Most cracks in the structure occur under mixed mode loading and those fatigue crack propagation behavior depends on the stress ratio. Hence. it is necessary to study the fatigue behavior under mixed-mode loading as the stress ratio changes. In this pa...
Most cracks in the structure occur under mixed mode loading and those fatigue crack propagation behavior depends on the stress ratio. Hence. it is necessary to study the fatigue behavior under mixed-mode loading as the stress ratio changes. In this paper, the fatigue crack behavior was respectively investigated at stress ratio 0.33, 0.50 and we changed the loading application angle into 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° to apply various loading mode. These experimental results were evaluated by the shape of fatigue fracture surface using 2D or 3D images obtained from the C-scan method. As stress ratio and mode mixity change, the change of effective stress intensity factor and crack closure have effect on the fatigue behavior of cracks. The variation of fatigue crack behavior caused by the change of stress ratio and loading application angle could be explained by using the shape of fatigue fracture surface.