Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Energy Dissipation at Fatigue Crack Tip Under Cyclic Loading with Constant Stress Intensity Factor

Author(s):  
O. Plekhov ◽  
A. Vshivkov ◽  
A. Iziumova
2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (815) ◽  
pp. SMM0194-SMM0194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sho KAWATSU ◽  
Tetsuo YASUOKA ◽  
Yoshihiro MIZUTANI ◽  
Akira TODOROKI ◽  
Yoshiro SUZUKI

Author(s):  
Jianwei Dong ◽  
Weichi Pei ◽  
Hongchao Ji ◽  
Haiyang Long ◽  
Xiaobin Fu ◽  
...  

42CrMo steel is widely used in ultrahigh-strength structures such as low-speed heavy-duty gears. Mastering the fatigue crack propagation law has important significance for predicting structural fatigue life. Firstly, the fatigue crack propagation experiment is used to obtain the upper and lower thresholds value of type I fatigue crack propagation of 42CrMo steel compact tensile specimen under the alternating load of stress ratio R = 0.1. The Paris formula describing the relationship between the fatigue crack propagation rate and the crack tip stress intensity factor between the upper and lower thresholds value is obtained. Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the microscopic features of different stages of fatigue fracture. The results show that the twin boundary can provide a place for crack initiation; the defects in the material can promote the initiation and extension of fatigue cracks. The fatigue crack propagation of 42CrMo steel compact tensile specimens was numerically simulated by the finite element method. The relationship between the crack tip stress intensity factor and the crack length was obtained. The analysis results show that the crack tip stress intensity factor calculated by the plane finite element method differs slightly from the experimental results during the stable extension stage. After correction, the correlation coefficient between the numerical simulation correction value and the crack tip stress intensity factor value obtained by the experiment is 0.9926. Finally, the fatigue crack propagation rate corresponding to the crack tip stress intensity factor in the finite element results is calculated by the Paris formula and briefly analyzed. Compared with the experimental results, it shows that the numerical simulation is consistent with it, indicating the accuracy of the numerical simulation method, which can effectively predict the initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks in 42CrMo steel compact tensile specimens.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1764
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Galkiewicz ◽  
Urszula Janus-Galkiewicz

The paper presents the influence of in-plane constraints defined by T-stress on the behavior of a crack subjected to cyclic loading. In the analysis, a modified boundary layer model approach was used in which the cohesive model was introduced. In the simulations, the constant maximum value of the stress intensity factor and four levels of T-stress were defined. The model was subjected to ten repeated stress cycles. Based on the results obtained, an analysis of the effect of the in-plane constraint on selected aspects of crack behavior was made. The strong influence of in-plane constraint applied in the model on the crack closure and the fatigue crack growth rate was proven. Since the in-plane constraint described the influence of geometry on the stress field surrounding the fatigue crack tip in real geometry, the results suggested that it is possible to create precise formulae connecting the level of the in-plane constraint with the effective stress intensity factor range and to incorporate the T-stress or Q-stress level in the Paris law.


2007 ◽  
Vol 353-358 ◽  
pp. 1106-1109
Author(s):  
Hyeon Chang Choi ◽  
Hyeon Ki Choi ◽  
Jun Hyub Park

The cyclic crack tip opening displacement is well related to fatigue crack opening behavior. In this paper, we investigate the effect of the maximum stress intensity factor, Kmax, when predicting fatigue crack opening behavior using the cyclic crack tip opening displacement obtained from FEA. The commercial finite element code, ANSYS, for fatigue crack closure analysis in this study is used. We derive the prediction formula of crack opening behavior when using the cyclic crack tip displacement obtained from the FEA. The numerical prediction shows the good results regardless of stress ratios. It is confirmed that the crack opening behavior depends upon the maximum stress intensity factor Kmax.


2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
V. A. Babeshko ◽  
O. M. Babeshko ◽  
O. V. Evdokimova

The distinctions in the description of the conditions of cracking of materials are revealed. For Griffith–Irwin cracks, fracture is determined by the magnitude of the stress-intensity factor at the crack tip; in the case of the new type of cracks, fracture occurs due to an increase in the stress concentrations up to singular concentrations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Yang ◽  
Zhanjiang Wei ◽  
Zhen Liao ◽  
Shuwei Zhou ◽  
Shoune Xiao ◽  
...  

AbstractIn the digital image correlation research of fatigue crack growth rate, the accuracy of the crack tip position determines the accuracy of the calculation of the stress intensity factor, thereby affecting the life prediction. This paper proposes a Gauss-Newton iteration method for solving the crack tip position. The conventional linear fitting method provides an iterative initial solution for this method, and the preconditioned conjugate gradient method is used to solve the ill-conditioned matrix. A noise-added artificial displacement field is used to verify the feasibility of the method, which shows that all parameters can be solved with satisfactory results. The actual stress intensity factor solution case shows that the stress intensity factor value obtained by the method in this paper is very close to the finite element result, and the relative error between the two is only − 0.621%; The Williams coefficient obtained by this method can also better define the contour of the plastic zone at the crack tip, and the maximum relative error with the test plastic zone area is − 11.29%. The relative error between the contour of the plastic zone defined by the conventional method and the area of the experimental plastic zone reached a maximum of 26.05%. The crack tip coordinates, stress intensity factors, and plastic zone contour changes in the loading and unloading phases are explored. The results show that the crack tip change during the loading process is faster than the change during the unloading process; the stress intensity factor during the unloading process under the same load condition is larger than that during the loading process; under the same load, the theoretical plastic zone during the unloading process is higher than that during the loading process.


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