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Application of an energy-based life prediction model to bithermal and thermomechanical fatigue

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:36452
The inelastic hysteresis energy applied to the material in a cycle is used as the basis for predicting nonisothermal fatigue life of a wrought cobalt-base superalloy, Haynes 188, from isothermal fatigue data. Damage functions that account for hold-time effects and time-dependent environmental phenomena such as oxidation and hot corrosion are proposed in terms of the inelastic hysteresis energy per cycle. The proposed damage functions are used to predict the bithermal and thermomechanical fatigue lives of Haynes 188 between 316 and 760 C from isothermal fatigue data. Predicted fatigue lives of all but two of the nonisothermal tests are within a factor of 1.5 of the experimentally observed lives.
Research Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center
OSTI ID:
36452
Report Number(s):
N--95-20179; NASA-TM--106684; E--9038; NAS--1.15:106684; CNN: NAS3-27186; RTOP 505-63-5B
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English