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Vaibhav Pandey et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 2 (2016) 3288–3295 Author name / Struc ural Integrity Procedia 00 (2016) 000–000

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Fig. 5. Coffin-Manson plots of AA7075 in un-USSPed and USSPed conditions.

Effect of USSP duration on fatigue life at constant strain amplitude is shown in Fig. 6. In the un-USSPed condition the material exhibited initial softening, followed by mild hardening till failure while in the case of USSPed samples there was continuous hardening from first cycle to failure. The rate of cyclic hardening decreased with number of cycles in all the USSPed conditions. LCF life for different USSPed conditions at total strain amplitude of Δεt/2= ±0.4% is shown in Fig. 7. There was little influence of USSP for 30 seconds on fatigue. However, increment in fatigue life of 54% was observed for the sample USSPed for 180 seconds followed by increment of 42% in that for 60 seconds. On the other hand, decrement in life was observed for the specimen USSPed for longer duration of 300 seconds as compared to the un-USSPed samples. Increase in fatigue life of the USSPed specimen was due to the combined effect of nanocrystallised surface layer and compressive residual stresses induced from USSP treatment. Nanocrystallized surface layer delayed the process of fatigue crack initiation whereas the subsurface compressive residual stresses slowed down the rate of crack propagation. Decrement in fatigue life of the sample USSPed for long duration of 300 seconds may be due to increase in surface roughness and formation of microcracks because of excessive work hardening from the longer USSP treatment. The decrease in fatigue life of the specimen USSPed for 30 seconds may be attributed relatively to more detrimental effect of increased surface roughness in comparison of the beneficial effect resulting from nanostructure and residual stresses.

Fig. 6. Variation of cyclic stress response of the AA7075 in different USSP conditions at total strain amplitude of Δε t /2= ±0.4%.