Acoustic Emission Diagnostics of the Load-Bearing Capacity of Titanium Specimens during Fatigue Tests
摘要
The acoustic emission (AE) technique developed at the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences to monitor the kinetics of micro-, meso-, and macrodamage in structural elements and to estimate their load-bearing capacity under a mechanical action is applied to VT5-1 titanium alloy specimens subjected to fatigue tests at symmetric bending loading cycles, a frequency of 10 Hz, and an amplitude of 6 mm. The influence of the bilateral edge notch depth in the maximum-stress zone (along the clamped end) on the load-bearing capacity of a specimen is determined. At a notch depth of 0, 1, and 3 mm, the number of cycles to failure is 56 642, 52 261, and 30 884, respectively. The proposed technique is shown to reliably reflect the kinetics of micro-, meso-, and macrodamage and the decrease in the load-bearing capacity of the specimens, and their fatigue life correlates with the total number of accumulated locational AE pulses.