Two steels are being considered for manufacture of as-forged connecting rods. One is AISI 4340 Cr-Mo-Ni steel capable of being heat-treated to a tensile strength of 260 kpsi. The other is a plain carbon steel AISI 1040 with an attainable Sut of 113 kpsi. If each rod is to have a size giving an equivalent diameter d of 0.75 in, is there any advantage to using the alloy steel for this fatigue application?

A rectangular bar is cut from an AISI 1020 cold-drawn steel flat. The bar is 2.500 in wide by 4/8 in thick and has a 0.500-in-dia. hole drilled through the center as depicted in Table A-15-1. The bar is concentrically loaded in push-pull fatigue by axial forces Fa, uniformly distributed across the width. Using a design factor of na = 2, estimate the largest force Fa that can be applied ignoring column action. What is the largest force that can be applied to the part? (Round the final answer to three decimal places.) The largest force that can be applied is kips.

A rectangular bar is cut from an AISI 1020 cold-drawn steel flat. The bar is 2.500 in wide by 4/8 in thick and has a 0.500-in-dia. hole drilled through the center as depicted in Table A-15–1. The bar is concentrically loaded in push-pull fatigue by axial forces Fa, uniformly distributed across the width. Using a design factor of na = 2, estimate the largest force Fa that can be applied ignoring column action. What are the values of the theoretical stress-concentration factor, the notch sensitivity, and the fatigue stress-concentration factor? The value of the theoretical stress-concentration factor is The value of the notch sensitivity is (Round the final answer to three decimal places.) The value of the fatigue stress-concentration factor is (Round the final answer to three decimal places.)

A bar AISI 1035 steel forged and heat treated with minimum yield strength of 570MPa is subjected to bending moment of 290Nm and a torsional moment of 310Nm. Assuming a factor of safety of 2, determine the diameter of rod using the following theories of failure (i) Maximum Shear stress theory and (ii) Distortion Energy theory (iii) Maximum stress theory, also specify which diameter is considered as safe