditions: as machined, standard shot peening using 100% coverage and severe shot peening with 1000% coverage (high exposure time). The properties of the shot peened surfaces were examined and characterised, and specimens were then submitted to three point bending tests. The fatigue limit was determined for each case. In this way, the dependence of fatigue behaviour on initial surface finishing properties was determined, and a relationship is suggested to describe and correlate fatigue limits with initial surface properties. A phenomenological approach is proposed to characterise and to correlate qualitatively and quantitatively the influence of local shot peened surface properties on fatigue limit of treated specimens. The Crossland multiaxial failure high cycle fatigue criterion is used in this approach to model the influence of each surface property.     

Mechanism modelling of shot peening effect on fatigue life prediction

A new mechanism modelling is proposed in this paper to explain the shot peening effect on fatigue life predictions of mechanical components. The proposed methodology is based on the crack growth analysis of shot peened specimens, which are affected by the interaction of surface roughness and residual stress produced during the shot peening process. An asymptotic stress intensity factor solution is used to include the surface roughness effect and a time‐varying residual stress function is used to change the crack tip stress ratio during the crack propagation. Parametric studies are performed to investigate the effects of surface roughness and the residual stress relaxation rate. Following this, a simplified effective residual stress model is proposed based on the developed mechanism modelling. A wide range of experimental data is used to validate the proposed mechanism modelling. Very good agreement is observed between experimental data and model predictions.     

Effect of shot peening on fatigue limit of surface flawed samples

The effects of shot peening on the fatigue limit of specimens having a semicircular notch of varied surface length, 2a , are investigated. In the case of un-peened specimens, the fatigue limit of specimens having a notch of a = 0.05 mm was equal to that of the un-notched specimens. However, the fatigue limit of a = 0.3 mm was 46% smaller than that of the un-notched specimens. On the contrary, in the case of peened specimens, the fatigue limit of a = 0.2 mm was equal to that of the un-notched specimens and furthermore, that of a = 0.3 mm was only 5% smaller than that of the un-notched specimens. Multiple non-propagating cracks were observed in peened specimens after fatigue testing. The stress intensity factor of the maximum non-propagating crack size corresponded to that of a = 0.2 mm notch. These results indicate that shot peening increases fatigue limit and decreases the likelihood that a surface flaw will result in failure.     

Effects of shot peening on fatigue properties of 0Cr13Ni8Mo2Al steel

Abstract

The influence of shot peening on the fatigue properties of 0Cr13Ni8Mo2Al steel has been studied. Changes in surface roughness, surface topography and residual compressive stress field were determined by experiments. The experimental results show that shot peening improves the fatigue property and the fatigue crack sources are pushed to the region beneath the hardened layer. Low Almen intensities should be used when 0Cr13Ni8Mo2Al steel is shot peened because of its sensitiveness to the surface roughness.     

Fatigue assessment and failure analysis of shot‐peened leaf springs

The paper deals with the fatigue and failure analysis of serial shot‐peened leaf springs of heavy trucks emphasizing on the influence of thermal treatment and shot peening on fatigue life. Experimental stress–life curves are determined by investigating smooth specimens subjected to fully reversed rotating bending conditions. These test results are compared to corresponding ones determined from cyclic three‐point bend tests on shot‐peened serial leaf springs in order to reveal the influence of the applied thermal treatment and shot peening process on the fatigue life of the high‐strength steel used for leaf spring manufacturing, dependent on the load level. Microstructure, macro‐ and micro‐hardness analyses are performed to support the analyses and explain the effects resulting from the certain shot peening process on the surface properties of the high‐strength spring steel under investigation. The assessment of the fatigue results reveals nearly no life improvement due to the manufacturing, emphasizing the necessity for mutual adjustment of shot peening and thermal treatment parameters to take account for life improvement.     

Low cycle fatigue life prediction in shot‐peened components of different geometries – part II: life prediction

This study investigates the effects of shot peening on the low‐cycle fatigue performance of a low‐pressure steam turbine blade material. The finite element model incorporating shot‐peening effects, which has been introduced in part I, has been used to predict the stabilised stress/strain state in shot‐peened samples during fatigue loading. The application of this model has been extended to different notched geometries in this study. Based on the modelling results, both the Smith–Watson–Topper and Fatemi–Socie critical plane fatigue criteria have been used to predict the fatigue life of shot‐peened samples (treated with two different peening intensities) with varying notched geometries. A good agreement between experiments and predictions was obtained. The application of a critical distance method considering the stress and strain hardening gradients near the shot‐peened surface has been found to improve the life prediction results. The effects of surface defects on the accuracy of life predictions using the proposed method were also discussed.     

Fatigue of shot peened 7075-T7351 SENB specimen – A 3-D analysis

As‐received or shot peened 7075‐T7351 single‐edged notch bend (SENB) specimens, 8.1‐mm thick, were fatigued at a constant maximum load and at stress ratios of R= 0.1 and 0.8 to predetermined numbers of fatigue cycles or to failure. The SENB specimens were then fractured by overload and the tunnelling crack profiles were recorded. The crack‐growth rate, da/dN, after crack initiation at the notch was determined by crack‐profile measurement and fractography at various fatigue cycles. The shot peened surface topography and roughness was also evaluated by three‐dimensional (3‐D) laser scanning microscopy. Residual stresses in the as‐received specimens and those generated by shot peening at Almen scales of 0.004A, 0.008A, 0.012A and 0.016A, were measured by an X‐ray diffraction stress analyser with an X‐ray target, CrK, every 0.1 mm to a depth of 1 mm. The 3‐D stress intensity factor of the curved crack front was determined by the superposition of the 3‐D finite element solutions of the stress intensity factor of the loaded SENB specimen without the residual stress and the stress intensity factor of the unloaded SENB specimen with a prescribed residual stress distribution. da/dN versus the resultant stress intensity factor amplitude, ΔK_I, plots showed that while the residual stress locally retarded the crack‐growth rate it had no effect on the overall crack‐propagation rate.