An Investigation of Effect of High Temperature Environmental to Fatigue Life of Cutting Steels

In this study, effects of high temperature environmental to fatigue life have been investigated in cutting steels. For this purpose, fatigue testing machine of micro controller was designed for cylindrical material. The samples which were produced from cutting steels had been kept in high temperature (900 oC) for 3 hours. Effects of high temperature to fatigue life have been investigated by exposing the samples kept and non-kept in high temperature to fatigue test for different tensiles in designed and produced machine. As result of experiments, it has been observed that the high temperature environment has reduced fatigue resistance in cutting steels. Besides, it was determined that pore intensity of samples kept in high temperature environment increased when the photographs taken from scanning electron microscope (SEM) were investigated