It is well known that the fatigue strength of steels is decreased by oxygen and/or humidity in the atmospheres. Only few reports have been published, however, on the effect of impurities such as SO
2 gas on the fatigue strength of steels. In order to study the effect of SO
2 gas on fatigue strengths of steels, rotating bending fatigue tests of a mild steel, a 60 kg/mm
2 and an 80 kg/mm
2 high strength steels and an 18-8 stainless steel have been corned out in various atmospheres. The employed atmospheres are air, humidified a'r, dry SO
2 gas, mixed gas of dry SO
2 and humidified air, mixed gas of dry H
2S and humidified air, H
2O, and H
2SO
4.
On the fatigue strength of the mild steel the influence of dry SO
2 gas is not recognized, but the influence of mixed gas of dry SO
2 gas and humidified air is detected. The degree of the influence, however, is almost the same as that in humidified air. Therefore the influence of SO
2 gas on fatigue strength of the mild steel seems to be little, but some influences of SO
2 gas can be surmised from the characteristic aspect of fractured surfaces. On the 60 kg/mm
2 and 80 kg/mm
2 high strength steels and the 18-8 stainless steel the influence of SO
2 gas is not observed. For all the steels tested in this experiment, the influence of H
2SO
4 is very conspicuous.
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