Design and Fabrication of Fatigue Testing Machine

Abstract

Many engineering machines and mechanical components are subjected to fluctuating stresses, taking place at relatively high frequencies and under these conditions failure is found to occur. This is called fatigue failure. And this led to the invention of a fatigue testing machine. In view of effective design that will not fail accidentally, this research is conceived. This testing machine will determine the strength of materials under the action of fatigue load. Specimens are subjected to repeated varying forces or fluctuating loading of specific magnitude while the no. of cycles are counted till the breakage of specimen and results are plotted.