Contribution of Kinematical and Thermal Full-field Measurements for Mechanical Properties Identification: Application to High Cycle Fatigue of Steels
Résumé
The purpose of this work is to extend the use of unconventional tests and full field measurements (kinematical and thermal) to the identification of the effect of a wide plastic pre-strain range on the high cycle fatigue properties of a dual-phase steel. An unconventional specimen is designed. The geometry of this specimen permits a constant gradient of pre-strain to be obtained after a monotonic tensile test. Then, a self-heating test under cyclic loading is carried out on the pre-strained specimen. During this cyclic test, the thermal field is measured using an infrared camera. Finally, a suitable numerical strategy is proposed to identify a given thermal source model taking into account the influence of plastic pre-strain. The results show that, with the unconventional test and the procedure developed in this work, the influence of a plastic pre-strain range on fatigue properties can be identified by using only one specimen when, for a classical fatigue campaign, a great number of specimens is required.