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Fatigue life improvements of the AISI 304 stainless steel ground surfaces by wire brushing

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The surface and subsurface integrity of metallic ground components is usually characterized by an induced tensile residual stress, which has a detrimental effect on the fatigue life of these components. In particular, it tends to accelerate the initiation and growth of the fatigue cracks. In this investigation, to deliberately generate compressive residual stresses into the ground surfaces of the AISI 304 stainless steel (SS), wire brushing was applied. It was found that under the experimental conditions selected in this investigation, while the surface roughness was slightly improved by the brushing process, the surface residual stress shifted from a tensile stress (σ‖=+450 MPa) to a compressive stress (σ‖=−435 MPa). On the other hand, the work-hardened deformation layer was almost two times deeper after wire brushing. Concerning the fatigue life, an improvement of 26% in terms of endurance limit at 2×106 cycles was realized. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations of the fatigue fracture location and size were carried out to explain the fatigue life improvement. It was found that the enhancement of the fatigue strength could be correlated with the distribution and location of the fatigue fracture nucleation sites. Concerning the ground surfaces, it was seen that the fatigue cracks initiated at the bottom of the grinding grooves and were particularly long (150–200 µm). However, the fatigue cracks at the brushed surfaces were shorter (20–40 µm) and appeared to initiate sideways to the plowed material caused by the wire brushing. The results of the wire-brushed surface characterization have shown that significant advantages can be realized regarding surface integrity by the application of this low-cost process compared to shot peening.

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    Nabil Ben Fredj, Mohamed Ben Nasr, Amir Ben Rhouma & Habib Sidhom

  2. Laboratoire de Microstructure et Mécanique des Matériaux, ENSAM, CNRS ESA 8006, 75013, Paris, France

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Ben Fredj, N., Ben Nasr, M., Ben Rhouma, A. et al. Fatigue life improvements of the AISI 304 stainless steel ground surfaces by wire brushing. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 13, 564–574 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1361/15477020420819

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