Assessment of the Crack Compliance Method and the Introduction of Residual Stresses by Shot Peening Using the Finite Element Method

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 109-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Urriolagoitia-Sosa ◽  
E. Zaldivar-González ◽  
J.M. Sandoval Pineda ◽  
J. García-Lira

The interest on the application of the shot peening process to arrest and/or delay crack growth is rising. The main effect of the shot peening technique is to introduce a residual stress field that increases the working life of mechanical components. In this paper, it is presented the numerical simulation (FEM) of the shot peening process and the effect of introducing a residual stress field. Besides, the consequence of changing the sizes of the impacting ball is analyzed. This work also used the Crack Compliance Method (CCM) for the determination of residual stresses in beams subjected to a numerical simulation of a shot peening process. The numerical results obtained provide a quantitative demonstration of the effect of shot peening on the introduction of residual stresses by using different sizes of impacting balls and assess the efficiency of the CCM.

2010 ◽  
Vol 652 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
M.K. Khan ◽  
Michael E. Fitzpatrick ◽  
L.E. Edwards ◽  
S.V. Hainsworth

The residual strain field around the scratches of 125µm depth and 5µm root radius have been measured from the Synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Scratches were produced using different tools in fine-grained aluminium alloy AA 5091. Residual stresses up to +1700 micro-strains were measured at the scratch tip for one tool but remained up to only +1000 micro-strains for the other tool scratch. The load-displacement curves obtained from nanoindentation were used to determine the residual stresses around the scratches. It was found that the load-displacement curves are sensitive to any local residual stress field present and behave according to the type of residual stresses. This combination of nanoindentation and synchrotron X-rays has been proved highly effective for the study of small-scale residual stresses around the features such as scratches.


2013 ◽  
Vol 433-435 ◽  
pp. 1898-1901
Author(s):  
Li Juan Cao ◽  
Shou Ju Li ◽  
Zi Chang Shangguan

Shot peening is a manufacturing process intended to give components the final shape and to introduce a compressive residual state of stress inside the material in order to increase fatigue life. The modeling and simulation of the residual stress field resulting from the shot peening process are proposed. The behaviour of the peened target material is supposed to be elastic plastic with bilinear characteristics. The results demonstrated the surface layer affected by compressive residual stresses is very thin and the peak is located on the surface.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24-25 ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Urriolagoitia-Sosa ◽  
B. Romero-Ángeles ◽  
Luis Héctor Hernández-Gómez ◽  
G. Urriolagoitia-Calderón ◽  
Juan Alfonso Beltrán-Fernández ◽  
...  

The understanding of how materials fail is still today a fundamental research problem for scientist and engineers. The main concern is the assessment of the necessary conditions to propagate a crack that will eventually lead to failure. Nevertheless, this kind of analysis tends to be more complicated, when a prior history in the material is taken into consideration and it will be extremely important to recognize all the factors involved in this process. In this work, a numerical simulation of the introduction of residual stresses, which change the crack initiation conditions, in a modified compact tensile specimen to change the condition of crack initiation is presented. Four numerical analyses were carried out; an initial evaluation was performed in a specimen without a crack and it was used for the estimation of a residual stress field produced by an overload; three more cases were simulated and a crack was introduced in each specimen (1 mm, 5 mm and 10 mm, respectively). The overload was then applied to set up a residual stress field into the component; furthermore, in each case the crack compliance method (CCM) was applied to measure the induced residual stress field. By performing this numerical simulation, the accuracy of the crack compliance method can be evaluated. On the other hand, elastic-plastic finite element analysis was utilized for the residual stress estimation. The numerical analysis was based on the mechanical properties of a biocompatible material (AISI 316L). The obtained results provided significant data about diverse factors, like; the manner in which a residual stress field could modify the crack initiation conditions, the convenient set up for induction of a beneficial residual stresses field, as well as useful information that can be applied for the experimental implementation of this research.


Author(s):  
Dieter Siegele ◽  
Marcus Brand

The inner surface of reactor pressure vessels is protected against corrosion by an austenitic cladding. Generally, the cladding is welded on the ferritic base metal with two layers to avoid sub-clad cracks and to improve the microstructure of the cladding material. On the other hand, due to the cladding process and the difference of the thermal expansion coefficient of the austenitic cladding and the ferritic base material residual stresses act in the component. This residual stress field is important for assessing crack postulates in the cladding or subclad flaws in the base metal. For the determination of the residual stress field, plates of RPV steel were cladded and heat treated representative to the RPV relevant conditions. During the cladding process the temperature and distortion were measured as basis for the validation of the finite element simulations. The numerical simulation was performed with the finite element code SYSWELD. The heat source of the model was calibrated on the measured temperature profile. In the analysis, the temperature dependent material properties as well as the transformation behavior of the ferritic base metal were taken into account. The calculated residual stresses show tensile stresses in the cladding followed by compressive stresses in the base metal that are in agreement with measurements with X-ray diffraction technique.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 358-364
Author(s):  
Chunmei Zhao ◽  
Changjun Shi ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Changchun Zhao ◽  
Yukui Gao ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 524-525 ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Cochennec ◽  
Emmanuelle Rouhaud ◽  
Delphine Retraint ◽  
Sébastien Rouquette ◽  
Arjen Roos

Shot-peening is a surface treatment widely used in the industry to improve fatigue life of mechanical components by introducing compressive residual stresses. Ultrasonic shot-peening is a recent development of this process. While the classical shot-peening process uses pneumatic energy to project the shots, ultrasonic peening uses high-power ultrasounds. This energy source allows the use of larger shots projected at lower velocity as compared to classical shot-peening. This work aims at studying the mechanical response (restitution coefficient, residual stress field) of a surface impacted by a shot at low velocity using the finite element method and experimental analysis. This paper presents the simulation of a single elastic steel shot normally impacting an Aluminum alloy plate considered to exhibit a linear-elastic behavior and non-linear isotropic work hardening characteristics. The numerical simulations are carried out for different impact velocities in order to take into account the heterogeneous shot velocity field observed in an ultrasonic shot-peening chamber. We compare the simulated rebound energy and the indentation profiles obtained for different impact velocities to experimental results. The simulated residual stress field topology shows a strong dependence on the shot velocity. While numerical results obtained at high impact energy agree well with literature results, the residual stress distribution simulated for low impact energies shows a tensile layer below the impacted area. The restitution coefficients and the indentation profiles compare well with the experiments.


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 1195-1212
Author(s):  
B. Lennart Josefson ◽  
R. Bisschop ◽  
M. Messaadi ◽  
J. Hantusch

Abstract The aluminothermic welding (ATW) process is the most commonly used welding process for welding rails (track) in the field. The large amount of weld metal added in the ATW process may result in a wide uneven surface zone on the rail head, which may, in rare cases, lead to irregularities in wear and plastic deformation due to high dynamic wheel-rail forces as wheels pass. The present paper studies the introduction of additional forging to the ATW process, intended to reduce the width of the zone affected by the heat input, while not creating a more detrimental residual stress field. Simulations using a novel thermo-mechanical FE model of the ATW process show that addition of a forging pressure leads to a somewhat smaller width of the zone affected by heat. This is also found in a metallurgical examination, showing that this zone (weld metal and heat-affected zone) is fully pearlitic. Only marginal differences are found in the residual stress field when additional forging is applied. In both cases, large tensile residual stresses are found in the rail web at the weld. Additional forging may increase the risk of hot cracking due to an increase in plastic strains within the welded area.


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