Isothermal and Thermomechanical Fatigue of Cross-Ply SCS-6/TIMETAL®21S

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1994

Abstract

The response of a [0/90]2S, SCS-6/TIMETAL®21S metal matrix composite under isothermal and thermo mechanical fatigue (TMF) environments was investigated. Four sets of tests were conducted involving in-phase and out-of-phase TMF from 150° to 650°C along with isothermal fatigue at both 150°C and 650°C. Experimental results indicated in-phase loading produced shorter fatigue lives than those under out-of-phase loading at high applied stress levels. Conversely, out-of-phase loading produced shorter fatigue lives at lower stress levels. Isothermal fatigue lives at 650°C were longer than those under in-phase conditions by approximately the same factor for all applied maximum stresses. 150°C isothermal loading conditions produced fatigue lives greater than those obtained in the other three cases. Fracture surface examination to determine the dominant failure mechanisms showed that the 150°C and 650°C isothermal fatigue and the out-of-phase TMF all exhibited evidence of matrix cracking, the worst case being the out-of-phase TMF. There was no indication of matrix cracking for the in-phase TMF tests indicating fiber dominant fatigue failure. Examination of strain history and modulus history as well as observations of the very different trends in the fatigue-life curves suggest that different failure mechanisms dominate the out-of-phase TMF behavior in contrast to in-phase and isothermal fatigue behavior. Analysis, using a linear life fraction model, further suggests that the fatigue lives under the four conditions examined here are controlled by these separate mechanisms.

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This is an Open Access article published by De Gruyter and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

DOI

10.1515/SECM.1994.3.3.177

Source Publication

Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

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