Ultrasonic fatigue tests were performed on notched specimens of medium strength steel, 2.25Cr-1Mo, and the bolt specimens of high strength steel, SNB7, under mean stress application, which was enabled by our original loading device in house. Stress concentration factor,
α, and nominal stress of the notched specimens were obtained by means of static and dynamic analyses of finite element method. For the notched specimen of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel, stress amplitude,
σa, at fatigue limit hardy reduced by the application of mean stress,
σm, since maximum stress,
σmax, exceeded the yield stress,
σys, by a small amount of tensile
σm application and the shakedown behavior took place. While for the bolt specimen of SNB7,
σa at fatigue limit reduced by tensile
σm application, however, it tended to be constant when the
σmax exceeded the
σys to result in the shakedown behavior. It has been widely recognized that
α is necessary to be considered for
σa but not for
σm in order to predict the effect of stress concentration on the fatigue limit. However,
α should be considered for both
σa and
σm depending on the certain combinations of the material strength and the stress concentration condition.
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