The invention relates to a steel wire
fretting fatigue testing machine and a method. The testing
machine mainly comprises a horizontal loading device, an axial clamping device and an axial tensile
compression device, wherein the horizontal loading device consists of a concave horizontal support
saddle, a guiding support
saddle, a wedged slide block, a loading steel wire, a
pressure sensor, a loading rod and a locking nut; the axial clamping device consists of a
spoke-type tensile compression sensor, a
threaded rod connected with the
spoke-type tensile compression sensor and an upper holding block fixed on the
threaded rod; and the axial tensile
compression device consists of an oil cylinder, a
threaded rod connected with the
piston of the oil cylinder and a lower holding block fixed on the threaded rod. The steel wire
fretting fatigue testing machine has the advantages that by exerting horizontal set load on an axial steel wire through the horizontal loading device and by acting axial
fatigue stress on a steel wire sample through the axial clamping device and the axial tensile
compression device, the testing machine realizes
fretting fatigue test of the coaction of
fretting wear and axial
fatigue stress of the steel wire sample; dynamic adjustment of the concave horizontal support
saddle ensures that an axial fatigue steel wire does not generate bending stress; moreover, fluctuation ranges of both amplitude and frequency are wide and easy to control and measure by utilizing
computer program.