A Comparison of Fatigue Properties of Austempered Versus Quenched and Tempered 4340 Steel |
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Authors: | John M Tartaglia Kathy L Hayrynen |
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Affiliation: | 1. Engineering, Stork Climax Research Services, Wixom, MI, USA 2. Technical Division, Applied Process Inc, Livonia, MI, USA
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Abstract: | This study was conducted to determine if austempered 4340 steel had different fatigue resistance compared to quench and tempered (Q&T) 4340 steel with an identical hardness of nominally 45 HRC and an identical yield strength of nominally 1340?MPa (194?ksi). Strain-life and stress-life fatigue testing was conducted at room temperature under identical test conditions. The standard array of strain-life and stress-life regression constants was obtained. The two heat treatments produced virtually identical total strain-life curves and fatigue limits at 5 million cycles. However, the two materials exhibited different trends in the elastic and plastic strain regimes. The austempered steel exhibited greater high cycle fatigue (finite) lives than the Q&T samples at comparable elastic strain amplitudes in strain-life fatigue testing and at comparable stress amplitudes in stress-life fatigue testing. However, the Q&T samples exhibited greater low cycle fatigue lives than the austempered samples at comparable plastic strain amplitudes in strain-life testing. Although both materials generally exhibited similar fatigue fracture characteristics, the overload regions of the Q&T samples were composed entirely of dimple rupture, whereas the austempered samples exhibited both dimple rupture and quasicleavage. |
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