Investigation of Fatigue Crack Growth in TA2 Cruciform Specimen with an Inclined Crack, Considering Stress Ratio and Biaxial Load Ratio

Abstract

The biaxial fatigue crack growth behavior of commercial pure titanium TA2 of cruciform specimens with different crack inclination angles (β = 90°, 60°, 45°) under various biaxial load ratios (λ = 0, 0.5, 1) and different stress ratios (R = 0, 0.1, 0.3) is studied by an IPBF-5000 biaxial testing machine. The test results prove that the maximum tangential stress criterion is suitable for predicting the initiation angle of uniaxial and biaxial mixed-mode I–II fatigue cracks. The fatigue crack growth rate of a cruciform specimen with mode I and mixed-mode I–II cracks decreases with the increase of biaxial load ratio and increases with the stress ratio. The Walker model and Kujawski model have better compression effects on fatigue crack growth data than the Paris model.

Keywords

• commercial pure titanium TA2
• biaxial fatigue crack growth
• stress ratio
• biaxial load ratio
• crack inclination angle