SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1986
STP29057S

Effect of Load Transfer on Fatigue of Mechanically Fastened Metallic Joints

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Mechanically fastened joints are highly susceptible to fatigue cracking especially when varying loads are applied. The fatigue cracking is influenced by load transfer through fasteners.

Tests were conducted using zero, low, medium, and high load transfer specimens of 7475-T7351 aluminum. The fatigue crack initiation and growth and the final fracture behaviors were investigated. The fatigue crack initiation life, Ni, and the total fatigue life, Nf, are reduced by increasing stress range, Δσ, and load transfer level, L. The relationship is defined by the equations of the form logN=CBΔσDLH where C, B, D, and H are constants. The fatigue crack growth rate, da/dN, is related to the stress intensity factor range, ΔK, by the equation dadN=(2.36×107)·(ΔK)2.89mm×cycle The crack initiation portion of the total fatigue life, Ni/Nf, is greater with lower stress range, Δσ, and longer total fatigue life, , is greater with lower stress range, Δσ, and longer total fatigue life, Nf, and it is reduced by load transfer.

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Lee, EU
Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA
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Developed by Committee: E08
Pages: 95–117
DOI: 10.1520/STP29057S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4989-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0927-8