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Przemysław Strzelecki1, Adam Mazurkiewicz1, Janusz Musiał1
1Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Science and Technology, Kaliskiego 7 Street, 85-789 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Abstract:
This paper presents the results of the static tensile and fatigue life tests under rotating bending of round 1.4301 (AISI 304) steel samples. The fatigue tests were carried out on smooth and notched samples with three different rounding angles with a shape factor of 1.4, 2 and 2.6. A fatigue life was determined for samples with different shape factors subject to identical loads. The results showed that the scatter of fatigue test results decreases with an increase in shape factor. To evaluate the cracking properties (cracking mode and mechanism), microstructure and fractographic tests of the fractured samples were carried out.
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