Lebensdauer- und Dauerfestigkeitsabschätzung von zugdruckwechsel- und zugschwellbeanspruchtem Stahl mittels Temperaturmessung

Estimation of the Endurance and the Fatigue Limit of Steel by Measuring Specimens′ Temperatures. Microplastic deformation processes are pre-requisites for fatigue crack formation within metallic materials. If the testing frequency of a specimen, cyclically stressed by a progressively-increasing load test, is not too low it is no great metrological problem to ascertain that special stress amplitude, σ_f,th (f ? fatigue limit, th ? thermometrical), at which specimen's temperature begins to rise due to the start of ‘remarkable’ microplastic deformations. Investigations of this kind, recently carried out by rotating bending showed a very good correspondence between σ_f,th and a statistically ascertained estimate of the fatigue limit, \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ \hat \sigma _{({\rm P} \simeq {\rm 0}\%{\rm)}} $\end{document} (P ? Probability of fracture), derived from comparatively performed Wöhler-tests. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between σ_f,th and \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ \hat \sigma _{({\rm P} \simeq {\rm 0}\%{\rm)}} $\end{document} for some carbon steels when cyclically stressed by push-pull and pulsating tensile loading, respectively. Both, unnotched and notched specimes were tested. Moreover, thermometrically monitored Wöhler-tests revealed that temperature measurements can provide a short-cut prediction of specimens′ lives. Above all it has to be mentioned that a reliable clue is gettable at a very early experimental stadium whether the cyclic stressed specimen will later become a ‘break’ or – normally much later – a ‘run-out’.