Manufacturing process Lab.

Interim Project

Fatigue Test

Names:
Introduction:
A fatigue test is used to assess if a material can survive cyclic fatigue loading. A
material is chosen by design to meet or exceed the service loads expected in
fatigue testing applications. Repeated loading and unloading in tension,
compression, bending, torsion, or combinations of these stresses are used in cyclic
fatigue tests. The most typical fatigue tests are tension – tension, compression –
compression, and tension into compression and reverse.

Our aim:
We aim in this project to make a simulation of the fatigue test by using a small
machine that can cause some changes to the material. The material is the wooden
stick of the kite. The purpose is to simulate the flight of a kite. In the flight of a kite
there is repeated bending force applied to the material. So fatigue test is important
for the determining the lifetime of a kite. So it won’t fracture in the flight.

Concept:
The concept of our machine is to apply vertical force that can act on the specimen
continuously
The machine contains of aluminum profile chassis and vertical force mechanism
The source of the force will be a servo motor, which will be managed by control
card (Arduino) to set the speed and time, in order to set the frequency
(Some features might be applied by using some a simple C++ code)
Calculations:
The computational steps for finding(N) fatigue of the material

• With using a light scale or from deflection calculation by ?? theorem, we

determine the net force acting on the rod,

• The rods moment of inertia is calculated (Ix)

• As it is a fluctuating moment 𝜎𝜎min=0 and 𝜎𝜎max comes with the maximum

bending deflection,

• 𝜎𝜎m=(𝜎𝜎max+ 𝜎𝜎min)/2 Find; 𝜎𝜎a= 𝜎𝜎max- 𝜎𝜎m

• Kt and Kf can be estimate for wood materials

 • 𝜎𝜎max= (Kf.Mmax.c)/ Ix 𝜎𝜎min=0

• 𝜏𝜏max=0 and 𝜏𝜏min=0 ( No torsional shear)

• Since this is not a fully recodly (𝜎𝜎m≠0)

• We use goodman diagram to find 𝜎𝜎rev

 𝜎𝜎rev= 𝜎𝜎a/(1- 𝜎𝜎m/Sut)

We got to logarithmic fatigue curve;

a=(f Sut)2/ Se b=-1/3log(f Sut/ Se)

N=( 𝜎𝜎rev/a)1/6 We found the fatigue cycle.