scholarly journals Fatigue Damage Map of AZ31B-F Magnesium Alloys under Multiaxial Loading Conditions

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1616
Author(s):  
Vitor Anes ◽  
Luis Reis ◽  
Manuel Freitas

In this work, the mechanical behavior of the AZ31B-F magnesium alloy under cyclic loading is analyzed with the goal of contributing to the advancement of its use in the design of AZ31B-F components and structures. To achieve this goal, an experimental program was implemented to evaluate the cyclic response of the AZ31B-F under specific proportional loads with different stress amplitude ratios. Afterwards, regression methods were applied to extend the experimental data to a wide range of proportional loads. As a result, the AZ31B-F damage map, a material property that stablishes the damage scale between normal and shear stresses for finite life loading regimes, was obtained. In addition, a safety factor was developed for the AZ31B-F material when subjected to proportional loading. The achieved results have a direct application in mechanical design of components/structures made of AZ31B-F contributing to its reliability.

2019 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 17001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cetin Morris Sonsino

Current experiences show that a non-proportional loading of ductile materials such as wrought steels, wrought aluminium or magnesium alloys, not welded or welded, causes a significant fatigue life reduction under an out-of-phase shear strain or shear stress superimposed on a normal strain or normal stress compared with proportional in-phase loading. However, when ductility, here characterised by tensile elongation, is reduced by a heat treatment or by another manufacturing technology such as casting or sintering, the afore-mentioned life reduction is compensated or even inversed, i. e. longer fatigue life results compared with proportional loading. Some actual results, determined with additive manufactured titanium, suggest that microstructural features such as manufacturing-dependent internal defects like microporosities should be considered in addition to the ductility level. This complex life behaviour under non-proportional loading cannot always be estimated. Therefore, in experimental proofs of multiaxial loaded parts, especially safety-critical components or structures, with real or service-like signals, emphasis must be placed on retaining non-proportionalities between loads and stresses/strains, respectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 300 ◽  
pp. 16007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahriar Sharifimehr ◽  
Ali Fatemi

Interaction between normal and shear stresses plays an important role in multiaxial fatigue damage. The aim of this study was to investigate this interaction effect on fatigue behavior of shear failure mode materials under multiaxial loading conditions. In order to model the influence of normal stress on fatigue damage, the present study introduces a method based on the idea that the normal stress acting on the critical plane orientation causes two types of influence, first by affecting roughness induced closure, and second, by a fluctuating normal stress affecting the growth of small cracks in mode II. The summation of these terms could then be used in shear-based critical plane damage models, for example FS damage model, which use normal stress as a secondary input. In order to investigate the effect of the method, constant amplitude load paths with different levels of interaction between the normal and shear stresses were designed for an experimental program. The proposed method was observed to result in improved fatigue life estimations where significant interactions between normal and shear stresses exist.


Metals ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Vitor Anes ◽  
Luis Reis ◽  
Manuel Freitas

In this paper, we investigate the cyclic response of AISI 303 stainless steel subjected to non-proportional loads with different amplitude ratios between shear stresses and normal stresses. Based on the experiments, a relationship between the proportional reference load and a varied range of non-proportional loads was established. To achieve this objective, an experimental program was implemented to evaluate the non-proportional parameter Y. Then, the evolution of this parameter was analyzed with the number of cycles to failure and with the ratio between shear and normal stresses, finally, the evolution of the non-proportional parameter Y was mapped by two functions. The results show that the non-proportional response of the AISI 303 can be estimated using the two functions obtained. This allows the estimation of the relationship between non-proportional and proportional stresses as a function of the number of cycles to failure together with the relationship between shear and normal stresses. The results obtained have direct application in the evaluation of accumulated damage, assessed in real-time, resulting from variable amplitude loading spectra. This is of particular interest for the evaluation of structural health monitoring of structures and mechanical components.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1111 ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorand Kun ◽  
Ion Dumitru ◽  
Daniel Achiriloaiei ◽  
Karla Noemy Kun

The maximum values of normal and shear stresses are the basic parameters which influence directly the initiation and propagation of multiaxial fatigue cracks.Based on the above, the first part of the paper presents an analysis of principal stresses (normal and shear) in case of symmetrical tension-compression loadings with superimposed phase-shifted symmetrical torsion cycles. The influence of stress amplitude ratio and phase shift on the maximum (normal and shear) stresses and on the directions of the planes along which these act is analyzed and graphically represented using stress hodographs.The second part of the paper highlights the possibility of using the maximum value of the normal or shear stress as base parameter for durability studies under multiaxial fatigue, based on existing experimental data. The mentioned data is correlated with the results of an original experimental program carried out by the authors on 41Cr4 steel and conclusions are formulated with regard to the role of maximum shear stress in life-time calculation.


Author(s):  
S. Kweon ◽  
A. J. Beaudoin ◽  
R. J. McDonald

Much of the damage mechanics literature has focused on void growth due to tensile hydrostatic stress. To clarify the effect of combined shear stress and hydrostatic stress on the development of damage, specimens of various geometries were employed in an experimental program to cover a wide range of triaxiality and shear stress. Digital image correlation (DIC) is utilized to measure the fracture strain of the 2D specimens. Experiments are paired with simulations utilizing J2 plasticity theory to complement the experiments and relate the fracture strain with combined hydrostatic and shear stresses. The results display accelerated damage for cases dominated by shear at low triaxiality. Crystal plasticity simulations were carried out using boundary conditions based on the DIC displacement field. These simulations indicate that tensile hydrostatic stress develops due to grain-to-grain interaction.


Author(s):  
Wenwen Shen ◽  
Terry Griffiths ◽  
Mengmeng Xu ◽  
Jeremy Leggoe

For well over a decade it has been widely recognised that existing models and tools for subsea pipeline stability design fail to account for the fact that seabed soils tend to become mobile well before the onset of pipeline instability. Despite ample evidence obtained from both laboratory and field observations that sediment mobility has a key role to play in understanding pipeline/soil interaction, no models have been presented previously which account for the tripartite interaction between the fluid and the pipe, the fluid and the soil, and the pipe and the soil. There are numerous well developed and widely used theories available to model pipe-fluid and pipe-soil interactions. A challenge lies in the way to develop a satisfactory fluid-soil interaction algorithm that has the potential for broad implementation under both ambient and extreme sea conditions due to the complexity of flow in the vicinity of a seabed pipeline or cable. A widely used relationship by Shields [1] links the bedload and suspended sediment transport to the seabed shear stresses. This paper presents details of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research which has been undertaken to investigate the variation of seabed shear stresses around subsea pipelines as a parametric function of pipeline spanning/embedment, trench configuration and wave/current properties using the commercial RANS-based software ANSYS Fluent. The modelling work has been undertaken for a wide range of seabed geometries, including cases in 3D to evaluate the effects of finite span length, span depth and flow attack angle on shear stresses. These seabed shear stresses have been analysed and used as the basis for predicting sediment transport within the Pipe-Soil-Fluid (PSF) Interaction Model [2] in determining the suspended sediment concentration and the advection velocity in the vicinity of pipelines. The model has significant potential to be of use to operators who struggle with conventional stabilisation techniques for the pipelines, such as those which cross Australia’s North West Shelf, where shallow water depths, highly variable calcareous soils and extreme metocean conditions driven by frequent tropical cyclones result in the requirement for expensive and logistically challenging secondary stabilisation measures.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Helling ◽  
A. K. Miller ◽  
M. G. Stout

The multiaxial yield behaviors of 1100-0 aluminum, 70:30 brass, and an overaged 2024 aluminum alloy (2024-T7) have been investigated for a variety of prestress histories involving combinations of normal and shear stresses. Von Mises effective prestrains were in the range of 1.2–32%. Prestress paths were chosen in order to investigate the roles of prestress and prestrain direction on the nature of small-strain offset (ε = 5 × 10−6) yield loci. Particular attention was paid to the directionality, i.e., translation and distortion, of the yield locus. A key result, which was observed in all three materials, was that the final direction of the prestrain path strongly influences the distortions of the yield loci. Differences in the yield locus behavior of the three materials were also observed: brass and the 2024-T7 alloy showed more severe distortions of the yield locus and a longer memory of their entire prestrain history than the 1100-0 aluminum. In addition, more “kinematic” translation of the subsequent yield loci was observed in brass and 2024-T7 than in 1100-0 aluminum. The 2024-T7 differed from the other materials, showing a yield locus which decreased in size subsequent to plastic straining. Finally, the implications of these observations for the constitutive modeling of multiaxial material behavior are discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Perić ◽  
Paul A. Bartley ◽  
Lawrence Davis ◽  
Ali Ulvi Uzer ◽  
Cahit Gürer

AbstractLignin is a coproduct of biofuel and paper industries, which exhibits binding qualities when mixed with water. Lignin is an ideal candidate for a sustainable stabilization of unpaved roads. To this end, an experimental program was devised and carried out to quantify effects of lignin on compaction and early age shear strength behaviors of sand. Samples were prepared by mixing a particular type of coproduct called calcium lignosulfonate (CaL) with sand and water. Based on the extensive analyses of six series of strength tests, it was found that a normalized cohesion increased with an increasing normalized areas ratio. Normalizations were carried out by dividing the cohesion and area ratio by gravimetric CaL content whereby the area ratio was obtained by dividing the portion of the cross-sectional area occupied with lignosulfonate-water (CaL-W) paste by the total cross-sectional area. While the increase in the normalized cohesion eventually leveled out, the cohesion peaked at 6% of CaL. Thus, sand-CaL-water (S-CaL-W) mixes sustained larger shear stresses than dry sand for a range of normal stresses below the limiting normal stress. Consequently, the early age behavior indicates that adding CaL-W to sand is clearly beneficial in the near-surface applications in dry sand.


1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 902-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahbaz Mavaddat ◽  
M. Saeed Mirza

Three computer programs, written in FORTRAN WATFIV, are developed to analyze straight, monolithically cast, symmetric concrete box beams with one, two, or three cells and side cantilevers over a simple span or over two spans with symmetric mid-span loadings. The analysis, based on Maisel's formulation, is performed in three stages. First, the structure is idealized as a beam and the normal and shear stresses are calculated using the simple bending theory and St-Venant's theory of torsion. The secondary stresses arising from torsional and distortional warping and shear lag are calculated in the second and third stages, respectively. The execution times on an AMDAHL 580 system are 0.02, 0.93, and 0.25 s for the three programs, respectively. The stresses arising in each stage of analysis are then superposed to determine the overall response of the box section to the applied loading. The results are compared with Maisel's hand calculations. Key words: bending, bimoment, box beam, computer analysis, FORTRAN, shear, shear lag, thin-walled section, torsion, torsional and distortional warping.


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