Abstract
Fretting fatigue has emerged as the center of interest for research in recent decades due to its high importance in real application field. Despite this advancement, comparatively few experiments as well as studies have been accomplished on bending fretting fatigue. Researchers either developed new test rigs or accepted a conventional concept since there exists no specific, standalone and standard test rig. However, as it is difficult to compare each work with others, the increasing number of test rigs are not suitable to ensure the justified results under conditional circumstance. This article classified the existing bending fretting fatigue test rigs depending on the variable parameters like fretting and loading actions. It can be mentioned that reciprocating fretting fatigue test rigs have more diversities as compared to rotary fretting fatigue test rigs due to the advantages of variable loading values, displacement controlling, fretting damage pre-determination and other desirable purposes. This article might be useful as a state of art for future contributions of the modern technology in industrial applications.
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1 Introduction
Fretting is characterized as the continuous but slow erode of something by friction of contact. It is a type of surface deterioration process occurring in the adjacent territory of two bodies under load and ignorable dislocation by some forces [1]. It presents surface deterioration [2,3,4,5]. In spite of numerous researches on fretting fatigue, only a few experiments have been counted on bending fretting fatigue that occurs within two connected bodies trying to sliding/rolling over that surface. It was proved by Hattori [6] that the fretting fatigue strength decreased is less than one-third of simple fatigue strength. If the relative motion is dominated by cyclic bending force, it is then termed as bending fretting fatigue. The common applications are in contact like bolts, railway axles, nuclear reactors, wheel-sets etc. [7,8,9]. Some researches established the relationship between plain fatigues and dislocated structures [10,11,12] when others emphasized on fretting [13]. Hills and Nowell derived fretting fatigue mechanism and classified test rigs based on the contact geometry [7]. De Pauw et al. [14] reviewed and presented a diversity of rigs in 2011. Those were classified as full and coupon scale testing setups where coupon scale had much varieties and slip control advantage Peng and Zhu [15,16,17] used a servo-hydraulic clamped rig for bending fretting of various materials. Ebara and Fujimura [8] experimented on shoe-bolt tightened bending fretting test rig. Kubota [18] studied and showed the H2 effect on bending fretting fatigue using bar-spring tightened test rig. Zalnezhad and Ahmed designed a new test rig for rotary bending fretting fatigue [19, 20], Song [21] conveyed comparatively complex setup for justifying rotary bending fretting on railway axle. Recent researches are being carried out on rotating bending [22, 23]. Van Paepegem et al. [24] used bending fatigue rig for composite materials where fretting action can be considered between sample and fixed joint. Notable reviews and experiments were carried out on wear, fatigue [25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38] as well as fretting fatigue [23, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49] However, relatively less on bending accelerated fretting fatigue [22, 50,51,52]. Considering all above mentioned parameters with conditions, some perfect attributes [53] of fretting fatigue test rigs (FFTR) must have Versatility to various dimensions and stiffness of the samples and fretting pads; Possibility to perform different states of load (constant or alternating load); Scope to create fretting fatigue mechanism by recording the information from various tried materials that could be applied to different model to foresee the fatigue life; Accessibility to gauge fretting stresses and strains; Minimal cost of setup to perform a few tests at the same time; Flexibility of load recurrence.
The aim of the present article is to review and demonstrate the most recent bending fretting fatigue test rigs with different concepts. This article may pave the innovative ways for imagination to design and fabricate new types of test rigs. Future researchers may find this article helpful for evaluating the properties of bending fretting fatigue of different materials in the concerned industrial applications.
2 Recent bending fretting fatigue test rigs
Figure 1 shows a simple bending fretting fatigue setup. Here A denotes loading at the edge of the sample. B shows fretting pads at the middle portion of the sample. As loading is applied, body bends and fretting action occurs between the sample and pad. As loading reciprocates along Y–Y axis, it is thus termed as reciprocating bending fretting fatigue. If specimen rotates along the axis through center while bending, then the system is called rotating bending fretting fatigue.
2.1 RBFFTR (reciprocating bending type fretting fatigue test rig)
2.1.1 Bar-spring fastened double bending fretting fatigue test rig [18]
Figure 2 presents a test rig used in [18]. A pair of friction pads were tightened over the top and back areas of tests specimen. Pressure of contact was adjusted for keeping constant normal pressure of 100 MPa. Tightening the system implied the load of contact. In order to balance decrease in contact load by increasing fretting wear, contact load was kept steady by negligible wear. At the final stage, contact load decreased by 5% of the beginning value. Fatigue loading was plane bending type where stress ratio and frequency were 1 and 18.7 Hz respectively. Figure 2 shows the test specimen size and shape under contact of pads. Specimen was square bar type with glued strain gage to the flat contact pad. Hydrogen gas and air was used as test environment condition. By passing nitrogen gas, chamber was flushed to experiment fretting fatigue.
2.1.2 Shoe-bolt fastened bending fretting fatigue test setup [8]
Figure 3 shows fretting fatigue test setup for Ti–6Al–4V plate of 10 mm thickness with bolt tightened shoe on both side. Dimensions of fretting shoe and bolt are shown in Fig. 4 that were produced from Ti–6Al–4V and SCM4 steel, respectively. Contact pressure acts on point S in Fig. 5. The contact pressure is obtained from the strain calculated by a strain gage settled at the bolt center. The maximum load Pmax is mentioned by Pmax = 0.418(PE/lR)1/2 where, P = load per unit thickness (MPa), E = Young’s modulus (MPa), R = radius of the shoe and l = the contact length. A regular fatigue testing rig was used. Fretting fatigue setup is shown in Fig. 3.
2.1.3 Hinged loaded displacement controlled bending fretting fatigue test rig [53]
This is a fatigue testing machine for composite materials. Here, fretting fatigue action can be considered at the bolted bars tightened together with the beam especially harder than composites. There exists three modules as followings:
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First/main/control module: it creates a sinusoidal loading;
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Second/loading module: it changes loading functions;
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Third/information module: it calculates the load or stress as well as examines the qualities.
2.1.4 The primary (or control) module [53]
Plane bending fatigue testing setup is shown in Fig. 6. A three phase motor (1) and inverter (2) rotates pulley by a belt (3) connected with a shaft (4) with transmission proportion equivalent to one. Optical tachometer checks the transmission proportion. A cam (5) permits to invert rotation in a simple symmetric-oscillating motion of transmitting rod (6). The sample is tied to a bar tightened with a stand (8). Rotating disc (Q) center to hinge point (P) distance controls the stress value. Eccentricity of disc and variable length of connecting rod alters the loading type. Figure 7 shows the schematic drawing.
2.1.5 The second module [53]
Figure 8 shows second module that permits to change the connecting rod’s length and to change some geometric value. Rod expansion can be adjusted to micro level to modify the force value as well as stress type (alternating or constant). Sample’s deflection can be altered from zero to highest value. The crossbar Sliding enables samples of different lengths to be tested under maximum force.
2.1.6 The third (or data acquisition) module [53]
Loads are checked and registered by a committed procurement framework amid the trial tests. The entire framework comprises of a strain sensor (load cell), a strain pointer, an advanced simple connector and a PC as shown in Fig. 9. Special software programming, designed and developed in LabView room, permits to save and show the estimations of variety of stiffness of the composite or the bonded joint, in this way getting progressively the damage versus the time or cycles number. The abatement in stiffness is calculated through the stress till sample failure, working with steady sufficiency strain. Additionally it is conceivable to utilize any paradigm of fatigue life of composite materials.
2.1.7 Bending fretting fatigue test rig of servo hydraulic clamped type [15]
The test rig appeared in Fig. 10 shows a servo hydraulic system for testing. A tightening screw was used to imply the normal force on the sample at A–B line and A point shown in Fig. 11 amid the tests. Both setups of line and point contacts for fatigue can be evaluated as appeared. A small load cell was used to calculate the normal load as shown in Fig. 11. At the site of C–D line bending force was applied as shown in Fig. 11 for all tests. Hertzian contact theory was used to calculate normal stresses and loads [54].
2.2 Rotary bending type fretting fatigue test rig
2.2.1 General/light purpose (bridge type pads) RoBFFTR [20]
In this research work [20], fretting fatigue conceptualized rotating bending machine was used. Figures 12 and 13 presents the perspective drawing. It consists a platform (1), an engine (2), couplings (3) with shaft (4), transmission direction (5), chuck (6), pulley (7) and a load cell (8) for force measurement. Spring pair with support applied the force. FEM tool, ABAQUS was used for validating experimental results by adaptive mesh refinement. The fatigue sample possessed Young’s modulus of 72 GPa and The Poisson’s ratio equivalent to 0.3.
The bearing with pads were rigid material. Face to face little sliding contact was assumed between the pads and sample. Coefficient of Friction (COF) of 0.3 was relegated to connected pads and sample. Figure 14d additionally demonstrates that the most extreme distribution point.
2.2.2 Press-fitted joint/thick disc type pads type RoBFFTR [3]
The device used in this research [28] is appeared in Fig. 15 (left). There is a pole/shaft inserted into a hole by cooling the shaft and heating the hole. 20 kg load was implied as bending load for free movement. See Fig. 15 (Right). A motor was used to rotate the fitting as shown in Fig. 18 by method for a cinching grasp.
2.2.3 Medium purpose (Moore fatigue) RoBFFTR [55]
Moore fatigue testing machine supplied Bending fatigue mechanism. In this setup, samples are subjected to pure bending and hence to a totally reversed bending stresses. Upper side of Moore sample is without shear stresses. While turning, sample faces tension and compression simultaneously. A proven ring with strain gage was assembled to apply constant load as well as fretting load that implied by the tightening of screw and spring. Nonetheless, the yield of the Wheatstone bridge was calculated. This methodology was rehashed for various spring powers and the variety of the spring power versus the strain gage yield was acquired. This variety is known as the alignment curve of the proven ring. Furthermore, this proven ring was utilized for delivering the contact load and measuring its magnitude as a load cell. By adjusting the screws and utilizing the alignment curve, the required level of contact load can be accomplished. Fretting fatigue tests were operated at a frequency of 30 Hz. The constant contact fretting force was 1300 N throughout the experiment. S–N graph was obtained under variable bending stresses for with and without fretting conditions. It was found that fretting along with characteristics length, conforming and non-conforming contact reduces the fatigue life significantly. The total system is shown Figs. 16, 17, 18.
2.2.4 Railway axle (complex/specific) purpose RoBFFTR [21]
A rotatory setup was designed, as in Fig. 19. It shows wheel axle (15) pinchcock (16) for motion transfer. Wheel (20) was mounted to assemble wheel axle. Bending load (13) was implied and maintained by high rpm bearing. Maximum 5000 rpm was limited for speed. Velocity was regulated by AC converter. A geometrically comparative minor scale railway axle is shown in Fig. 20.
2.2.5 Experimental details [21]
Here in the research [21], 1 × 107 cycles was marked as the fatigue life that crack would not be initiated before. Two wheels of Chinese fast railroad, 300 and 350 kmph, were reenacted. To be specific, revolving speed for the velocity was 1800 and 2100 rpm for the last one. On completion of the tests, the contact portions were divided by wire electro-release. Affected zones were pieces into little samples. These samples were put into ultrasonic cleaner liquid, (CH3)2CO to evacuate the contaminations. An examining electron magnifying lens (SEM) and an optical magnifying instrument were utilized to examine morphologies. The cracks were found on the surface of these samples by SEM.
3 Discussion
Each of the rigs has uniqueness in specific fields. Rotary test rig is useful to exert much stress on the fretting zone when complex type is used for railway axle sample. Moore test rig is advantageous in the sense of pure, totally reversed bending without any existence of shearing force. Hinged-loaded rig has advantage of displacement-control as sinusoidal wave loading. Nonetheless, it has three modules having special controlling purpose each. However, Servo-Hydraulic clamped rig is capable of exerting sufficient force by the advantage of hydraulic press. It is also capable to keep cylindrical fretting pad stable in their definite location which is related to slip occurrence. Bar-spring tightened rig is beneficial when it requires both side bending and greater contact of fretting zone with gaseous atmosphere. Shoe-bolt type is almost similar to servo-hydraulic type except limited loading, pad type and vertical position. As a discussed summary, classification of Bending Fretting Fatigue Test Rigs can be shown as in Fig. 21.
4 Conclusion
Different types of bending fretting fatigue test rigs have been described in this article. Depending on the specimen size and shapes, loading-clamping types with direction, full scale i.e., real/in situ geometry and coupon scale geometry i.e. concentrated area of interest, testing setups are being designed in versatile dimensions. Moreover, contact geometry as well as fretting pad shape and size also plays a vital role on the design of bending fretting fatigue test rigs. Data acquisition for load points and stress/strain controlled atmosphere brings complicity to some extents. Discussed articles have been summarized as a gist just to give some hints on the parametric design requirements for upcoming more complex design to achieve multi-dimensional results with preciseness. It may be concluded that, each type of existing test rig is regarded noteworthy because of their user/researcher required specifications. Future researchers might utilize any of the presented rigs depending upon the desired testing conditions like slip, loading value, pad type, displacement and other related operating and processing parameters to develop a new universal test rig of fretting fatigue for industrial applications.
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Zobaer Shah, Q.M., Asaduzzaman Chowdhury, M. & Arefin Kowser, M. On the diversity in design for different bending fretting fatigue mechanism. SN Appl. Sci. 1, 1067 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-1107-y
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