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Effects of Shot Peening on Fretting Fatigue Crack Initiation Behavior
Xin Liu1, Jinxiang Liu2, Zhengxing Zuo3
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. LX_9002@163.com.
Abstract:
This study analyzes the effects of shot peening on the crack initiation behavior under fretting loading by using a numerical method. The residual stress relaxation and the contact stress evolution are both considered. The crack initiation life is predicted by the critical plane Smith⁻Watson⁻Topper (SWT) model. Considering that the fretting contact region has a high stress gradient along the depth direction, the process volume approach is adopted to calculate the SWT parameters. The results show that the remaining residual stress after relaxation strongly affects crack initiation life. The remaining residual stress decreases with the increase of fatigue loading, and the effect of shot peening on the improvement of crack initiation life is more obvious under smaller fatigue loading. Furthermore, under smaller fatigue loading, the crack initiation life of specimens with high shot peening intensity is longer than that of specimens with low shot peening intensity. However, the opposite phenomenon appears when the fatigue loading is large enough.
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