Experimental verification of fatigue loading nonproportionality model

The paper deals with the experimental verification of a model of the fatigue loading nonproportionality. The assumption of the proposed model is that the loading nonproportionality degree depends on: (a) modules of vectors of rotating stresses, (b) angular distances of these stress vectors measured in relation to the critical plane. The performed experiment involved modeling of the nonproportional fatigue loading through programmed changes of principal axes positions. Different positions of the principal axes were obtained by using two loading blocks: fully reversed torsion and complex loading, that is to say, tension-compression and torsion. During the tests, the influence of the range of the orientation angle of principle axes on fatigue life was examined. The obtained results allowed one to confirm the thesis that the nonproportionality degree depends also on the angular distance in which the stress vector acts in relation to the critical plane.