scholarly journals Analysis of biaxial proportional low-cycle fatigue crack propagation for hull inclined-crack plate based on accumulative plasticity

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junlin Deng ◽  
Wenling Tu ◽  
Qin Dong ◽  
Dawei Dong ◽  
Shenglin Qiu

AbstractFracture failures of ship plates subjected to in-plane biaxial low-cycle fatigue loading are generally the coupling result of accumulative plasticity and biaxial low-cycle fatigue damage. A biaxial low-cycle fatigue crack growth analysis of hull structure that accounts for the accumulative plasticity effect can be more suitable for the actual evaluation of the overall fracture performance of the hull structure in severe sea conditions. An analytical model of biaxial low-cycle fatigue crack propagation with a control parameter for ∆CTOD is presented for hull inclined-crack plate. A test was conducted for cruciform specimens made of Q235 steel with an inclined crack to validate the presented analysis. The biaxial accumulative plasticity behavior and the effects of biaxiality and stress ratios were investigated. The results of this study reveal a strong dependence of biaxial low-cycle fatigue crack propagation on biaxial accumulated plasticity.

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakazu Takagaki ◽  
Toshiya Nakamura

Numerical simulation of fatigue crack propagation based on fracture mechanics and the conventional finite element method requires a huge amount of computational resources when the cracked structure shows a complicated condition such as the multiple site damage or thermal fatigue. The objective of the present study is to develop a simulation technique for fatigue crack propagation that can be applied to complex situations by employing the continuum damage mechanics (CDM). An anisotropic damage tensor is defined to model a macroscopic fatigue crack. The validity of the present theory is examined by comparing the elastic stress distributions around the crack tip with those obtained by a conventional method. Combined with a nonlinear elasto-plastic constitutive equation, numerical simulations are conducted for low cycle fatigue crack propagation in a plate with one or two cracks. The results show good agreement with the experiments. Finally, propagations of multiply distributed cracks under low cycle fatigue loading are simulated to demonstrate the potential application of the present method.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 3010-3017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Hutař ◽  
Jan Poduška ◽  
Alice Chlupová ◽  
Miroslav Šmíd ◽  
Tomáš Kruml ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (31n32) ◽  
pp. 5477-5482 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATSUMICHI KUSHIBE ◽  
TSUTOMU TANAKA ◽  
YORINOBU TAKIGAWA ◽  
KENJI HIGASHI

The crack propagation properties for ultrafine-grained Zn -22 wt % Al alloy during low cycle fatigue (LCF) in the superplastic region and the non-superplastic region were investigated and compared with the corresponding results for several other materials. With the Zn - 22 wt % Al alloy, it was possible to conduct LCF tests even at high strain amplitudes of more than ±5%, and the alloy appeared to exhibit a longer LCF lifetime than the other materials examined. The fatigue life is higher in the superplastic region than in the non-superplastic region. The rate of fatigue crack propagation in the superplastic region is lower than that in the other materials in the high J-integral range. In addition, the formation of cavities and crack branching were observed around a crack tip in the supereplastic region. We therefore conclude that the formation of cavities and secondary cracks as a result of the relaxation of stress concentration around the crack tip results in a reduction in the rate of fatigue crack propagation and results in a longer fatigue lifetime.


2019 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 254-261
Author(s):  
Shang Wang ◽  
Wei Qiang Wang ◽  
Ming Da Song ◽  
Hao Zhang

In this study, the assessment and calculation methods for the crack propagation life of steam turbine rotor shafts containing defects are presented. The analytic methods for estimating the average stress and the alternating stress amplitude of the steam turbine rotor shafts are introduced. The defects on/in the rotor shafts were regularized by the method of fracture mechanics, and the high cycle fatigue crack propagation life and low cycle fatigue crack propagation life of the rotor shafts are estimated from Paris formula. Taking the 60MW turbine rotor shafts containing an initial surface defect and an initial internal defect as the examples respectively, the crack propagation life of them were calculated. The results indicated that the assessment method for the crack propagation life can preliminarily be both used to estimate the safety-operating life and to analyze the fracture reason of a steam turbine rotor shaft containing defects. This paper can provide reference for periodic maintenance and safety evaluation of turbine rotor shafts.


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