A general weight function approach to compute mode-II stress intensity factors and crack paths for slightly curved or kinked cracks in finite bodies

2008 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 2246-2259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Fett ◽  
Gabriele Rizzi ◽  
Hans-Achim Bahr ◽  
Ute Bahr ◽  
Van-Bac Pham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Intensity ◽  
Weight Function ◽  
Stress Intensity Factors ◽  
Function Approach ◽  
Mode Ii ◽  
Intensity Factors ◽  
General Weight ◽  
Kinked Cracks ◽  
Crack Paths ◽  
General Weight Function

Crack Propagation in Rolling Line Contacts

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Salehizadeh ◽  
N. Saka
Keyword(s):  
Stress Intensity ◽  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Stress Intensity Factors ◽  
Mode Ii ◽  
Pure Mode ◽  
Intensity Factors ◽  
Crack Face ◽  
Normal Loading ◽  
Line Contacts ◽  
Crack Growth Model

The stress intensity factors for short straight and branched subsurface cracks subjected to a Hertzian loading are calculated by the finite element method. The effect of crack face friction on stress intensity factors is considered for both straight and branched cracks. The calculations show that the straight crack is subjected to pure mode II loading, whereas the branched crack is subjected to both mode I and mode II, with ΔKI/ΔKII < 0.25. Although KI is small, it strongly influences KII by keeping the branched crack faces apart. Based on the ΔKII values and Paris’s crack growth model, the number of stress reversals required to grow a crack in a rolling component from an initial threshold length to the final spalling length was estimated. It was found that the crack propagation period is small compared with the expected bearing fatigue life. Therefore, crack propagation is not the rate controlling factor in the fatigue failure of bearings operating under normal loading levels.

Estimation of Mixed-Mode Stress Intensity Factors with Presence of the Confinement Parameters T-Stress and A3

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Lahouari Fodil ◽  
Abdallah El Azzizi ◽  
Mohammed Hadj Meliani
Keyword(s):  
Stress Intensity ◽  
Stress Intensity Factors ◽  
Mixed Mode ◽  
Compact Tension ◽  
Mode I ◽  
Mode Ii ◽  
Mixed Mode Fracture ◽  
Intensity Factors ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
T Stress

A failure criterion is proposed for ductile fracture in U-notched components under mixed mode static loading. The Compact Tension Shear (CTS) is the preferred test specimen used to determine stress intensity factor in the mode I, mode II and the mixed-mode fracture. In this work, the mode I and mode II stress intensity factors were computed for different notch ratio lengths 0.1<a/W<0.7, of the inner radius of notch 0.25mm<ρ<4mm and load orientation angles 0°<α< 90° using finite element analysis. However, a review of numerical analysis results reveals that the conventional fracture criteria with only stress intensity factors (NSIFs) Kρ first term of Williams’s solution provide different description of stress field around notch zone comparing with results introduce the second and third parameter T-stress and A3.

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