TY - THES A1 - Abebe, Beka Hailu T1 - Fatigue Life Assessment of Diesel Engine Pump Part N2 - The intention of this thesis is first, to determine material constants of ductile cast irons (EN-GJS-400-15,EN-GJS-500-7, EN-GJS-600-3) for estimating fatigue damage. These constants are obtained from experimental results. These results are stress versus strain tests, strain versus crack initiation life tests,and consequently, Smith, Watson and Topper damage parameter, PSWT can be calculated. Using data fitting, the constants can be estimated, thus Uniform Material Law for ductile cast irons is fulfilled. Endurance limit stress is obtained based on research report termed Synthetic Wöhler Lines(SWL).It is found out that the endurance limit stress is a function of yield limit stress. Endurance life cycle is set as three millions for the three materials. Secondly, fatigue life assessment is done for diesel engine pump part made of the three ductile cast irons. Finite element calculation is done to get elastic stress concentration factor, Kt, and plastic notch factor Kp. Neuber ´s rule is used to determine local stress at notch subjected to constant amplitude load test and variable amplitude loading. The constant amplitude loading is conducted at a stress ratio of R=0 on the pump part. The test results show that fatigue life assessment based on the material constants is accurate. On the basis of the accuracy of constant amplitude test results, it is possible to determine for fatigue life for variable amplitude loading which is the real loading on the pump part. The variable amplitude loading is normally standardized for computational efficiency. This standardized loading is termed as CORAL (COmmon RAil Loading) sequence. CORAL is used to calculate fatigue life of pump part and is inputted to a Fatigue Life Evaluation computer program. This program uses rain flow cycle counting method. It can be concluded that the material constants for ductile cast irons fit well which is proved by experimental tests by constant amplitude loading on pump part. Then life prediction can be done for the typical pump loading, standardized variable amplitude loading known as CORAL KW - Materialermüdung KW - Fatigue KW - CORAL KW - ductile cast iron KW - diesel engine pump part Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20081027-14331 ER - TY - THES A1 - Korkmaz, Sinan T1 - Extension of the Uniform Material Law for High Strength Steels N2 - Uniform Material Law (UML) is a handy and user-friendly method since only the tensile strength data of the material is needed for estimation of the strain-life curve, in contrast to other methods, such as four-point correlation method, universal slopes method, Mitchell's method, modified universal slopes method, which also require the data of the reduction in area or the fracture ductility of the material. On the other hand, the error level of UML estimations can be still decreased by refining the method. The objective of this thesis is putting forward a more refined method by extending conventional UML. Furthermore, a life prediction computation is carried out with the proposed extended UML and the results are compared to that of the conventional method. The results have proven that the maximum error is dropped down to 0.59% from 38% with the proposed extended UML method. KW - Materialermüdung KW - UML KW - Werkstoffermüdung KW - hochfester Stahl KW - Lebensdauervorhersage KW - material fatigue KW - uniform material law KW - UML KW - high strength steel KW - fatigue life prediction Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20090602-14718 ER -