scholarly journals Relaxation Behavior of Residual Stress on Deck-to-Rib Welded Joints by Fatigue Loading in an Orthotropic Bridge Deck

Author(s):  
Wen Zhong ◽  
You-liang Ding ◽  
Yong-sheng Song ◽  
Fang-fang Geng

To accurately evaluate the influence of the actual tension and compression state and stress ratio at the deck-to-rib welding seam position on the fatigue life of a bridge deck, this paper establishes a coupled stress analysis model that considers the welding residual stress and vehicle stress. Taking the Jiangyin Bridge as an example, a qualitative analysis of the fatigue life under the vehicle load and residual stress field is carried out using the proposed method. A case analysis showed that when the residual tensile stress in the welding seam position is superimposed on the mainly tensile cyclic vehicle load stress, the longitudinal stress relaxation exceeds the peak vehicle load stress; significant longitudinal stress relaxation occurred, while the transverse stress relaxation is not significant. However, when the residual tensile stress is superimposed on the mainly compressive cyclic vehicle load stress, the relaxations of both the longitudinal and transverse stresses are not obvious. Compared with the stress state of the welding point under the action of only the vehicle stress, when the coupling effect of the residual stress and vehicle stress is considered, i.e., the loading condition, the fatigue stress state of the weld point has undergone an essential change under cyclic compressive stress, that is, the compressive stress state that does not require a fatigue check is changed to the tensile stress state. Although the fatigue state of the tensile stress cycle condition has not changed, the fatigue life is reduced by varying degrees under either the compressive or tensile condition.

2011 ◽  
Vol 328-330 ◽  
pp. 2211-2214
Author(s):  
Hao Wang ◽  
Xiao Chu Liu ◽  
Chuan Jian Liu ◽  
Wen Xiong Li

Aimed to eliminate the harmful residual tensile stress produced on the surface of bearing ring in the conventional bearing processing and join the automatically strengthen and polished technology together, the paper provide a set of new strengthening-polishing bearings equipment, designed to effectively improve the bearing surface’s quality and produce the surface residual stress which can extend the bearing’s fatigue life. The prototype, based on the pre-theoretical design, has been successfully developed, and now is in field testing.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1136 ◽  
pp. 531-536
Author(s):  
Run Qiang Li ◽  
Peng Yao ◽  
Hao Meng ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
...  

To grind fused silica in ductile mode, it was proposed to repair surface and subsurface micro cracks of fused silica by CO2 laser irradiation. However, excessive residual stress remains on the surface because the melt fused silica on the surface quenches in air. It causes the critical depth of cut for ductile grinding fused silica to be smaller than 0.2μm. To investigate the distribution of the residual stress and look for an optimal manner of irradiation to control residual tensile stress, a numerical model of was built for simulating the dynamic behavior of fused silica when irradiated by CO2 laser. Laser energy absorption, heat transmission, viscoelastic behavior of fused silica and thermally induced stress were considered in the numerical simulation. The results show how the residual stress is formed and distributed. We found that an appropriate control of the temperature field as a function of time and position in the laser process is the key to reduce the residual stress. Therefore, three kinds of processes were proposed to reduce residual tensile stress on the surface of fused silica introduced by laser irradiation. The residual stress distributions of these three processes were compared by numerical analysis to decide a better method of laser irradiation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 670-673
Author(s):  
Jian Luo ◽  
Fei Li ◽  
Ke Liang Xue ◽  
De Jia Liu ◽  
Hai Wei Zhang

The welding technique is one of important technologies on the gear manufacturing process. The special welding temperature cycle is the basic conditions of the welding residual stress appearance in the gear. The large welding residual stress will create the large deformation after the gear welding, which will affect the gear service behavior. In this paper, the finite element method has used to simulate the gear laser welding process. The temperature field and residual stress has described. The research results show that the biggest residual compressive stress appears on the transverse direction of welding region. In the longitudinal direction, the biggest residual tensile stress appears on both sides of the welding seam line. When the laser welding power is 2.4 kW and welding speed is 20mm/s, the no apparent welding deformation’s 20CrMnSi gear can be achieved really.


2006 ◽  
Vol 524-525 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
X.B. Wang

The stress distribution on the midsection of a pure bending beam where tensile strain localization band initiates on the tensile side of the beam and propagates within the beam is analyzed. Using the static equilibrium condition on the section of the midspan of the beam and the assumption of plane section as well as the linear softening constitutive relation beyond the tensile strength, the expressions for the length of tensile strain localization band and the distance from the tip of the band to the neutral axis are derived. After superimposing a linear unloading stress distribution over the initial stress distribution, the residual stress distribution on the midsection of the beam is investigated. In the process of strain localization band’s propagation, strain-softening behavior of the band occurs and neutral axis will shift. When the unloading moment is lower, the length of tensile strain localization band remains a constant since the stress on the base side of the beam is tensile stress. While, for larger unloading moment, with an increase of unloading moment, the length of tensile strain localization band decreases and the distance from the initial neutral axis to the unloading neutral axis increases. The neutral axis of midsection of the beam will shift in the unloading process. The present analysis is applicable to some metal materials and many quasi-brittle geomaterials (rocks and concrete, etc) in which tensile strength is lower than compressive strength. The present investigation is limited to the case of no real crack. Moreover, the present investigation is limited to the case that the length of strain localization band before unloading is less than half of depth of the beam. Otherwise, the residual tensile stress above the elastic neutral axis will be greater than the tensile strength, leading to the further development of tensile strain localization band in the unloading process.


2006 ◽  
Vol 532-533 ◽  
pp. 528-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bang Yan Ye ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Jian Ping Liu ◽  
Xiao Chu Liu ◽  
Xue Zhi Zhao

Theoretical analysis and experiments on bearing race show that a suitable residual compressive stress on roll path of bearing race can prolong its contact fatigue life. However, residual tensile stress is often found on workpiece surface of bearing race. To actively control the residual stress state and improve fatigue life of bearing part, a new method of pre-stress hard cutting is applied. In this paper, the principle of pre-stress hard cutting for bearing race is introduced as well as the experiments on it. In the experiments, residual stress, hardness and roughness of machined surface are measured and analyzed. Moreover, micro-topography and texture characteristics of machined surface are investigated and experimental results are compared with that by grinding. It is found that we can get residual compressive stress and fine quality on machined surface of bearing race by pre-stress hard cutting and increase its productivity as well.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 1265i2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ferreira Fernandes ◽  
Marcelo Augusto Santos Torres ◽  
Maria da Penha Cindra Fonseca ◽  
Carlos Antonio Reis Pereira Baptista

Author(s):  
Cameron Lonsdale ◽  
John Oliver

Recent work using x-ray diffraction techniques has shown that the axial residual stress pattern within the railroad wheel rim is significantly different for as-manufactured AAR Class C wheels vs. AAR Class C wheels that have failed due to a vertical split rim (VSR), and non-failed AAR Class C wheels that have been operating in service. VSRs almost always begin at areas of tread damage, resulting from shelling or spalling, and cracking propagates into the rim section under load. At the locations tested, the as-manufactured wheels have a relatively “flat” axial residual stress profile, compressive but near neutral, caused by the rim quenching operation, while wheels that have been in service have a layer of high axial compressive stress at the tread surface, and a balancing zone of axial tensile stress underneath. The magnitude and direction of this tensile stress is consistent with the crack propagation of a VSR failure. When cracks from the tread surface propagate into this sub-surface axial tensile zone, a VSR can occur under sufficient additional service loading, such as loads caused by in-service wheel/rail impacts from tread damage. Further, softer Class U wheels, removed from service and tested, were found to have a balancing axial tensile stress layer that is deeper below the tread surface than that found in used Class C wheels. This paper describes further efforts to characterize the axial residual stress present in failed VSR and used Class C wheels. Axial residual stress results are obtained near the initiation point of several VSR wheels using x-ray diffraction. Sub-surface axial residual stress patterns are also determined at points of high out-of-roundness for a group of wheels that were tested for TIR (total indicated runout) on the tread surface. Residual stress data and a photo are presented for a wheel rim slice containing a second VSR crack. Additionally, wheel rim ultrasonic testing data, collected by the wheel manufacturer when the wheels were new, are discussed for wheels that have failed due to VSRs and these data are compared to ultrasonic data for non-VSR wheels. Chemistry data are also compared. These data show that the driving force for VSRs is axial residual tensile stress, not a material cleanliness issue.


2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
DongSheng Zhao ◽  
Yulung Liu ◽  
XianDong Wang ◽  
ZhouShang Ji

The finite element method is applied to calculate the welding residual stress for Invar steel of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier's containment system, whereas the x-ray diffraction method is applied to measure the longitudinal welding residual stress of the welding joint. The calculation and measurement results indicate that the measurement results of longitudinal residual stress are lower than the calculation results, but the distribution of both results is consistent with each other. The measurement results indicate that the longitudinal residual stress near the welding seam increased first and then decreased with the increasing distance to the welding seam, and the tensile residual stress converted to the compressive stress gradually. There exists high longitudinal residual stress in the weld seam and the heat-affected zone of Invar steel, and the maximum residual stress is above 200MPa, which may decrease the fatigue life of Invar steel. Thus, the influence of welding residual stress cannot be neglected when you assess the fatigue life of a LNG carrier's containment system under the sloshing impact.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 994-1003
Author(s):  
Ming-Yang Wu ◽  
Wei-Xu Chu ◽  
Ke-Ke Liu ◽  
Shu-Jie Wu ◽  
Yao-Nan Cheng

The aerospace component material GH4169 has low thermal conductivity and poor machinability, resulting in difficulty to guarantee good surface quality after conventional cutting. High-pressure cooling assisted machining technology can effectively improve the problem. In order to study the effect of high-pressure cooling assisted processing technology on the machined surface quality of GH4169, in this paper, Deform-3D was first used to construct a thermo-mechanical coupling finite element model for turning GH4169 under high-pressure cooling conditions, to analyze the turning temperature and surface residual stress. Then, analysis was carried out on the residual stress, work hardening behavior, and metamorphic layer of the GH4169 machined surface, in combination with the turning experiment. The results show that, under the conditions of little feeding and highspeed cutting, the GH4169 turning surface generates residual tensile stress along with both the feeding and turning directions. Moreover, the residual tensile stress gradually turns into the residual compressive stress along the depth direction. The application of high-pressure coolant can reduce the residual tensile stress of the machined surface. As the cooling pressure increases, the residual tensile stress of the machined surface decreases. The coupling effect between thermal deformation and plastic deformation when turning GH4169 can cause the work hardening of the surface, and the hardening degree decreases with the increase of cooling pressure. The high-pressure cooling assisted machining technology can effectively reduce surface plastic deformation, and promote the lessening of grain refinement degree of the material surface, thereby reducing the thickness of the metamorphic layer.


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