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A damage equation based upon the integration of low cycle fatigue plastic strain ranges was verified experimentally for two high strength aluminum alloys 2024-T4 and 7075-T651. The damage equation which has been used extensively for many fatigue crack propagation theories assumes cyclic damage under increasing plastic strain ranges. In order to verify the damage equation, low cycle fatigue specimens were subjected to a fully reversed strain cycle in which the total strain-range was increased linearly by a constant amount Δ[Δεd] per cycle. An excellent agreement was obtained between the predicted and observed fatigue lifetimes. The stress-strain response of these alloys was also measured. The experimental results showed that these two alloys cyclically harden substantially and that the single strain increment stress-strain curve is a fair lower bound approximation of the cyclic stress-strain curve.
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Jablonski, D.A., Pelloux, R.M. An Evaluation of the summation of cyclic plastic strain damage in two high strength aluminum alloys. Metall Trans A 10, 63–66 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686407
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686407