Fretting Fatigue in Mechanical Joints: A Literature Review

Abstract

Fretting fatigue is a fatigue damage process that occurs when two surfaces in contact with each other are subjected to relative micro-slip, causing a reduced fatigue life with respect to the plain fatigue case. Fretting has now been studied deeply for over 50 years, but still no univocal design approach has been universally accepted. This review presents a literature study that involves the three main types of mechanical joint affected by fretting fatigue (press-fitted shaft hub joints, dovetail joints, and bolted joints) aiming at giving insight into the progress made in terms of design guidelines for engineers.

Experimental study and fretting fatigue life prediction in dovetail assembly considering stress–temperature nonlinear coupling effect

“…Similarly, assuming N ¼ 0, the initial damage of the material D 0 ¼ 0, and N ¼ N R , the corresponding critical damage is assumed to be D f ¼ 1, portending the material will fracture for the loss of bearing capacity. Thus, by integrating both sides of Equation ( 9), the hightemperature fretting fatigue life prediction model is further acquired, as exhibited in Equation (10).…”

“…Stress and high-temperature interact with each other, jointly limiting the actual service life of dovetail assembly. 10 The fretting fatigue failure mechanism has been unclear under the coexistence of stress and high temperature, making the fretting fatigue life difficult to predict. Therefore, it is particularly important to study the fretting fatigue behavior of dovetail assembly under the coexistence of stress and high temperature to create a fretting fatigue life prediction model considering the coupling effect of stress and high temperature.…”

Wybrane Metody Wyznaczania Nośności Połączeń Wtłaczanych

“…W pracy autorstwa Croccolo D., De Agostinis M., Fini S. i in. [7] stwierdzono, e zu ycie cierne (fretting) maleje wraz ze wzrostem nacisku kontaktowego, poniewa amplituda po lizgu maleje, a zatem fretting nie wyst puje. Jak wskazuje przegl d cytowanej literatury poł czenia wciskowe s ci gle przedmiotem zainteresowania konstruktorów, a tematyka zwi zana z doskonaleniem metod obliczeniowych i wszechstronn analiz ich no no ci jest nadal aktualna [19,17].…”

A comparative study of several life prediction models based on the critical plane approach for fretting fatigue crack initiation

“…Fretting behavior is often strongly correlated with the surface roughness of the contacting surfaces, coefficient of friction, material hardness, applied bulk cyclic stress, normal load, surface traction or relative slip, etc. 11 Fretting damage can be categorized as catastrophic structural failure issues caused by crack initiation and propagation (also known as fretting fatigue), material removal caused by wear at the contact interface (also known as fretting wear), or a combination of both. 12,13 Fretting wear frequently results in material removal and the weakening or disappearance of the fastening fit, whereas fretting fatigue frequently results in reduced service life or fatigue strength of structural components.…”