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    A Wöhler diagram is a graph that relates the alternating stress component of a fatigue cycle to the number of cycles before failure at a given probability. It is constructed by subjecting specimens to repeated stress cycles and recording the number of cycles until failure. The average number of cycles to failure at different stress levels are then plotted, resulting in a curve known as the Wöhler curve. This curve shows the probability of failure over a given number of cycles for a particular alternating stress.

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    A Wöhler diagram is a graph that relates the alternating stress component of a fatigue cycle to the number of cycles before failure at a given probability. It is constructed by subjecting specimens to repeated stress cycles and recording the number of cycles until failure. The average number of cycles to failure at different stress levels are then plotted, resulting in a curve known as the Wöhler curve. This curve shows the probability of failure over a given number of cycles for a particular alternating stress.

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    A Wöhler diagram is a graph that relates the alternating stress component of a fatigue cycle to the number of cycles before failure at a given probability. It is constructed by subjecting specimens to repeated stress cycles and recording the number of cycles until failure. The average number of cycles to failure at different stress levels are then plotted, resulting in a curve known as the Wöhler curve. This curve shows the probability of failure over a given number of cycles for a particular alternating stress.

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    5/13/2019 Wöhler diagram - Wikipedia

    Wöhler diagram
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    A Wöhler Diagram is a graph on a statistical basis that relates the alternating component of a fatigue cycle to the
    number of cycles that a specimen bears before breaking at a predetermined probability .

    Index
    Construction of the Wöhler diagram
    Parameters obtainable from a Wöhler curve
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    Construction of the Wöhler


    diagram
    The diagram (or curve) of Wöhler takes its name from its
    creator August Wöhler , who was among the first scholars
    to deal profitably with the study of fatigue. It was the first
    Typical Wöhler diagram on a logarithmic scale
    formal tool available to designers for the fatigue sizing of
    the components and is still of fundamental importance.
    Its construction takes place in this way: a certain stress cycle with a specific amplitude is reconstructed in the
    laboratory and applied to a large number of specimens, noting the number of cycles that they bear before breaking.
    Fatally they, although subjected to the same load, will not all break after the same number of cycles, but there will be a
    dispersionof the results. Experience shows that this dispersion occurs according to a normal distribution .

    The same series of experiments is then repeated at different values of the alternating sigma (alternating component of
    the stress cycle), and the average value of the number of cycles before failure is noted for each distribution .

    The curve that connects all the average values to each is the Wöhler curve at 50% probability of breakage. This
    means that with regard to the tested specimens, there is a 50% probability that they, subjected to an amplitude load
    cycle , break before reaching the number of cycles bounded by the Wöhler curve; this simply derives from the
    properties of the normal distribution. Of course, it is possible to construct curves at 20%, at 10% or at any probability,
    joining instead of the points of the average values those that correspond to this probability value.

    Given the high number of cycles that one achieves, and given that in this way the diagram can be simplified
    considerably from a mathematical point of view, in most cases the Wöhler curves are presented with the axes in
    logarithmic scale.

    Parameters obtainable from a Wöhler curve


    The Wöhler curve does not intersect the ordinate axis (ie for N = 1/2, on a logarithmic scale) in correspondence with
    half the static breaking load of the material, we will have an infinite value of the fatigue strength that is fatal to the
    piece. Subsequently it remains constant for a certain stretch, and then decreases rather quickly, generally between

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    is . For many ferrous alloys (thus


    excluding aluminum, copper, magnesium), it then
    presents a sort of horizontal asymptote which tends to a
    value of the effort called the fatigue limit : it represents
    the value of the below which, even for an ideally infinite
    number of cycles, the material will not break due to
    fatigue. It is customary to divide the Wöhler diagram into
    two regions, called LCF (Low-Cycle Fatigue, low cycle
    fatigue) and HCF (High-Cycle Fatigue, high cycle fatigue),
    the first for higher sigma values to the yield strength of
    the material, where there are macroscopic plasticization
    and consequently the life of the material is very limited;
    the second for lower sigma values, where cyclic
    plasticisations exist only at the microscopic level.

    Construction of a Wohler curve


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