Surface roughness effect on fatigue strength of aluminum alloy using
revised stress field intensity approach
- Bing-Feng Zhao,
- Jungang Ren,
- Liyang Xie,
- Lei Wang,
- Song Zhou,
- Bowen Wang
Abstract
The fatigue strength of component is known to highly depend on its
surface quality and it is very necessary to develop a reliable
appropriate mathematical model for fatigue strength assessment
considering the effect of surface roughness. In this paper, different
underlying physical mechanisms of roughness effect at different regions
of specimen were studied by the fatigue test of 7N01 aluminium alloy.
For quantitative analysis of the surface roughness effect, a revised
stress field intensity approach for fatigue strength assessment of
micro-size notch was proposed as the theoretical support. In the new
model, a new form of weight function was built to adapt the
characteristics of micro-size notch. In addition, the effect of the
field radius is weakened fundamentally on solution of the stress field
intensity and the difficulty of fatigue failure region definition in
traditional method is overcome correspondingly in the proposed model,
which makes the calculated field strength accurate and objective.
Finally, to demonstrate the validity of the revised approach
quantitatively, specimens with notches in conventional size have been
subjected to stress field intensity calculation. The results show that
the revised approach has a satisfactory accuracy compared with the other
two traditional approaches from the perspective of quantitative
analysis.