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Influence of Plasma-nitriding on Fatigue Life of High-strength Steels under Biaxial Loading
Major, Štěpán ; Kohout, Jan (referee) ; Růžička,, Milan (referee) ; Obrtlík, Karel (referee) ; Pokluda, Jaroslav (advisor)
This work deals with fatigue life and fractographycal analysis of plasma-nitrided and virgin specimen made of the low-alloy high-strength steel. Specimens were subjected to in-phase combined bending-torsion loading. The work is focused on three groups of problems. The first group of problems was associated with the fatigue life and its prediction. The objective was to examine a relationship between the presence of the nitrided layer and fatigue life. The application of surface layers has significantly improved the fatigue life in the high-cycle region. An extended comparison between classical and advanced multiaxial criteria was performed. Criterions proposed by Marin and Matake were found to be most precise. The second objective of this work was to examine a relationship between the loading ratio ( is the bending amplitude and is the torsion amplitude ) and the fracture surface topography in the highcycle fatigue. Properties of fracture surfaces were quantified by many roughness and fractal parameters. Many roughness parameters start to incrise rapidly above a critical value of the loading ratio zc = 0,5. The last part of this work deals with the fractographical analysis of fish-eye cracks that were formed in plasma-nitrided steel specimens under symetrical bending, symetrical torsion and biaxial in-phase bending-torsion combinations.
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Low Cycle Fatigue of Magnesium Alloy AZ91
Julišová, Martina ; Podrábský, Tomáš (referee) ; Juliš, Martin (advisor)
The objective of the present study is to investigate the fatigue characteristics of cast magnesium alloy AZ91 after low–cycle fatigue tests at the indoor temperature. Squeeze casting specimens in both non–thermal treatment cast state and in solution annealing state were used as the experimental materials. Cyclic hardening/softening and fatigue life curves were obtained from the tests varying according to the way of thermal treatment. This bachelor thesis includes also fracture tests of specimens. Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were used for the investigation.
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Structure and Properties of Selected Magnesium Cast Alloys
Svozil, Libor ; Pacal, Bohumil (referee) ; Podrábský, Tomáš (advisor)
Microstructure and mechanical properties of AZ91 magnesium alloy after die cast (casting under pressure) and squeeze casting were comparated. The compare of incident phases, their microhardness, gas bubbles in the alloy, hardness and other mechanical properties of alloy are included in this work. For compare has been used a light microscopy, tensile test, hardness and microhardness measurements, image analysis and scaning electron microscopy.
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