Effect of Crystallographic Texture on Deformation Fields in Fretting Contacts

Author(s):  
J. R. Mayeur ◽  
D. L. McDowell ◽  
R. W. Neu

Fretting contacts in the partial slip regime are simulated by a finite element model of a rigid cylinder on an elastic-crystal viscoplastic half-space. The half-space is modeled as duplex Ti-6Al-4V, a polycrystalline metal alloy consisting of equiaxed primary alpha grains and secondary lamellar alpha+beta grains. Various realistic 3-D crystallographic textures are considered. The deformation fields generated by fretting are quantified in terms of cumulative effective plastic strain distributions and plastic strain maps. The results clearly demonstrate the importance of the various sources of microstructural heterogeneity in the surface layers. The main sources of microstructural heterogeneity include the distribution of phases, slip system strength anisotropy, and crystallographic texture. In basal textured materials with fretting on the edge, the plastic strain is more evenly distributed in the subsurface regions than in other textured cases. This is explained by the greater number of grains able to deform by soft slip modes and the symmetry of this type of texture relative to the fretting orientation. Transverse and basal/transverse textures result in more heterogeneously-distributed plastic strain with strain often concentrated in narrow vein-like structures with maximum accumulation near alpha/alpha+beta grain boundaries. Elastic shakedown is more difficult to achieve in the later case. Ratcheting is the primary mechanism for cyclic plastic strain accumulation.

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1840
Author(s):  
Shengjie Wang ◽  
Magd Abdel Wahab

Fretting wear is a common phenomenon that happens between contact parts when there is an oscillatory relative movement. To investigate wear characteristics history in the fretting process, the finite element method (FEM) is commonly applied to simulate the fretting by considering the wear in the model. In most literature publications, the wear coefficient is considered as a constant, which is not a real case based on the experimental results. To consider the variation of wear coefficient, a double-linear model is applied in this paper, and the tribologically transformed structure (TTS) phase is considered in the study of the wear coefficient variation model. By using these models for variable wear coefficient for both flat and cylinder, the difference of wear characteristics, plastic strain, and stress between variable wear coefficient model (VWCM) and constant wear coefficient model (CWCM) are analyzed. The results show that the variable wear coefficient has no significant effect on the wear characteristic at the end of the process in the gross sliding regime. However, in the partial slip regime, the effect of variable wear coefficient on wear characteristics is significant. Due to the difference in contact geometry in the fretting process between VWCM and CWCM, the tangential and shear stress and equivalent plastic strain also show differences during the fretting process.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Arman Ahmadi ◽  
Farshid Sadeghi

Abstract In this investigation, a 3D finite element model (FEM) was developed to study fretting wear of Hertzian circular and line contacts. The wear law incorporated in this model is based on the accumulated dissipated energy (ADE). A stress-based damage mechanics finite element model using the ADE was developed to determine wear of non-conformal bodies in contact. Voronoi tessellation was used to simulate the microstructure of the materials during the fretting process. To simulate the wear area, a material removal approach was implemented in the model. The FEM was used to investigate partial slip regimes under various operating conditions. The normal and shear surface tractions for the circular and line contacts were applied to the domain in order to improve the computational efficiency. The influence of modulus of elasticity, hardness and coefficient of friction on the partial slip fretting phenomenon were studied. In order to verify the model, several fretting wear tests were conducted using AISI 8620 steel and AISI 1566 steel in partial slip regime of circular contact configuration. The properties for each material such as the modulus of elasticity, hardness, and the grain size were measured experimentally and compared with the model. For the defined load and displacement amplitude of the experimental fretting tests, both materials have shown a partial slip behavior in the initial cycles and then transition to a gross slip regime. The numerical model predicted the worn surface and wear rate in partial slip regime which corroborated well with these experimental test results.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 875
Author(s):  
Jie Wu ◽  
Yuri Hovanski ◽  
Michael Miles

A finite element model is proposed to investigate the effect of thickness differential on Limiting Dome Height (LDH) testing of aluminum tailor-welded blanks. The numerical model is validated via comparison of the equivalent plastic strain and displacement distribution between the simulation results and the experimental data. The normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values are proposed as a means of quantifying the influence of thickness differential for a variety of different ratios. Increasing thickness differential was found to decrease the normalized equivalent plastic strain and normalized LDH values, this providing an evaluation of blank formability.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kulkarni ◽  
C. A. Rubin ◽  
G. T. Hahn

The present paper, describes a transient translating elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical finite element model to study 2-D frictional rolling contact. Frictional two-dimensional contact is simulated by repeatedly translating a non-uniform thermo-mechanical distribution across the surface of an elasto-plastic half space. The half space is represented by a two dimensional finite element mesh with appropriate boundaries. Calculations are for an elastic-perfectly plastic material and the selected thermo-physical properties are assumed to be temperature independent. The paper presents temperature variations, stress and plastic strain distributions and deformations. Residual tensile stresses are observed. The magnitude and depth of these stresses depends on 1) the temperature gradients and 2) the magnitudes of the normal and tangential tractions.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Strenkowski ◽  
J. T. Carroll

A finite element model of orthogonal metal cutting is described. The paper introduces a new chip separation criterion based on the effective plastic strain in the workpiece. Several cutting parameters that are often neglected in simplified metal-cutting models are included, such as elastic-plastic material properties of both the workpiece and tool, friction along the tool rake face, and geometry of the cutting edge and workpiece. The model predicts chip geometry, residual stresses in the workpiece, and tool stresses and forces, without any reliance on empirical metal cutting data. The paper demonstrates that use of a chip separation criterion based on effective plastic strain is essential in predicting chip geometry and residual stresses with the finite element method.


Author(s):  
Xian-Kui Zhu ◽  
Brian N. Leis

Work hardening and Bauschinger effects on plastic deformation and fatigue life for a beam and an elbow under cyclic loading are examined using finite element analysis (FEA). Three typical material plastic hardening models, i.e. isotropic, kinematic and combined isotropic/kinematic hardening models are adopted in the FEA calculations. Based on the FEA results of cyclic stress and strain at a critical location and using an energy-based fatigue damage parameter, the fatigue lives are predicted for the beam and elbow. The results show that (1) the three material hardening models determine similar stress at the critical location with small differences during the cyclic loading, (2) the isotropic model underestimates the cyclic plastic strain and overestimates the fatigue life, (3) the kinematic model overestimates the cyclic plastic strain and underestimates the fatigue life, and (4) the combined model predicts the intermediate cyclic plastic strain and reasonable fatigue life.


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