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The document contains 6 questions related to fatigue analysis and failure theories. It asks the reader to calculate stresses, estimate endurance limits, predict failure locations, and determine safety factors using Goodman, Soderberg and Gerber failure theories for rotating beams, shafts and flat bars made of steel and subjected to cyclic loads.

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23MECH02I - Tutorials 3 4

The document contains 6 questions related to fatigue analysis and failure theories. It asks the reader to calculate stresses, estimate endurance limits, predict failure locations, and determine safety factors using Goodman, Soderberg and Gerber failure theories for rotating beams, shafts and flat bars made of steel and subjected to cyclic loads.

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Tutorial 3

Q1) A tuning fork is hit with a pencil and starts to vibrate with a frequency of 440 Hz. The
maximum bending stress in the tuning fork is 2 MPa at the end positions. Calculate the mean stress,
the range of stress, the stress amplitude, the stress ratio, and the amplitude ratio.

Q2) Given a AISI 1080 steel (Sut=615 MPa), estimate:


(a) the rotating-beam endurance limit at 106 cycles.
(b) the fatigue strength of a rotating-beam specimen corresponding to 104 cycles to failure.
(c) the expected life of a rotating-beam specimen under a completely reversed stress of 375 MPa
(d) If the beam has a circular cross-section with a diameter of 250mm and manufactured by hot -
rolling process, estimate the endurance limit with 99% reliability. If the beam is polished, how
would that affect the results?

Q3) The shaft shown in the sketch a rotates at high speed while the imposed loads remain static.
The shaft is machined from ground, high-carbon steel (AISI 1080). If the loading is sufficiently
large to produce a fatigue failure after 1 million cycles, where would the failure most likely occur?
Show all necessary computations and reasoning.
Q4) A 20-mm-diameter shaft transmits a variable torque of 500 ± 400 N-m. The frequency of the
torque variation is 0.1 s-1. The shaft is made of high-carbon steel AISI 1080. (a) For ns=1, find the
number of cycles till failure. (b) How large the shaft diameter has to be for an infinite life in service.

Q5) The flat bar shown below is made of cold-drawn, high-carbon steel (AISI 1080). The cyclic,
nonzero, mean axial load varies from a minimum of 2 kN to a maximum of 10 kN. Using the
Goodman, Soderberg, and Gerber failure theory, determine the safety factors for the hole, the fillet,
and the groove. Also, indicate where the flat bar will first fail. Ans. (From Goodman nshole = 2.97,
nsfillet = 3.25 , , nsgroove = 3.12).

Q6) Solve the previous question, if in addition to the axial load an alternating bending moment is
applied with a maximum of 200 N.m and a minimum of 100 N.m.
Appendix

Surface finish factor, kf :


Size factor, ks :
Reliability factor, kr :

Temperature factor, kt:

Stress concentration factor, ko:


Gerber Line:

Goodman line:

Soderberg line:
Amplitude and mean stresses for compound loading:

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