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Spherical indentation fatigue cracking

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Terry Evans, Brigid Shaw

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Abstract

The maximum principle stress in spherical indentation occurs at the periphery of the contact area. In a purely elastic material, the radial stress component sigma(r) is tensile whilst the hoop component sigma(theta) is compressive. The positions of sigma(r) and sigma(theta) are reversed in an elastic-plastic material under fully plastic indentation, where sigma(r) is tensile and sigma(theta) is compressive. It follows that the relative positions of sigma(r) and sigma(theta) vary as the load increases from yield towards the fully plastic deformation. This was demonstrated using a finite element (FE) model, where sigma(r), initially positive, was found to increase to a maximum and then decline with increasing load. In contrast, sigma(theta) was negative at the yield load, but increased monotonically with increasing load to become the maximum principle stress component. The FE analysis is in line with experimental observations of fatigue induced by cyclic indentation. Ring cracks were generated with lower peak loads but fatigue fracture was dominated by radial cracks when cycling was done with higher peak loads. However, shallow ring cracks were observed to form under all loads. It is believed that the shallow ring cracks result from short-range asperity interactions, which are not modelled in the FE analysis. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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Author(s): Abudaia FB, Evans JT, Shaw BA

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructures and Processing

Year: 2005

Volume: 391

Issue: 1-2

Pages: 181-187

ISSN (print): 0921-5093

ISSN (electronic): 1873-4936

Publisher: Elsevier

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2004.08.068

DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2004.08.068


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