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Fatigue Analysis and Defect Size Evaluation of Filled NBR including Temperature Influence
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SYSNO ASEP 0558759 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Fatigue Analysis and Defect Size Evaluation of Filled NBR including Temperature Influence Author(s) Schieppati, J. (AT)
Schrittesser, B. (AT)
Tagliabue, S. (IT)
Andena, L. (IT)
Holzner, A. (AT)
Poduška, Jan (UFM-A) ORCID
Pinter, G. (AT)Number of authors 7 Article number 3745 Source Title Materials. - : MDPI
Roč. 15, č. 11 (2022)Number of pages 23 s. Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords vulcanized natural-rubber ; lifetime prediction ; crack-growth ; probability-distribution ; stress amplitude ; behavior ; initiation ; propagation ; dependence ; failure ; fatigue ; fracture mechanics ; filled rubber ; X-ray microtomography ; defect size ; temperature ; J-integral Subject RIV JG - Metallurgy OECD category Materials engineering Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UFM-A - RVO:68081723 UT WOS 000808816900001 EID SCOPUS 85131565448 DOI 10.3390/ma15113745 Annotation The fatigue behavior of a filled non-crystallizing elastomer was investigated on axisymmetric dumbbell specimens. By plotting relevant Wohler curves, a power law behavior was found. In addition, temperature increases due to heat build-up were monitored. In order to distinguish between initiation and crack growth regimes, hysteresis curves, secant and dynamic moduli, dissipated and stored energies, and normalized minimum and maximum forces were analyzed. Even though indications related to material damaging were observed, a clear trend to recognize the initiation was not evident. Further details were revealed by considering a fracture mechanics. The analysis of the fracture surfaces evidenced the presence of three regions, associated to initiation, fatigue striation, and catastrophic failure. Additional fatigue tests were performed with samples in which a radial notch was introduced. This resulted in a reduction in lifetime by four orders of magnitude, nevertheless, the fracture surfaces revealed similar failure mechanisms. A fracture mechanics approach, which considered the effect of temperature, was adopted to calculate the critical defect size for fatigue, which was found to be approximately 9 mu m. This value was then compared with the particle size distribution obtained through X-ray microcomputed tomography (mu-CT) of undamaged samples and it was found that the majority of the initial defects were indeed smaller than the calculated one. Finally, the evaluation of J-integral for both unnotched and notched dumbbells enabled the assessment of a geometry-independent correlation with fatigue life. Workplace Institute of Physics of Materials Contact Yvonna Šrámková, sramkova@ipm.cz, Tel.: 532 290 485 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/11/3745
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