Variable amplitude fatigue of high-strength cast iron alloys for automotive applications |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Civil Engineering, Chang''an University, Xi''an 710061, China;2. Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | In the automotive sector, the cumulative damage calculation method generally applied is the Palmgren–Miner-Hypothesis with its modification according to Haibach (steeper slope of the SN-line after the knee-point) as a means of also including the damage by stress amplitudes below the knee-point. This approach results in the total damage sum of the spectrum Dspec. However, the resulting question is the value of the allowable damage sum Dal for the evaluation of Dspec ? Dal. The only design code that considers the assessment of cast iron components under spectrum loading is the FKM-Guideline of the Cooperative Research Association for Mechanical Engineering (FKM, Frankfurt/Germany) for designing machine components. Here, the theoretical Palmgren–Miner-damage sum Dth = 1.0 is still suggested as the allowable damage sum Dal despite the fact that this damage sum renders unsafe calculated fatigue lives in about 90% of all published results.The results obtained with component-like notched specimens of modern high-strength cast iron alloys (Rm = 650–800 MPa) such as EN-GJS-500-7, SiboDur 700-10 and MADI (Machinable Austempered Ductile Iron), which were investigated under a standard Gaussian spectrum for chassis applications and also for a fuller injection pump spectrum, suggest the allowable damage sum Dal = 0.3 for fatigue life estimations of components manufactured with these materials can be proposed; i.e. the allowable fatigue life is about one third compared to calculations with the theoretical damage sum Dth = 1.0 that is still used. |
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Keywords: | Cast iron alloys Constant and variable amplitude loading Allowable damage sum |
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