A Fast Method for Ratchetting Strain Prediction

Author(s):  
Mohammad Noban ◽  
Hamid Jahed

A time efficient method for predicting ratchetting strain is proposed. By finding the ratchetting rate, at only a few cycles, the ratchetting strain of any cycle can be determined. It is shown that a trajectory of the origin of stress may be defined in the deviatoric stress space as the ratchetting progresses. The method for obtaining this trajectory from a standard uniaxial asymmetric cyclic loading is presented. At the beginning, this trajectory coincides with the initial stress origin and approaches the mean stress, displaying a power law relationship with the number of loading cycles. This path defines a moving frame of reference for stress tensor calculations. Ratchetting rates for different cyclic loading are calculated with the knowledge of this frame of reference and through utilizing a constitutive cyclic plasticity model which incorporates deviatoric stresses and back stresses that are measured with respect to this moving frame. The proposed model is used to predict ratchetting strain of 1070 steel under single step constant amplitude and multi-step loading. The method is also applied to non-proportional loading. Results obtained agree with the available experimental measurements.

Author(s):  
Seiichiro Tsutsumi

In order to simulate mechanical fatigue phenomena under macroscopically elastic condition, the plastic stretching within a yield surface has to be described, whilst the plastic strain is induced remarkably as the stress approaches the dominant yielding state. In this study, a phenomenological plasticity model, proposed for the description of the cyclic loading behavior observed for typical carbon steels during the high-cycle fatigue subjected to stresses lower than the yield stress, is applied for the prediction of fatigue initiation life. The model is formulated based on the unconventional plasticity model and is applied for materials obeying isotropic and kinematic hardening law. The mechanical responses under cyclic loading conditions are examined briefly. Finally, the initiation life of fatigue cracking is discussed based on the proposed model with the damage counting parameter.


2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (31n32) ◽  
pp. 5394-5399 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKESHI UEMORI ◽  
YUJI MITO ◽  
SATOSHI SUMIKAWA ◽  
RYUTARO HINO ◽  
FUSAHITO YOSHIDA ◽  
...  

This paper deals with plastic deformations of a high tensile strength steel sheet (HTSS sheet) under biaxial stress condition including strain path. Using a cruciform specimen of a HTSS sheet of 780MPa-TS, experiments under proportional and non-proportional loadings were investigated. Numerical simulations of stress-strain responses for several strain paths after biaxial stretching were conducted using a large-strain cyclic plasticity model (Yoshida-Uemori model). The results of numerical simulation agrees well the corresponding experimental results, which is attributed to the accurate modeling of the backstress evolution of the anisotropic yield function.


Author(s):  
Rong Jiao ◽  
Stelios Kyriakides

A buried offshore pipeline is essentially axially constrained by the soil cover. Heating by the passage of hot oil at high pressure can plastically deform it. The deformation involves expansion of the diameter, which for thinner pipes can be accompanied by axisymmetric wrinkling. During a lifetime of 20 or more years, lines experience regular startup and shutdown cycles. This study examines how this cycling affects wrinkling and the hoop expansion of such lines. A set of experiments on super-duplex tubes with D/t of 28.5 was conducted using the following idealized cyclic loading history. A tube is first pressurized and then compressed into the plastic range to a level that initiates wrinkling. It is then cycled under stress control about a compressive mean stress while the pressure is kept constant. The combined loads cause simultaneous ratcheting in the hoop and axial directions as well as a gradual growth of the wrinkles. At some stage the amplitude of the wrinkles starts to grow exponentially with the number of cycles N leading to localization and collapse. The rate of ratcheting and the number of cycles to failure depend on the initial compressive pre-strain, the internal pressure and the stress cycle parameters. The problem is modeled as a shell with initial axisymmetric imperfections. A challenge in the simulations is that the cyclic plasticity model that is used must be capable of capturing correctly the type of biaxial material ratcheting that develops. The Dafalias-Popov two-surface nonlinear kinematic hardening model, enhanced and suitably calibrated is shown to capture the prevalent ratcheting deformations correctly leading to predictions that are in good agreement with the experimental results. The model is then used to evaluate the ratcheting behavior of pipes under thermal-pressure cyclic loading histories seen by buried pipelines.


Author(s):  
Panagiotis J. Charitidis

The present study tries to present a cyclic hardening model with the aim to simulate quantitatively the material response under strain controlled cyclic loading in tension-compression, of specified axial deformation. A numerical study was carried out to investigate the cyclic constitutive behaviour of alloy Indium under viscoplastic deformation. The analysis was performed under prescribed symmetric strain-controlled cyclic loading. The model contains both isotropic and kinematic hardening components, while the analysis were performed using Comsol Multiphysics for only 60 seconds duration. The kinematic hardening was described by using multiple back stresses. Multiple back stresses can provide a smoother transition between the elastic and plastic deformation, and it improves the general shape of the hysteresis loop. Two cases (geometries) have been examined in this study. From the material model and finite element cyclic plasticity model results, it is found that for the same parameters, but different dimensions there is difference on the stress-strain curves as well as on the von Mises stresses.


2007 ◽  
Vol 353-358 ◽  
pp. 2077-2080
Author(s):  
Gab Chul Jang ◽  
Kyong Ho Chang ◽  
Chin Hyung Lee

During the welding process to make welded joints, residual stress is inevitably generated and weld metal is used. Welding Residual stress is influenced on the behavior of welded joints under monotonic and cyclic loading. And the weld metals used in welding process have different mechanical characteristics than structural steels. Therefore, to accurately predict the hysteretic behavior of welded joints, the effect of residual stress and weld metal must be investigated. In this paper, the residual stress distribution in a welded tubular T-joint was investigated by carrying out three-dimensional non-steady heat conduction analysis and three-dimensional thermal elastic-plastic analysis. To consider a effect of base metal(SM490) and weld metal(E71T-1), a cyclic plasticity model was formulated based on monotonic and cyclic loading tests. And the formulated model was applied to three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analysis. The effect of residual stress and weld metal on hysteretic behavior of a welded tubular T-joint was investigated by carrying out numerical analyses considering residual stress and cyclic plasticity model of base metal and weld metal respectively.


Author(s):  
H Rokhgireh ◽  
A Nayebi

Correct determination of ratcheting strain is very important in cyclic loading. A new simple yield surface distortion model is presented and its effect on cyclic loading and ratcheting prediction is investigated in this research. Model of Baltov and Sawczuk was modified in order to be able to consider directional distortion of the yield surface. Movement of the yield surface center is modeled by Chaboche's nonlinear kinematic hardening model. Isotropic hardening was also considered. A triangular function is used and necessary cyclic plasticity relations are developed. Convexity of the proposed model is discussed and verified. Performance of the proposed model in ratcheting strain prediction is investigated in multiaxial non proportional loadings under different paths. Experimental results with stress, strain and combined stress-strain control paths are compared with the proposed model results. Incorporation of the yield surface distortion of this new model, predicts better ratcheting strain for different stress, strain and stress-strain paths.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Yousef Ghaderi Dehkordi ◽  
Ali Pourkamali Anaraki ◽  
Amir Reza Shahani

The prediction of residual stress relaxation is essential to assess the safety of welded components. This paper aims to study the influence of various effective parameters on residual stress relaxation under cyclic loading. In this regard, a 3D finite element modeling is performed to determine the residual stress in welded aluminum plates. The accuracy of this analysis is verified through experiment. To study the plasticity effect on stress relaxation, two plasticity models are implemented: perfect plasticity and combined isotropic-kinematic hardening. Hence, cyclic plasticity characterization of the material is specified by low cycle fatigue tests. It is found that the perfect plasticity leads to greater stress relaxation. In order to propose an accurate model to compute the residual stress relaxation, the Taguchi L18 array with four 3-level factors and one 6-level is employed. Using statistical analysis, the order of factors based on their effect on stress relaxation is determined as mean stress, stress amplitude, initial residual stress, and number of cycles. In addition, the stress relaxation increases with an increase in mean stress and stress amplitude.


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