A Study on the Low Cycle Fatigue Characteristics for the Structural Low Carbon Steels

構造용 低炭素鋼材의 低사이클 疲勞特性에 관한 硏究

In recent years, the fatigue design method by analysis for the mechanical components and the welded structures has much increased, instead of the fatigue design method by rule that has been widely used from the past days. When a fatigue design is conducted by that method, the basic informations, fatigue life curves are mainly obtained from the results of the strain controlled low cycle fatigue test. From these point of views, the low cycle fatigue test is coming to be given a much importance lately. In this paper, the strain controlled low cycle fatigue properties at room temperature in air environment were investigated for the low carbon forged steel, SF45A, and the rolled steel for the welded structure, SM 41B. Throughout the test, strain ratio, R, was maintained constant with the fully reversed condition, -1. As the experimental results, the cyclic stress-strain behaviours of the test materials were different each other, but the low cycle fatigue life-time of them appeared to show little difference in the region of this test conditions.

본 연구에서는 단조과정을 거친후 노멀라이징(normalizing) 처리된 SF45A강종과 압연후 자연 냉각시킨 SM41B강종의 두 국산 강종에 대해 저사이클 피로시험을 행하여 저사이클 피로특성을 밝히고, 강재의 가공공정과 부하변형율변화에 따른 피로과정중의 연화 및 경화 거동을 관찰하였다. 그리고 저사이클 피로파면의 미시적 고찰을 통해서 부하변형율 크기에 따른 미시적 파면 양상의 변화를 밝혀 파괴 해석의 기초자료로 제공하였다.