A novel two-scale damage model for fatigue damage analysis of transition region between high- and low-cycle fatigue

2017 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaojiao Tang ◽  
Weiping Hu ◽  
Qingchun Meng ◽  
Linlin Sun ◽  
Zhixin Zhan
2006 ◽  
Vol 514-516 ◽  
pp. 804-809
Author(s):  
S. Gao ◽  
Ewald Werner

The forging die material, a high strength steel designated W513 is considered in this paper. A fatigue damage model, based on thermodynamics and continuum damage mechanics, is constructed in which both the previous damage and the loading sequence are considered. The unknown material parameters in the model are identified from low cycle fatigue tests. Damage evolution under multi-level fatigue loading is investigated. The results show that the fatigue life is closely related to the loading sequence. The fatigue life of the materials with low fatigue loading first followed by high fatigue loading is longer than that for the reversed loading sequence.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1768
Author(s):  
Lizhen Huang ◽  
Weilian Qu ◽  
Ernian Zhao

The multiaxial fatigue critical plane method can be used to evaluate the extremely-low-cycle fatigue (ELCF) damage of beam-to-column welded joints in steel frameworks subjected to strong seismic activity. In this paper, fatigue damage models using structural detail parameters are studied. Firstly, the fatigue properties obtained from experiments are adopted to assess ELCF life for steel frameworks. In these experiments, two types of welded specimens, namely, plate butt weld (PB) and cruciform load-carrying groove weld (CLG), are designed according to the structural details of steel beam and box column joints, in which both structural details and welded factors are taken into account. Secondly, experiments are performed on three full-scale steel welded beam-to-column joints to determine the contribution of stress and/or strain to damage parameters. Finally, we introduce a modification of the most popular fatigue damage model of Fatemi and Socie (FS), modified by us in a previous study, for damage evaluation, and compare this with Shang and Wang (SW) in order to examine the applicability of the fatigue properties of PB and CLG. This study shows that the modified FS model using the fatigue properties of CLG can predict the crack initiation life and evaluate the damage of beam-to-column welded joints, and can be subsequently used for further investigation of the damage evolution law.


2014 ◽  
Vol 941-944 ◽  
pp. 1477-1482
Author(s):  
Xu Tao Nie ◽  
Wan Hua Chen ◽  
Yuan Xing Wang

High-cycle fatigue damage analysis and life prediction is a most crucial problem in the research field of solid mechanics. Based on the thermodynamic potentials in the framework of thermodynamics a numerical method for high-cycle fatigue damage was studied and provided by using a two-scale damage model. Furthermore, according to the “jump-in-cycles” procedure the numerical simulation of high-cycle fatigue damage was implemented in a user subroutine of ABAQUS software. Finally, a numerical simulation instance of high-cycle fatigue damage was provided and compared with a set of test data, which indicates that the numerical simulation method presented is reasonable and applicable.


Author(s):  
Dileep Sivarama Iyer ◽  
Nikhil Chandran Pillai

Abstract Modern day combustors operate at very high temperatures which are close to combustor material softening temperatures. At the same time, to meet stringent emission legislations there is a strong drive to improve upon the rich burn combustor technology or shift to advanced lean burn combustor technologies. One of the key driver to improve emission is to save the cooling air budget and use the saved air for primary combustion but this approach would require more advanced and efficient cooling techniques. Fan shaped effusion cooling technology is a very promising technique as it offers high film cooling effectiveness. However, complex cooling features associated with this technology can lead to higher stress concertation and localized triaxial stress state. This stressstrain field in combination with a typical gas turbine engine operating cycle makes such effusion holes highly vulnerable to the thermo-mechanical fatigue failure. Hence to ensure the safety and reliability of combustor liners with such innovative features, it is essential to have thorough understanding of the stress-strain field in the vicinity and accurate prediction of life to first crack. The biggest challenge the designers and engineers face while predicting the initiation life of a structure is selecting the appropriate fatigue damage model for an application. This is due to following reasons: (a) The scatter in fatigue life predicted using different models and experimental values are very huge (b) There is no general universal method which can predict the multiaxial fatigue life accurately for all the materials and loading conditions (c) No general consensus exits among the researchers on which model have to be used for a particular application, material, loading and geometry (d) Application level studies are seldom available on this subject, most of the studies are restricted to laboratory level specimens with very limited implications to industry. Ideally, the fatigue damage model which has to be used for a particular application has to be validated through experiments. To meet this objective, several test specimens featuring novel fan shaped hole geometries were mass-produced using state of the art laser drilling technology. All these specimens were subjected to strain controlled isothermal low cycle fatigue test and the cycles to crack initiation was monitored using potential drop method. Six different multiaxial fatigue damage models (which can be used in low cycle fatigue regime) viz. Walker model, Smith Watson and Topper model (SWT), Fatemi Socie model (FS), Wang and Brown model (WB), Shang model (SW) and Xu model were selected and the life estimated by these models were compared with the experimental values. From the study it is observed that Xu model in which the damage parameter is built using the concept of shear strain energy looks most promising for this application.


Author(s):  
Yu Tian ◽  
Zhuo-shang Ji

The main objective of this paper is to study the effects of general low cycle fatigue (LCF) damage on ultimate strength of unstiffened ship plates under uniaxial compression. A nonlinear LCF damage model has been derived on basis of continuum damage mechanics (CDM) coupled with plastic mechanics in order to define the deterioration of materials. The theoretical results show that the damage variable D can be measured by a simple procedure and it can be related to the mechanical property of material directly. Formulae predicting ultimate strength reduction have been proposed based on amended Faulkner’s simple and useful expression. Nonlinear finite element analyses (FEA) of panels with various material damages have been carried out. The results indicate that the deterioration of materials is important factors determining the amount of strength reduction. It was also found that the proposed formulae can accurately predict the residual ultimate strength of unstiffened plate with general fatigue damage.


2014 ◽  
Vol 496-500 ◽  
pp. 561-566
Author(s):  
Qin Dong ◽  
Ping Yang ◽  
Jun Lin Deng ◽  
Hong Wang

A low-cycle fatigue damage model for stiffened plates has been derived based on the theory of damage mechanics. The fatigue damage variable equation of the stiffened plate under cyclic loading was introduced into the accumulative plastic strain equation. Then by means of integral transformation, the evolution equation of axial plastic strain was derived under low cyclic loading condition. The analysis results by the presented model compare well with those by the finite element method.


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