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Fatigue testing is a specialised form of mechanical testing that is performed by applying cyclic loading to a coupon or structure. These tests are used either to generate fatigue life and crack growth data, identify critical locations or demonstrate the safety of a structure that may be susceptible to fatigue.
Stress testing is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing, used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Reasons can include: to determine breaking points or safe usage limits
The stress intensity factor at the crack tip of a compact tension specimen is [4] = [() / / + / / + /] where is the applied load, is the thickness of the specimen, is the crack length, and is the effective width of the specimen being the distance between the centreline of the holes and the backface of the coupon.
The four-point flexural test provides values for the modulus of elasticity in bending, flexural stress, flexural strain and the flexural stress-strain response of the material. This test is very similar to the three-point bending flexural test. The major difference being that with the addition of a fourth bearing the portion of the beam between ...
Fatigue testing can be used for components such as a coupon or a full-scale test article to determine: the rate of crack growth and fatigue life of components such as a coupon or a full-scale test article. location of critical regions; degree of fail-safety when part of the structure fails
Accelerated life testing is the process of testing a product by subjecting it to conditions (stress, strain, temperatures, voltage, vibration rate, pressure etc.) in excess of its normal service parameters in an effort to uncover faults and potential modes of failure in a short amount of time.
Impact testing Izod test; Charpy test; Fracture toughness testing Linear-elastic (K Ic) K–R curve; Elastic plastic (J Ic, CTOD) Creep Testing, for the mechanical behaviour of materials at high temperatures (relative to their melting point) Fatigue Testing, for the behaviour of materials under cyclic loading Load-controlled smooth specimen tests
Use of the vibration-fatigue methods is well-suited, as structural analysis is studied in the frequency-domain. Common practice in the automotive industry is the use of accelerated vibration tests. During the test, a part or a product is exposed to vibration, that are in correlation with those expected during the service-life of the product. To ...