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Estimating durability of steels at repeated bending impacts

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Many components are subjected to repeated impacts, or in some cases these impacts can appear as additional loads. Repeated impacts define a fatigue phenomenon known under the name of Impact Fatigue. Because the strain rate changes the material characteristics it is to expect that the material properties at impact fatigue to be different in regard to those obtained at non-impact fatigue. This paper presents a classification of repeated impact tests, and starting from this a series of parameters used for durability estimation will be analyzed. The high number of parameters used by different authors creates difficulties in comparison the different laboratories results. The importance of the shape and dimensions of specimens, and the stiffness of supports are highlighted. In order to avoid these influences the authors proposed an experimental technique, based on testing of Charpy specimens, in similar conditions as single impact test. A new parameter η is proposed in order to correlate the durability at repeated impacts with the Charpy V Notch (CVN) impact energy.

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    Ion Dumitru, Liviu Marsavina & Nicolae Faur

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Dumitru, I., Marsavina, L. & Faur, N. Estimating durability of steels at repeated bending impacts. Int J Fract 157, 89–100 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-008-9295-2

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