Vibration fatigue

About: Vibration fatigue is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3460 publications have been published within this topic receiving 46297 citations.

Fatigue Design of Sign Support Structures for Loading Caused by Natural Wind Loads

Abstract: A unified design method for fatigue loading caused by natural wind for highway overhead sign support structures is needed. Whereas the fatigue design provisions given in the 2001 AASHTO Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals provide fatigue design criteria for natural wind, these provisions are applicable only within certain limitations. A comprehensive approach was developed for fatigue design for the treatment of sign support structures, considering the dynamic properties of the structures such as the natural frequency and damping characteristics. The approach is applicable for structures in which the dynamic response can be approximated by a single degree-of-freedom system. Typical examples include cantilever- and bridge-type overhead sign support structures. The proposed fatigue design approach incorporates these parameters in a simplified, systematic procedure that can be readily used by the engineer. The analytical work performed involved pr...

A theoretical study of residual stress effects on fatigue life prediction

Abstract: Recently, the trend has been toward the use of the full subsurface stress field in rolling element bearing fatigue life prediction (stress field-based life models). By using the stress field-based bearing life models, more accurate assessments of such things as fitting practice and thermal treatments on the bearing performance are achieved. However, one aspect missing in most models has been the consideration of the changing residual stress during operation of the bearing. This study was conducted to investigate the time dependent residual stress on contact fatigue life predictions. This study concluded that the changes in residual stress during operation were most likely a fatigue reaction of the material to the pre-fatigue residual stress and cyclic contact stress fields. The materials fatigue response changes the instantaneous values of the material constants in most stress field-based life equations, thus making them in-calculable. As such, the pre-fatigue residual stress field should be used in the s...

Fatigue Life Reduction in Mixed Lubricated Elliptical Contacts

Abstract: Highly loaded ball and rolling element bearings are often required to operate in the mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication regime in which surface asperity contact occurs simultaneously during the lubrication process. Predicting performance of components operating in this regime is important as the high asperity contact pressures can significantly reduce the fatigue life of the interacting components. Rolling contact fatigue is one of the most dominant causes of failure of components operating in mixed lubrication regime. Contact fatigue begins with the initiation of microscopic fatigue cracks in the rolling contact surfaces or within the sub-surface regions due to cyclic shear stresses. Investigation of mixed lubrication effects on performance of machine components is of significant importance in order to understand and enhance their load carrying capacity. This article investigates the effects of mixed lubrication and surface roughness on machine components performance. Results from a mixed lubrication model are utilized to investigate the effects of different operating conditions on fatigue life of the components. Simple rough surfaces consisting of single hemispherical bump as well as complex rough surfaces consisting of a numerically generated 3D rough surface operating under mixed lubrication conditions are studied and results presented. The stress-based Ioannides and Harris model incorporating the fatigue limit is used to evaluate the fatigue life variation. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique is used to significantly reduce the time required for the computation of internal stresses.

Novel method for research on exposure to nonlinear vibration transferred by suspension of vehicle

Abstract: The paper presents novel method for research on exposure to nonlinear vibration of passenger car suspension as nonlinear dynamical system. Also paper provides a discussion on the results of studies addressing the impact exerted by damping properties of shock absorber on the vibrations being generated. The research was conducted on the car forced to vibration by the exciter machine with changeable frequency. The paper addresses results of analysis of application of one of the time-frequency representation techniques to the identification of structure of vibration. The obtained representation of the vibration allows determining time function of separate frequency bands, which represents the isolated vibration dynamics phenomena. Considering the variability of the time and frequency distribution of the vibration even in selected analysed bands, the time function was developed as exposure to vibration estimator. The recommended method makes use of function of exposure to vibration. The advantage of these method is possibilities of precise analysis of chosen frequency bands. The investigations conducted confirm considerable susceptibility to changes in the technical condition of shock absorber with regard to the assessment of human exposure to vibrations.