Effect of Anisotropy and Off-Axis Loading on Fatigue Property of 1050 Wheel Steel

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2016.00366

Acta Metall Sin

2017, Vol. 53

Issue (3): 307-315 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2016.00366

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Effect of Anisotropy and Off-Axis Loading on Fatigue Property of 1050 Wheel Steel

Qingsong ZHANG¹,Zhenyu ZHU¹,Jiewei GAO¹,Guangze DAI¹(

),Lei XU²,Jian FENG¹

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu 610039, China

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Qingsong ZHANG,Zhenyu ZHU,Jiewei GAO,Guangze DAI,Lei XU,Jian FENG. Effect of Anisotropy and Off-Axis Loading on Fatigue Property of 1050 Wheel Steel. Acta Metall Sin, 2017, 53(3): 307-315.

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Wheel is one of the key components of a train to transmit power and affect the security operation. With the rapidly development of high-speed railway, rolling contact fatigue of railway wheels has become an important issue with respect to failure. With the increasing of train speeds and axle loads, the wheel-rail dynamic stress and contact stress were increased, resulting in wheel out of round with off-axis wear and potential for derailment. SAE 1050 steel as a typical wheel steel is widely used in high-speed wheel and wagon wheel. Consequently, the wheel rolling contact fatigue performance under service process and the fatigue performance of wheel steel materials have been studied. However, there are less relevant results about the anisotropy of rolling and off-axis loading of wheel steel materials. To investigate the effect of anisotropy and off-axis loading on fatigue property of 1050 wheel steel, uniaxial fatigue tests were conducted at the conditions of 120 Hz and stress ratio R=0.1, and off-axis fatigue tests were conducted at the conditions of 55 Hz and R=0.1 at room temperature in air. All fatigue specimens were cut from bar round with the angles (0°, 30° and 45°) to rolling direction. The fatigue limit of specimens under two kinds of special loading conditions was obtained. Fracture surface of the specimen was observed by SEM. The finite element (FEM) analysis software (Ansys 14.0) was used to analyze static mechanics of specimens under three different off-axis loading angles (0°, 30° and 45°). The results showed that the fatigue limit decreased with increasing angle to rolling direction and the percentage of decline was 9%. The fatigue limit decreased with increasing off-axis loading angle and the percentage of decline was 85%. The shear stress and Von Mises stress were larger and increased with increasing off-axis loading angle when the specimen was subjected to off-axis loading.

Key words: 1050 steel anisotropy off-axis loading finite element fatigue limit

Received: 15 August 2016

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Fig.1 Geometry of fatigue specimen (unit: mm)

Fig.2 Clamping method of off-axis fatigue test (a) 30° (b) 45°

Fig.3 Microstructures of 1050 steel at the angle with rolling direction of 0° (a), 30° (b) and 45° (c)

Table 1 Tensile properties of 1050 steel at different angles with rolling direction

Fig.4 Relationship between fatigue limit and off-axis loading angle

Fig.5 Schematic of static loading (F—load)

Fig.6 Finite element model of static analysis

Fig.7 Stress nephograms of static mechanic analysis under uniaxial loading
(a, b), 30° (c, d) and 45° (e, f) off-axis loading (unit: MPa)
(a, c, e) shear stress nephogram
(b, d, f) von Mises stress nephogram

Fig.8 Fracture morphologies of 0° specimen with uniaxial loading
(a) fracture surface
(b) fracture zone
(c) crack initiation site
(d) propagation zone

Fig.9 Fracture morphologies of 30° specimen with uniaxial loading
(a) fracture surface
(b) crack initiation site
(c) propagation zone

Fig.10 Fracture morphologies of 45° specimen with uniaxial loading
(a) fracture surface
(b) crack initiation site
(c) propagation zone

Fig.11 Fracture morphologies of 0° specimen with 30° off-axis loading
(a) fracture surface
(b) crack initiation site

Fig.12 Fracture morphologies of 0° specimen with 45° off-axis loading(a) fracture surface(b) crack initiation site(c) propagation zone

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