Formation of System of Scattered Fatigue Damages and Their Effect on Fracture of Structural Silicon Steel

International Multi-Conference on Industrial Engineering and Modern technologies

Buslaeva, I.I.^1 ; Yakovleva, S.P.^1,2 ; Makharova, S.N.^2

Yakut Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Petrovskogo street, Yakutsk

677980, Russia^1

Institute of Physical-Technical Problems of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Oktyabr'skaya street, Yakutsk

677980, Russia^2

关键词: Fatigue failures;    Machine element;    Microhardness distribution;    Operating condition;    Operational impacts;    Permafrost region;    Residual life;    Structural damages;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/463/3/032005/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/463/3/032005

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Forecasting of a residual life of machine elements and structures requires consideration of changes of a metal condition during operation. The aim of this article was to study accumulation of critical fatigue damage in structural silicon steel under operational impacts characteristic of the permafrost region. The metal of various zones of a failed main leaf of a truck spring, which was operated under the subarctic conditions, was investigated. It was revealed that formation of a system of volume scattered microdamages at a level of substructure and mesoscale damages in a form of fine and coarse pores ranging in size from a few micrometers to ≈40 μm preceded fatigue failure of the spring. It is shown that at a stage of material prefracture a deviation of a microhardness distribution from the normal distribution is observed. For the considered operating conditions, a determining role of presence of multiple fine pores in reducing resistance to the fatigue failure as compared to the presence of the coarse pores has been established. Results can be used in development of methods for studying the structural damage of materials and identification of fatigue failure stages.