Statistic characteristics of fatigue properties in magnesium alloy

✍ Scribed by S. Mohd; Y. Otsuka; Y. Miyashita; Y. Mutoh

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 433 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1877-7058
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.205

✦ Synopsis

The knowledge of statistic characteristics in mechanical properties is important for designers in order to assess the reliability of structures. Scatter characteristics of fatigue limit, fatigue life and tensile strength for magnesium alloy were investigated in this study. At least 20 specimens were tested to obtain the scatter data of fatigue limit, fatigue life and tensile strength, respectively. The probability distributions of fatigue limit, fatigue life and tensile strength were evaluated by using Normal distribution and Weibull distribution function. The values of the Weibull modulus, m were 159, 10, 175 for fatigue limit, fatigue life and tensile strength, respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that scatter of fatigue limit is small and almost coincides with that of tensile strength, while scatter of fatigue life is significantly large compared to those of fatigue limit and tensile strength. The large scatter of fatigue life will be due to crack nucleation and small crack growth processes, which strongly depend on local microstructure near the crack nucleation region.