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The Effect of Wear on Fatigue Characteristics

Wear is a phenomena which shows mechanical failure in which there is loss

of material on the surface. It is also closely related to plastic deformation
phenomena. In tribology terms, wear is classified into surface-related phenomena
where the main cause of this is due to friction. This phenomena happens in almost
every kind of material applications.
On top of that, there is also failure named fatigue. It is a form of failure due
to fluctuated or dynamic stress caused by repeated loading. The stress itself can be
axial, torsional, and flexural. Fatigue is usually catastrophic. In other words, the
indication of failure cannot be noticed clearly whereas the initial cracks are difficult
to detect.
Both of failure explained above, it is agreed by some studies that they have
a correlation to each other. Strictly speaking, wear phenomena has certain effect
regarding to fatigue characteristic of materials.
For example in fretting phenomena, a small amplitude oscillatory
displacement between contacted surfaces, the damage that may happen is wear,
fatigue, but it has high tendency for both of them to happen simultaneously.
Vingsbo and Soderberg studied qualitative approach in regards to how
fretting damage depends on slip amplitude. The result indicates that the increase in
slip regime with increasing slip amplitude will reduce fatigue damage significantly
even though wear continues to increase. Unfortunately, these particular phenomena
are still not clearly explained yet.
Another study states that if combined low frequency torque is said to be the
major cycle, meanwhile axial load and higher frequency rotating ending moment is
said to be the minor cycle, it is predicted that during fluctuating torque, major cycles
load to gross slip whereas minor cycles lead to partial slip. This shows that the effect

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of gross slip wear is to increase the contact area, therefore it reduces the contact
pressure and reduce the predicted fretting fatigue damage.
However, it should be noted that the experiment applied some assumption
that is necessary to simplify the effect. It is assumed that wear coefficient is to be
constant and no additional surface damage effects are incorporated other than
material removal.
As a conclusion, effect of wear can cause markedly different failure
characteristics, particularly in terms of the failure position, as above example
already explained. On the word of above experiment, the fretting wear is predicted
to reduce fretting fatigue damage, which is considered as an increase in materials
usage life.

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Source
Ding, J., & Leen, S. (2008). Finite element simulation of fretting wear-fatigue
interaction in spline couplings. Tribology, 2(1). Retrieved February 28, 2015.
Madge, J. (2008). Numerical Modelling of the Effect of Fretting Wear on Fretting
Fatigue. Retrieved February 28, 2015.

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