Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Horstemeyer, Mark F.

Committee Member

Jordon, J. Brian

Committee Member

Bouvard, Jean-Luc

Committee Member

Hammi, Youssef

Date of Degree

12-10-2010

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

In this work, fatigue experiments and observations are used to experimentally and computationally quantify fatigue structure-property relationships and then capture these effects through a microstructure-based MultiStage Fatigue (MSF) model for a thermoplastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene copolymer. Completely reversed fatigue experiments were conducted over a range of strain amplitudes at two frequencies (1 Hz and 10 Hz). Scanning electron microscopy of fatigue fracture surfaces was used to quantify the microstructural notch root or initiating particle size for structure-property relations. Results were then processed in an MSF model sensitive to microstructural effects to capture the fatigue lifetimes for the thermoplastic ABS copolymer.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17251

Comments

Characterization||Polymer||ABS||Fatigue||MSF Model

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