scholarly journals The Impact of Residual Stress Relaxation on Fatigue Life Enhancing Effect of Cold Expansion

Author(s):  
Di GUAN ◽  
Qin SUN
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 419
Author(s):  
Jin Gan ◽  
Zi’ang Gao ◽  
Yiwen Wang ◽  
Zhou Wang ◽  
Weiguo Wu

Ship hatch corner is a common structure in a ship and its fatigue problem has always been one of the focuses in ship engineering due to the long–term high–stress concentration state during the ship’s life. For investigating the fatigue life improvement of the ship hatch corner under different shot peening (SP) treatments, a series of fatigue tests, residual stress and surface topography measurements were conducted for SP specimens. Furthermore, the distributions of the surface residual stress are measured with varying numbers of cyclic loads, investigating the residual stress relaxation during cyclic loading. The results show that no matter which SP process parameters are used, the fatigue lives of the shot–peened ship hatch corner specimens are longer than those at unpeened specimens. The relaxation rate of the residual stress mainly depends on the maximum compressive residual stress (σRSmax) and the depth of the maximum compressive residual stress (δmax). The larger the values of σRSmax and δmax, the slower the relaxation rates of the residual stress field. The results imply that the effect of residual stress field and surface roughness should be considered comprehensively to improve the fatigue life of the ship hatch corner with SP treatment. The increase in peening intensity (PI) within a certain range can increase the depth of the compressive residual stress field (CRSF), so the fatigue performance of the ship hatch corner is improved. Once the PI exceeds a certain value, the surface damage caused by the increase in surface roughness will not be offset by the CRSF and the fatigue life cannot be improved optimally. This research provides an approach of fatigue performance enhancement for ship hatch corners in engineering application.


2011 ◽  
Vol 117-119 ◽  
pp. 1656-1661
Author(s):  
Di Guan ◽  
Qin Sun

Cold expansion is a well-known technique for improving the fatigue life of fastener holes in aeronautical structures by introducing a compressive residual stress field around them. In this paper, a 3-D finite element model is used to analyze the residual stress distribution and relaxation around an expanded hole for aluminum alloy 7050. The results reveal that the cutting process of split sleeve cold expansion and creep are main reason for residual stress relaxation in room temperature, which may limit the beneficial effects of cold expansion.


2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 265-269
Author(s):  
Yi Fei Wang ◽  
Wei Lian Qu ◽  
Er Nian Zhao ◽  
Bai Feng Ji ◽  
Liang Wang

Fatigue failure of welded structure has been highly concerned in structural engineering field. At present, the numerical simulation method has been actively applied on fatigue life prediction of welded structures. In this paper, welding residual stress of a butt welded plate was simulated by thermal elastic-plastic finite element method, and welding residual stress relaxation behavior under overload was analyzed. Then, the fatigue life of the welding plate under cyclic loading was numerically predicted with considering the welding residual stress and welding residual stress relaxation, and the result was compared with that calculated according to current steel structures design code of China. The results show that, considering fatigue reliability, the fatigue life calculated based on design formulas of the steel design code is more conservative, and numerical method for fatigue life prediction of welded structures, considering the welding residual stress and welding residual stress relaxation, is a feasible method.


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.


2011 ◽  
Vol 462-463 ◽  
pp. 1355-1360
Author(s):  
Omar Suliman Zaroog ◽  
Aidy Ali ◽  
Sahari B. Barkawi

It is important to account for residual stress relaxation phenomenon in the design of the component. Specimens of 2024-T351 aluminium alloy were used in this study. The specimens were shot peened under three different shot peening intensities. Cyclic tests for two load magnitudes were performed for 1, 2, 10, 1000 and 10000 cycles. Residual stresses, microhardness and the cold work percentage were measured at initial state and after each loading cycle for the three shot peening intensities and for the two loads. The study revealed that most of the drop in the residual stress, microhardness and cold work happened in the first cycle are dependent on the applied load.


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