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Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSINET), Journal of Applied Sciences, 3(9), p. 438-448

DOI: 10.3923/jas.2009.438.448

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Experimental Study of Crack Growth Behavior and Fatigue Life of Spot Weld Tensile-Shear Specimens

Journal article published in 2009 by M. Shariati ORCID, M. J. Maghrebi
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Abstract

In this study, the experimental behaviors of the fatigue crack growth are studied and the fatigue lives of tensile-shear (TS) specimens are determined. To achieve this, many TS specimens are prepared by the welding mild steel sheets of 1 and 1.5 mm thickness and then tested under constant amplitude loading using a servo-hydraulic fatigue testing machine (INSTRON 8802). The fatigue crack growth and the crack length are measured simultaneously by an optical microscope with 100X magnification. The experimental results indicate that the fatigue life of specimens decreases with any increase in load level. Also the crack initiation and propagation firstly occurs in plate with less thickness. According to the experimental observations when a high level loading is applied to the spot weld joints, the nugget suddenly pull-out and cannot withstand the fatigue loading.