Laser treatment effect on fatigue characterizations for steel alloy beam coated with nanoparticles

Abstract

Previous work investigated the effect of nano coating for steel beams on the fatigue characterization and calculated that the coating for beams leads to modifying the fatigue life and stress. Therefore, this work modifies the fatigue characterizations for beams by using laser treatment. The main aim of this work is to modify the fatigue properties of steel materials by using a coating surface, with nanoparticle materials, in addition to the laser treatment technique, at the same time. The experimental work was divided into three parts; first, the fabricated fatigue steel samples were coated by zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticle; second, treatment of the fatigue sample by laser technique using (low-high) and (high–low) loading; and finally, testing the fatigue samples to calculate the fatigue life and stress, with and without laser treatment. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to study the surface morphology of the samples. In addition, the numerical technique, using the finite element, was employed to evaluate the fatigue characterizations for steel samples and the results were compared. The comparison of the numerical and experimental results shows that the maximum discrepancy did not exceed about 10.86%. Finally, the treatment of nanomaterials coated steel samples shows that the fatigue characterizations were more than 35%.