scholarly journals Influence of stress ratio on residual stress evolution near cold-expanded hole due to low-cycle fatigue by crack compliance data

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (55) ◽  
pp. 174-186
Author(s):  
Andrey Chernov ◽  
Sviatoslav Eleonsky ◽  
Vladimir Pisarev

Modified version of the crack compliance method is used for determination of stress intensity factor (SIF) related to narrow notches emanating from cold-expanded holes. These notches are inserted at different stages of low-cycle fatigue under constant external load. It is shown how residual SIF values, generated by residual stress field influence, can be separated from total experimental SIF values. Residual SIF values, obtained at different stage of low-cycle fatigue with the same stress range Δσ  = 350 MPa but different stress  R = –0.4 and  R = –1.0, provide quantitative description of residual stress evolution near cold-expanded hole. It shown that maximal residual stress relaxation of order 20 per cent occurs at 95 lifetime per cent for both loading programs.

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (10) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
S. I. Eleonsky ◽  
Yu. G. Matvienko ◽  
V. S. Pisarev ◽  
A. V. Chernov

A new destructive method for quantitative determination of the damage accumulation in the vicinity of a stress concentrator has been proposed and verified. Increase of damage degree in local area with a high level of the strain gradient was achieved through preliminary low-cycle pull-push loading of plane specimens with central open holes. The above procedure is performed for three programs at the same stress range (333.3 MPa) and different stress ratio values 0.33, – 0.66 and – 1.0, and vice versa for two programs at the same stress ratio – 0.33 and different stress range 333.3 and 233.3 MPa. This process offers a set of the objects to be considered with different degree of accumulated fatigue damages. The key point of the developed approach consists in the fact that plane specimens with open holes are tested under real operation conditions without a preliminary notching of the specimen initiating the fatigue crack growth. The measured parameters necessary for a quantitative description of the damage accumulation process were obtained by removing the local volume of the material in the form of a sequence of narrow notches at a constant level of external tensile stress. External load can be considered an amplifier enhancing a useful signal responsible for revealing the material damage. The notch is intended for assessing the level of fatigue damage, just as probe holes are used to release residual stress energy in the hole drilling method. Measurements of the deformation response caused by local removing of the material are carried out by electronic speckle-pattern interferometry at different stages of low-cycle fatigue. The transition from measured in-plane displacements to the values of the stress intensity factor (SIF) and the T-stress was carried out on the basis of the relations of linear fracture mechanics. It was shown that the normalized dependences of the stress intensity factor on the durability percentage for the first notch (constructed for four programs of cyclic loading with different parameters), reflect the effect of the stress ratio and stress range of the loading cycle on the rate of damage accumulation. The data were used to obtain the explicit form of the damage accumulation function that quantitatively describes damage accumulation process. The functions were constructed for different stress ratios and stress ranges.


2014 ◽  
Vol 996 ◽  
pp. 808-813
Author(s):  
Elias Merhy ◽  
Ngadia Taha Niane ◽  
Bastien Weber ◽  
Philippe Bristiel

Metal Active Gas (MAG) welding process of steel sheets generates, in the vicinity of the welding joint, the well-known Heat Affected Zone (HAZ) in which the material presents more microstructural defects compared to the original metal. Since high cycle fatigue is largely dependent on the material microstructure features, the HAZ is considered as the weakest zone under high cycle fatigue loading. In addition, the welding causes, in the Heat Affected Zone, irreversible plastic strains that induce important residual stress fields in this critical zone of the structure. Therefore, in order to properly predict the high cycle fatigue life time of the welded automotive components, it is of primordial importance to first identify and then consider, if necessary, the welding induced residual stress field in the structure modeling. In this work, it is found that residual stresses have non-negligible impact on high cycle fatigue lifetime, while its effect is minor in the low cycle fatigue domain.


Author(s):  
Nazrul Islam ◽  
Tasnim Hassan

Earlier studies [1] showed that the ANSYS software package customized with an advanced rate-independent constitutive model was unable to simulate some of the low-cycle fatigue responses of elbow components. Hence, simulations are performed to investigate the influence of manufacturing and welding residual stresses on elbow low-cycle fatigue responses. The sequentially coupled thermo-mechanical finite element analysis is performed to determine the initial residual stress states in elbows due to the elbow manufacturing processes and welding of elbows to straight pipes. Real-time girth-welding processes are taken into account to simulate the welding induced residual stress field. Incorporating these initial residual stresses in the computations, low-cycle fatigue and strain ratcheting responses are simulated by ANSYS. The simulation responses demonstrate that the influence of manufacturing and welding residual stresses in elbows on its low-cycle fatigue responses is negligible. Hence, the question remains what is missing in the simulation models that some of the elbow low-cycle fatigue responses cannot be simulated.


2011 ◽  
Vol 681 ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Farajian ◽  
Thomas Nitschke-Pagel ◽  
Klaus Dilger

Residual stress relaxation of butt-welded small scale steel specimens under static and cyclic mechanical loading was investigated. The experiments were carried out on different types of steel with yield strengths between 300 and 1200MPa. The x-ray and neutron diffraction techniques were applied for the residual stresses analysis. The maximum values of initial residual stresses were measured at the weld bead centerline and were not as frequently assumed as high as the yield strength of the material. From fatigue point of view the internal stresses at the weld toe are of importance. It was observed that only a fraction of maximum residual stress accommodated in the weld bead centerline, is available at the weld toe. Under static tensile and compressive loading by increasing the load level the residual stress field relaxes continuously. The relaxation sets in with delay under compression since the tensile residual stresses should be first overcome. Under cyclic loading, once the first relaxation takes place further cyclic relaxation is either not considerable or continues moderately depending on loading conditions. In high cycle fatigue the residual stresses are stable until 2x106 cycles. In low cycle fatigue however the variation of the residual stresses continues until failure. This variation is partly related to crack initiation and propagation. The von Misses failure criterion with the local yield strength as material resistance against plastic deformation was able to describe the relaxation of surface welding residual stresses in low cycle fatigue.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (56) ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Sviatoslav Eleonsky ◽  
Vladimir Pisarev ◽  
Mikhail Zajtsev ◽  
Mikhail Zichenkov ◽  
Marat Abdullin

Experimental method for a characterization of high-cycle fatigue evolution of residual stress near cold-expanded hole is developed and implemented. The technique is based on simultaneous measurements of deformation response to narrow notch, inserted in residual stress field, on opposite specimen’s faces by electronic speckle-pattern interferometry (ESPI). Two-side measurements of notch opening displacements are performed when a single notch, emanating from cold-expanded hole edge, is inserted. The transition from in-plane displacement component to residual stress intensity factor (SIF) values follows from the relationships of modified version of the crack compliance method. The approach provides a difference in residual stress values referred to mandrel entrance and exit surface. Notches are inserted at different stages of low-cycle fatigue without applying external load. The results obtained describe fine nuances of residual stress evolution, which cannot be considered as monotonic relaxation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Bokuchava ◽  
V. V. Luzin ◽  
J. Schreiber ◽  
Yu. V. Taran

Austenitic stainless steels are widely used because of their high corrosion resistance and toughness. The influence of the applied cyclic load on the mechanical properties of the material is of great current interest. In order to investigate residual stress evolution a series of the austenitic steel samples (X6CrNiTi1810) with different degrees of low cycle fatigue was studied. Martensitic phase formation was observed at different degrees of low cycle fatigue. Residual stresses, microstresses in both phases, as well as martensitic precipitation volume fractions, were estimated. Usually after plastic deformation the martensite phase produces a structure of oriented plates or laths. Therefore martensite texture formation during phase transition can be expected. Indeed the registered neutron diffraction spectra from austenitic fatigued samples show texture presence and its variation in dependence of the fatigue degree. The attempt to consider the texture evolution in dependence of fatigue degree and its influence on the residual stresses was made.


Author(s):  
Rongqiao Wang ◽  
Da Li ◽  
Dianyin Hu ◽  
Yang Hai ◽  
Jun Song

Turbine disks in powder metallurgy (PM) superalloy have been widely used in advanced aeroengines. The production of PM superalloy turbine disks involves a series of heat treatment processes, which would inevitably create residual stresses. It has been proved that the low cycle fatigue (LCF) life of the turbine disk is affected by the residual stresses. The computational simulation of heat treatment is considered as an effective way to evaluate the residual stresses in a turbine disk. A finite element software was used to simulate the heat-treatment processes of a FGH95 turbine disk to obtain the residual stress field. To investigate the relaxation of residual stress in FGH95, smooth bar specimens were measured by X-ray diffraction before and after being loaded. Modified by the residual stresses, SWT model is used to predict the low cycle fatigue life of the turbine disk modified by the residual stress field obtained from the simulation of heat treatment. By the comparison between the prediction modified by the residual stress and the prediction without modification, a considerable decrease in low cycle fatigue life is indicated.


2016 ◽  
Vol 853 ◽  
pp. 246-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Fang ◽  
Qian Hua Kan ◽  
Guo Zheng Kang ◽  
Wen Yi Yan

Experiments on U75V rail steel were carried out to investigate the cyclic feature, ratcheting behavior and low-cycle fatigue under both strain- and stress-controlled loadings at room temperature. It was found that U75V rail steel shows strain amplitude dependent cyclic softening feature, i.e., the responded stress amplitude under strain-controlled decreases with the increasing number of cycles and reaches a stable value after about 20th cycle. Ratcheting strain increases with an increasing stress amplitude and mean stress, except for stress ratio, and the ratcheting strain in failure also increases with an increasing stress amplitude, mean stress and stress ratio. The low-cycle fatigue lives under cyclic straining decrease linearly with an increasing strain amplitude, the fatigue lives under cyclic stressing decrease with an increasing mean stress except for zero mean stress, and decrease with an increasing stress amplitude. Ratcheting behavior with a high mean stress reduces fatigue life of rail steel by comparing fatigue lives under stress cycling with those under strain cycling. Research findings are helpful to evaluate fatigue life of U75V rail steel in the railways with passenger and freight traffic.


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