Messung und Modellierung der Lebensdauer der Legierung AlCuMg2 unter zweistufiger Schwingbeanspruchung

The aim of this work is to achieve information about the development of fatigue failure in the aluminium alloy 2024. The attention was focused on short fatigue cracks under cyclic loading and the occurring load sequence effects on lifetime under two-level cyclic loading. Following the experiments, a revision of three different microstructural crack growth models, which were found in the literature, was made. Based on the data of constant-level cyclic loading, predictions of two-level cyclic loading behaviour were made and compared with the experimentally measured crack propagation rates and reached lifetimes.