G. Nicoletto1, A. Saletti2
Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.8, No.2, pp. 131-148, 2012, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2012.008.131
Abstract Fatigue strengthening of fillets by deep rolling is finding increased application for example in engine crankshaft production for functional and economical reasons. A fatigue design method aimed at exploiting the residual stresses that develop at a notched part following the rolling process is proposed. It is based on the superposition of residual stresses obtained by elastic-plastic FE simulation of the rolling process and the cyclic elastic stresses within a Haigh diagram framework. The fatigue design method is assessed using the experimental evidence obtained by testing notched specimens made of 30NiCrMo12 steel subjected to different rolling More >