High temperature fatigue properties and crack initiation and its expansion mechanism of high nitrogen bearing steel

The flexural fatigue properties of 40Cr15Mo2VN high nitrogen bearing steel at 200?? was 883MPa, which was 17% lower than that at room temperature. The results show that the types of fatigue failure are surface failure initiation and internal non- metallic inclusion. Compared with room temperature, the threshold value of fatigue stress intensity factor ??Kth at 200?? decreases by 20%, leading to the reduction of the critical non- metallic inclusion size at the start of fatigue crack initiation. The interaction of small cracks near the fatigue source in the surface initiation cracks at 200?? increases the stress intensity factor KI and accelerates the initial surface crack propagation. At the same time, according to the ratio of the nominal stress amplitude and the ultimate fatigue strength of the non- metallic inclusions in the high- nitrogen bearing steel, the influence of the size, position and temperature of the non- metallic inclusions on the fatigue life was analyzed.