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Special Testing Equipment and Validation of Measurement Methodologies for High Temperature Low Cycle Fatigue Testing of Miniature Metallic Specimens

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A technique for high temperature low cycle fatigue testing of metallic materials has been developed, to determine fatigue behaviour through the testing of miniature specimens. The miniature specimen geometry was specifically designed, such that it could be manufactured from a small volume of material removed by chain-drilling extraction. An extensometry method to measure and control strain at the specimen shoulders during testing was adopted. This was undertaken to minimise the deleterious contact effects that can occur via extensometry attached at the gauge length of specimens, hence leading to premature failure and inaccurate fatigue data. By the application of this technique, the high temperature low cycle fatigue behaviour of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel was successfully characterised at 540 °C, under a fully reversed strain-controlled regime. The fatigue properties of the steel obtained from testing miniature specimens were shown to correlate well with existing literature for the material under comparable conditions, as determined by the testing of conventional standard-sized specimens.

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M.D.C. acknowledges the financial support for this work, given by the Australian Federal Government through the Australian Postgraduate Award scheme, as well as funding from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering through the AINSE Postgraduate Research Award. The authors would like to thank the reviewers whose comments and suggestions undoubtedly improved some of the technical clarity and considerations in this paper.

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    M. D. Callaghan & W. Y. Yeung

  2. School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    M. D. Callaghan

  3. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Institute of Materials Engineering, New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW, 2234, Australia

    S. R. Humphries, M. Law & P. Bendeich

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Callaghan, M.D., Humphries, S.R., Law, M. et al. Special Testing Equipment and Validation of Measurement Methodologies for High Temperature Low Cycle Fatigue Testing of Miniature Metallic Specimens. Exp Mech 56, 1039–1050 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-016-0145-2

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