Thermoelastic Analysis of Crack Propagation in AA6082 Friction Stir Welded Joints

2007 ◽  
Vol 561-565 ◽  
pp. 2221-2224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Di Sante ◽  
Pasquale Cavaliere ◽  
Gian Luca Rossi ◽  
Antonio Squillace

Thermolastic Stress Analysis (TSA) has been recently developed as a direct investigating method for the study of the stress field around the crack tip of a cyclically loaded structure. The advantage of using measurement techniques based on the thermoelastic effect lays in the fact that stress intensity factors may be determined based on the effective stress distribution around the crack tip rather than calculated from the crack length and amplitude of cyclic loads. This paper reports results related to fatigue tests on Friction Stir Welded alluminium alloys sheets. Fatigue crack propagation experiments were performed by employing single-edge notched specimens, in tensiontension condition with R=0.1, up to failure. The application of TSA allowed the monitoring of crack formation and growth in real time, providing the actual stress distribution around the crack tip for the different technological parameters used in the welding process. Stress intensity factors were determined based on the TSA data and compared to those calculated using an ABAQUS FE model.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondrej Slávik ◽  
Pavel Hutař ◽  
Michael Berer ◽  
Anja Gosch ◽  
Tomáš Vojtek ◽  
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1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Ghosn

Crack propagation in a rotating inner raceway of a high-speed roller bearing is analyzed using the boundary integral method. The model consists of an edge plate under plane strain condition upon which varying Hertzian stress fields are superimposed. A multidomain boundary integral equation using quadratic elements was written to determine the stress intensity factors KI and KII at the crack tip for various roller positions. The multidomain formulation allows the two faces of the crack to be modeled in two different subregions making it possible to analyze crack closure when the roller is positioned on or close to the crack line. KI and KII stress intensity factors along any direction were computed. These calculations permit determination of crack growth direction along which the average KI times the alternating KI is maximum.


1990 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Ching Ma

The dynamic stress intensity factors of an initially stationary semi-infinite crack in an unbounded linear elastic solid which kinks at some time tf after the arrival of a stress wave is obtained as a function of kinking crack tip velocity v, kinking angle δ, incident stress wave angle α, time t, and the delay time tf. A perturbation method, using the kinking angle δ as the perturbation parameter, is used. The method relies on solving simple problems which can be used with linear superposition to solve the problem of a kinked crack. The solutions can be compared with numerical results and other approximate results for the case of tf = 0 and give excellent agreement for a large range of kinking angles. The elastodynamic stress intensity factors of the kinking crack tip are used to compute the corresponding fluxes of energy into the propagating crack-tip, and these results are discussed in terms of an assumed fracture criterion.


1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Salehizadeh ◽  
N. Saka

The stress intensity factors for short straight and branched subsurface cracks subjected to a Hertzian loading are calculated by the finite element method. The effect of crack face friction on stress intensity factors is considered for both straight and branched cracks. The calculations show that the straight crack is subjected to pure mode II loading, whereas the branched crack is subjected to both mode I and mode II, with ΔKI/ΔKII < 0.25. Although KI is small, it strongly influences KII by keeping the branched crack faces apart. Based on the ΔKII values and Paris’s crack growth model, the number of stress reversals required to grow a crack in a rolling component from an initial threshold length to the final spalling length was estimated. It was found that the crack propagation period is small compared with the expected bearing fatigue life. Therefore, crack propagation is not the rate controlling factor in the fatigue failure of bearings operating under normal loading levels.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 3581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Rae Cho

This paper presents the numerical prediction of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of 2-D inhomogeneous functionally graded materials (FGMs) by an enriched Petrov-Galerkin natural element method (PG-NEM). The overall trial displacement field was approximated in terms of Laplace interpolation functions, and the crack tip one was enhanced by the crack-tip singular displacement field. The overall stress and strain distributions, which were obtained by PG-NEM, were smoothened and improved by the stress recovery. The modified interaction integral M ˜ ( 1 , 2 ) was employed to evaluate the stress intensity factors of FGMs with spatially varying elastic moduli. The proposed method was validated through the representative numerical examples and the effectiveness was justified by comparing the numerical results with the reference solutions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 1856-1861
Author(s):  
Li Jun Lu ◽  
Jian Ping Liu ◽  
Zhong Mei Li

This paper focusing on the crack at hole of guyed-mast’s ear-plate connecting cables and shaft of guyed-mast, adopting two degree of freedom crack propagation model, track the crack propagation according to the increment of the deepest point and the surface point on the crack front of crack at hole of guyed-mast’s ear-plate. The stress intensity factors of I,II and III type crack with given shape and size have been calculated via finite element method, and a numerical method of calculating stress intensity factors with any shape and size crack has been proposed; furthermore according to modified I, II and III type compound crack propagation velocity formula on the basis of Paris crack propagation velocity formula, we analyzed the changing of crack shape parameter a/c with crack size parameter a/T of crack at hole of ear-plate connecting cable and shaft of guyed-mast by numerical integration method and obtained the propagation characteristic.


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