Cyclic pressure fatigue tests of silicon nitride ball were performed in two phases. In the first phase, compressive and tensile stresses were applied to two cracks on the ball surface, respectively. In the second phase, tensile stress was applied to the crack that was applied to compressive stress in the first phase to grow. The effect of cyclic compressive stress on crack growth was investigated through this series of tests. The results are as follows. The ball did not fracture in either Phase 1 or Phase 2 tests. The crack did not propagate when the maximum compressive load of approximately 5 kN was repeatedly applied across the crack surface. In addition, the crack applied with compressive stress before tensile stress, and the crack which was not, both grew to about 520 μm during N ranging from 0 to 1.2×107 fatigue cycles. The crack applied with compressive stress before tensile stress at fatigue cycles N = 103 grew about 170 μm longer than the crack to which stress was not applied.
Mode I and Mode II fatigue crack growth on the equator of silicon nitride balls were tested under cyclic compressive loads. The mode I crack propagated in a straight direction along compressive axis. The angle of the mode II crack changed toward the direction perpendicular to tensile stress direction. The effect of mode I on cracks in differential mode II was strong after cycles.
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