The Effect of Residual Stress on Fatigue Life of Welded Cruciform Joints of 16MnR for Train Bogie

2013 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 695-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Xia Yu ◽  
Bo Lin He ◽  
Jian Ping Shi ◽  
Jing Liu

The weld toe surface and its nearby area of welded cruciform joints were treated by ultrasonic impact. Under the same stress concentration and after heat treatment to eliminate residual stress, the effect of residual stress on the fatigue life of joint was researched. The fatigue tests are performed on the joints of 16MnR both for the un-treated and treated joints by using EHF-EM200K2-070-1A type fatigue tester when the load ratio is 0.1, frequency is 10Hz. The experimental results indicate that the severe plastic deformation in the vicinity of weld toe surface was formed by impact treating for 2 minutes, the thickness of the plastic deformation layer is about 60μm. Residual tensile stress in the weld toe surface can be changed to residual compressive stress by impact treatment. The fatigue life of welded joint is 0.260×106cycle, and the fatigue life of treated joint is 0.499×106cycle. Compared to the un-treated joint, the fatigue life of treated joint has been increased by 91.92%. The residual stress contributed to fatigue life is about 16%. Residual stress has great effect on the fatigue life of welded cruciform joint.

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengtao Liu ◽  
Runze Yu ◽  
Xinhuan Gao ◽  
Guanzhen Zhang

In this paper, the effect of surface ultrasonic rolling treatment (SURT) on surface properties of T4003 cold metal transfer (CMT) welded joints was studied. Surface topography and microstructure changes of the welded joint surface before and after SURT were observed by optical microscope and scanning electron microscope. The hardness and residual stress distribution of welded joint were measured by a microhardness tester and X-ray diffractometer. The change of corrosion resistance of welded joints was studied by electrochemical polarization curve measurement. The results show that surface roughness (Ra) of the weld zone, heat affect zone (HAZ), and base metal after SURT was reduced to 0.320 μm, 0.156 μm, and 0.227 μm, respectively, and surface morphology became smooth. The plastic deformation layer and working hardening layer were formed at the welded joint. The degree of plastic deformation of the weld zone was more serious than that in the base metal, and grains in weld zone was obviously refined. The thickness of plastic deformation layer was about 100 μm. The surface hardness in the weld zone was highest, which is about 420 HV. The refinement of grains and the increase of surface hardness can improve the fatigue life of welded joint. After SURT, the residual stress in the welded joint changes from residual tensile stress to residual compressive stress, which can also improve fatigue life of the welded joint. Surface corrosion resistance of welded joints after SURT was improved due to smooth surface and the formation of fine grains layer.


2011 ◽  
Vol 382 ◽  
pp. 400-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Xia Yu ◽  
Bo Lin He ◽  
Huang Huang Yu ◽  
Jian Ping Shi

Surface treatment was carried out on the cruciform joint of 16MnR steel by using the HJ-II-type ultrasonic impact machine. The impact current is 1.2A, impact amplitude is 30 microns. Fatigue experiments were carried out for impact treated specimen, impact treated and heattreated specimen and un-heattreated specimen. The effect of ultrasonic impact on the hardness of the weldment and weld toe was researched. The experimental results show that the fatigue life of the cruciform joint of 16MnR steel can be significantly improved through the ultrasonic impact treatment and the hardness of weld toe can also be promoted. Compared to the sample without impact treatment, its fatigue life was increased 692.52%. The hardness of weld toe was increased 31%. Compared to the sample with heat treatment, the fatigue life of impact specimen was increased 316.67%. Compared to the sample without impact treatment, the fatigue life of impact and heat treated specimen was increased 218.69%.


2013 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 689-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Lin He ◽  
Ying Xia Yu ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Jian Ping Shi

The weld seam and weld toe surface were treated by ultrasonic impact method. The contrast corrosion tests were performed in 3.5% NaCl aqueous solution both for the un-treated and treated joint. The experimental results indicate that the severe plastic deformation on the surface of weld seam and weld toe were formed by ultrasonic impact for different time, the maximum depth of the plastic deformation layer is about 300μm. Residual tensile stress in the surface of weld seam and weld toe can be changed to residual compressive stress by impact treatment, and the grain in the surface of welded joint could be refined. Compared to the un-treated joint, when the impact current is 1.2A and 1.5A, respectively, the corrosion rate of treated joint was reduced by 22.67%, 54.59%, 43.99% and 33.92%, 56.54%, 49.29%, respectively for 10, 20 and 30 min. treating. The corrosion resistance of welded joint has a certain relationship with the residual stress on the surface of welded joint. The ultrasonic impact treatment has distinct effect on the corrosion resistance of 16MnR welded joint.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 168781402110112
Author(s):  
Li Xun ◽  
Wang Ziming ◽  
Yang Shenliang ◽  
Guo Zhiyuan ◽  
Zhou Yongxin ◽  
...  

Titanium alloy Ti1023 is a typical difficult-to-cut material. Tool wear is easy to occur in machining Ti1023, which has a significant negative effect on surface integrity. Turning is one of the common methods to machine Ti1023 parts and machined surface integrity has a direct influence on the fatigue life of parts. To control surface integrity and improve anti-fatigue behavior of Ti1023 parts, it has an important significance to study the influence of tool wear on the surface integrity and fatigue life of Ti1023 in turning. Therefore, the effect of tool wear on the surface roughness, microhardness, residual stress, and plastic deformation layer of Ti1023 workpieces by turning and low-cycle fatigue tests were studied. Meanwhile, the influence mechanism of surface integrity on anti-fatigue behavior also was analyzed. The experimental results show that the change of surface roughness caused by worn tools has the most influence on anti-fatigue behavior when the tool wear VB is from 0.05 to 0.25 mm. On the other hand, the plastic deformation layer on the machined surface could properly improve the anti-fatigue behavior of specimens that were proved in the experiments. However, the higher surface roughness and significant surface defects on surface machined utilizing the worn tool with VB = 0.30 mm, which leads the anti-fatigue behavior of specimens to decrease sharply. Therefore, to ensure the anti-fatigue behavior of parts, the value of turning tool wear VB must be rigorously controlled under 0.30 mm during finishing machining of titanium alloy Ti1023.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 2742
Author(s):  
Furong Chen ◽  
Chenghao Liu

To improve the loose structure and serious porosity of (Al–Zn–Mg–Cu) 7075 aluminum alloy laser-welded joints, aging treatment, double-sided ultrasonic impact treatment (DSUIT), and a combination of aging and DSUIT (A–DSUIT) were used to treat joints. In this experiment, the mechanism of A–DSUIT on the microstructure and properties of welded joints was analyzed. The microstructure of the welded joints was observed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The hardness and tensile properties of the welded components under the different processes were examined via Vickers hardness test and a universal tensile testing machine. The results showed that, after the aging treatment, the dendritic structure of the welded joints transformed into an equiaxed crystal structure. Moreover, the residual tensile stress generated in the welding process was weakened, and the hardness and tensile strength were significantly improved. After DSUIT, a plastic deformation layer of a certain thickness was generated from the surface downward, and the residual compressive stress was introduced to a certain depth of the joint. However, the weld zone unaffected by DSUIT still exhibited residual tensile stress. The inner microhardness of the joint surface improved; the impact surface hardness was the largest and gradually decreased inward to the weld zone base metal hardness, with a small improvement in the tensile strength. Compared with the single treatment process, the microstructural and mechanical properties of the welded joint after A–DSUIT were comprehensively improved. The microhardness and tensile strength of the welded joint reached 200 HV and 615 MPa, respectively, for an increase of 45.8% and 61.8%, respectively. Observation of the fractures of the tensile specimens under the different treatment processes showed that the fractures before the aging treatment were mainly ductile fractures while those after were mainly brittle fractures. After DSUIT of the welded joints, a clear and dense plastic deformation layer was observed in the fracture of the tensile specimens and effectively improved the tensile properties of the welded joints. Under the EBSD characterization, the larger the residual compressive stress near the ultrasonic impact surface, the smaller the grain diameter and misorientation angle, and the lower the texture strength. Finally, after A–DSUIT, the hardness and tensile properties improved the most.


Author(s):  
Xian-Kui Zhu ◽  
Rick Wang

Mechanical dents often occur in transmission pipelines, and are recognized as one of major threats to pipeline integrity because of the potential fatigue failure due to cyclic pressures. With matured in-line-inspection (ILI) technology, mechanical dents can be identified from the ILI runs. Based on ILI measured dent profiles, finite element analysis (FEA) is commonly used to simulate stresses and strains in a dent, and to predict fatigue life of the dented pipeline. However, the dent profile defined by ILI data is a purely geometric shape without residual stresses nor plastic deformation history, and is different from its actual dent that contains residual stresses/strains due to dent creation and re-rounding. As a result, the FEA results of an ILI dent may not represent those of the actual dent, and may lead to inaccurate or incorrect results. To investigate the effect of residual stress or plastic deformation history on mechanics responses and fatigue life of an actual dent, three dent models are considered in this paper: (a) a true dent with residual stresses and dent formation history, (b) a purely geometric dent having the true dent profile with all stress/strain history removed from it, and (c) a purely geometric dent having an ILI defined dent profile with all stress/strain history removed from it. Using a three-dimensional FEA model, those three dents are simulated in the elastic-plastic conditions. The FEA results showed that the two geometric dents determine significantly different stresses and strains in comparison to those in the true dent, and overpredict the fatigue life or burst pressure of the true dent. On this basis, suggestions are made on how to use the ILI data to predict the dent fatigue life.


2006 ◽  
Vol 321-323 ◽  
pp. 636-639
Author(s):  
Sang Young Kim ◽  
Hyung Ick Kim ◽  
Chang Sung Seok ◽  
Jae Kwan Lee ◽  
Jin Yong Mo ◽  
...  

Used pipes in various mechanisms and structures are produced from raw material by extruding and drawing. The properties such as yield strength, tensile strength, and elongation of a pipe produced by these methods are different from the properties of their raw material. But designers use the properties of the raw material because the actual properties of the pipes are difficult to obtain from testing. Also, the pipe is used after it has been bent in a complex manner and cut to fit it to mechanisms and structures. The bending process, especially, induces deformation of the pipe’s section and residual stress, which are involved in the plastic deformation of the bended pipes. This residual stress affects the pipe’s properties, including its fatigue life. Therefore, it is very important to understand the residual stress of a material. But, the distribution of residual stress of a U-shaped pipe, which is examined in this study, is very complicated and cannot be measured exactly.


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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 4748-4751
Author(s):  
Bo Lin He ◽  
Ying Xia Yu ◽  
Si Yong Lei ◽  
Jian Ping Shi

Surface treatment was carried out on the welded cruciform joint of P355NL1 steel by using the HJ-II-type ultrasonic impact machine. The ultrasonic impact current is 1.5A, the impact amplitude is 20 microns and ultrasonic impacting time is 5min. Tensile test was carried out for both treated specimen and un-treated specimen. The fracture observed with the scanning electron microscope of 6360LA type. The experimental results show that although the compressive residual stress can be obtained in the surface of weld toe area, and the grain size in the surface of welded cruciform joint can be refined, but the mechanical property of the welded cruciform joint of P355NL1 steel can not be improved through the ultrasonic impact treatment. The main reason is that the ultrasonic impact layer is only 70um, it is to thin to compared to the thickness of the specimen.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 7170-7180
Author(s):  
S. Mazlan ◽  
N. Yidris ◽  
R. Zahari ◽  
E. Gires ◽  
D.L.A. Majid ◽  
...  

The change in material properties at low temperature has always been one of the concerned design factors in aircraft industries. The wings and fuselage are repeatedly exposed to sub zero temperature during cruising at high altitude. In this study, fatigue tests were conducted on standard flat specimens of aluminum 2024-T3 at room temperature and at -30 °C. The monotonic and cyclic loading tests were conducted using MTS 810 servo hydraulic machine equipped with a cooling chamber. The monotonic tests were conducted at a crosshead speed rate of 1 mm/min and the cyclic tests at a frequency of 10 Hz with a load ratio of 0.1. The experimental data obtained, such as the yield strength, ultimate strength and S-N curve were used as the input parameters in ANSYS Workbench 16.1. This close agreement demonstrates that the isotropic model in ANSYS workbench is essential in predicting fatigue life. The increase in stress parameter causes fatigue life to decrease. Besides, the decrease in temperature causes the total fatigue life to increase.


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