The rotary bending and cyclic torsion tests were performed on sintered Al
2O
3 cylindrical specimens having the same diameter. The tests were performed at room temperature within the range of 10
4 to 10
9 stress-cycles by using an Ono's rotary bending fatigue testing machine (147Nm, 3420rpm) and a Schenck-type torsional fatigue testing machine (40Nm, 3450rpm), respectively. The fractured surfaces after the both tests were also examined by SEM. The test results under rotary bending were compared with those under cyclic torsion. It became clear that the fatigue behavior under rotary bending was similar to that under cyclic torsion. The life of the material increased remarkably as the stress amplitude decreased. Although the material did not have a distinct knee at cyclic numbers less than 10
7, the knee seemed to exist at cyclic numbers more than 10
8. The fatigue limit under rotary bending was about equal to that under cyclic torsion. Each
S-N curve could be represented by a straight line up to about 10
8 stress-cycles and could be expressed by the formulas, σ
nN=constant and τ
nN=constant, respectively. The exponent
n under rotary bending was about 19 and
n under cyclic torsion was about 16. These values were small in comparison with those in literature. It was considered that the similarity of fatigue behaviors under rotary bending and cyclic torsion was due to the crack propagation from the initial flaw subjected to the tensile and compressive principal stresses. It was known by macroscopic observation that the fractured surfaces did not have clear mirrors. The fatigue fractured morphology could not be found under microscopic observation.
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