FATIGUE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF STRENX 700 AND 55NiCrMoV7 STEELS

Proceedings of 41st Danubia-Adria Symposium Advances in Experimental Mechanics (pp. 75-78)

 

АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Dušan Arsić , Gordana Jovičić , Miroslav Živković , Miloš Pešić , Marko Topalović , Đorđe Ivković , Marko Delić

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DOI:  10.46793/41DAS2025.075A

УВОД / INTRODUCTION:

The increasing demand for lightweight and reliable structural components and tools in manufacturing engineering creates a need for accurate data regarding the fatigue performance of high-strength and tool steels. This paper presents an experimental and comparative investigation of the fatigue behavior of STRENX 700, a high-strength structural steel, and 55NiCrMoV7, a thermally stable hot-work tool steel. Fatigue tests were conducted using a stress-controlled, fully reversed tension-compression loading regime (R = –1) on smooth “dog-bone” specimens. The resulting S–N curves were used to evaluate fatigue strength and determine the material parameters using Basquin’s relation. The results provide insight into the fatigue properties of these steels that have different industrial applications but are tested under the same conditions. The fatigue performance, advantages, and trade-offs of each steel grade are discussed.

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This research was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, contract No. 451-03-66/2024-03/200378, and by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, #GRANT No. 7475, Prediction of damage evolution in engineering structures – PROMINENT.

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