Author : Samatham Madhukar, Birudala Raga Harshith Reddy, Gyara Ajay Kumar, Ramawath Prashanth Naik

Fatigue failure is one of the main reasons for the mechanical failure in engineering materials. To improve the fatigue strength of the material one of the most used method is surface treatment of the materials in which hardness, wear resistance and aesthetics is improved. In this paper the different methods of surface coatings, types of fractures that occur in the material during fatigue testing and effect of the fatigue life on the material is studied.

Keywords: Fatigue Life, Surface Coating, Fracture

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.8, No.1 (Jan/Feb 2018)