Residual Stress Effects and Predicting Crack Growth in Weldments

2016 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 432-435
Author(s):  
Petr Brož
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Limit Load ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
R Ratio ◽  
Fatigue And Fracture ◽  
Stress Zone ◽  
Fracture Assessment

It is explained which way a welded zone integrity has to concentrate on a number of inconveniences resulting from the weld behaviour. These problems will be discussed for evaluation of fatigue and fracture. Going after the fracture assessment address, the effect of weld configuration on stress intensity factor is fixing. A pertinent input to these methods is the limit load. In the view of the prominence of residual stresses in weldments, the interpretation of combined primary and secondary stresses in fracture evaluation is most desirable to be described in great detail. The influence of residual stresses on R – ratio is given. The weldment testing methods involve the techniques for definite microstructural regions and elimination of residual stress effects on fracture toughness measuring. For FCG rate predicting, the initial residual stresses are put into numerical models and residual stress distribution is simulated, incorporating crack growth. The technique is suggested for cracks initiating within a weld, namely in tensile residual stress zone.

Consistent Treatment of Weld Residual Stresses in Fracture Assessment

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dong ◽  
J. K. Hong
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Size ◽  
Stress Distributions ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Fracture Assessment ◽  
Girth Welds ◽  
Consistent Treatment

Over the last decade, as more in-depth understanding of weld residual stresses is being achieved, particularly of their characteristic distributions in pressure vessel and piping components, the residual stress effects on stress intensities at welds are becoming better understood. In this paper, some of the important residual stress characteristics are first identified in the form of either “bending” dominated or “self-equilibrating” dominated types for girth welds. The applicability in other joint configurations in welded structures is then discussed, with a collection of validated residual stress distributions. The characterization of both “bending” and “self-equilibrating” types in residual stress distributions provides a consistent framework for stress intensity factor considerations in either fracture and fatigue assessment. The contribution of weld residual stresses to stress intensities at welds are shown to be in the form of K solutions under displacement controlled conditions. The “bending” type residual stresses provide a longer range of influence than “self-equilibrating” type in K solutions. The contribution of “self-equilibrating” type residual stresses to stress intensities is shown to be dominant when crack size is small, while the contribution of the “bending” type dominant for crack size up to a much large size with respect to wall thickness.

Influence of Weld Residual Stresses on Ductile Crack Behavior in AISI Type 316LN Stainless Steel Weld Joint

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sai Deepak Namburu ◽  
Lakshmana Rao Chebolu ◽  
A. Krishnan Subramanian ◽  
Raghu Prakash ◽  
Sasikala Gomathy
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Weld Joint ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Growth Behavior ◽  
Welding Residual Stress ◽  
Crack Growth Behavior ◽  
Ductile Crack ◽  
Ductile Crack Growth

Welding residual stress is one of the main concerns in the process of fabrication and operation because of failures in welded steel joints due to its potential effect on structural integrity. This work focuses on the effect of welding residual stress on the ductile crack growth behavior in AISI 316LN welded CT specimens. Two-dimensional plane strain model has been used to simulate the CT specimen. X-ray diffraction technique is used to obtain residual stress value at the SS 316LN weld joint. The GTN model has been employed to estimate the ductile crack growth behavior in the CT-specimen. Results show that residual stresses influence the ductile crack growth behavior. The effect of residual stress has also been investigated for cases with different initial void volume fraction, crack lengths.

The Effect of Residual Stresses on the Fracture Resistance of Ductile Steels

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel P. O’Dowd ◽  
Yuebao Lei
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Stress Field ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Opening ◽  
Stress Distributions ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Fatigue And Fracture ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Fracture Performance

Tensile residual stresses, such as those generated by welding, act as crack opening stresses and can have a negative effect on the fatigue and fracture performance of a component. In this work the effect of representative residual stress distributions on the fracture behaviour of a ferritic steel has been examined using finite element analysis. A Gurson-type void growth model is used to model the effect of ductile tearing ahead of a crack. For the cases examined it is seen that a tensile residual stress field may lead to a reduction in the toughness of the material (as represented by the J-resistance curve). The observed difference in toughness can be linked to the different constraint levels in the specimens due to the introduction of the residual stress field and can be rationalised through the use of a two parameter, J–Q approach.

Weld Residual Stress and Fracture Behavior of NASA Layered Pressure Vessels

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Brust ◽  
R. H. Dodds ◽  
J. Hobbs ◽  
B. Stoltz ◽  
D. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Fracture Behavior ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Weld Residual Stress ◽  
Proof Testing ◽  
Fracture Assessment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Initial Results

Abstract NASA has hundreds of non-code layered pressure vessel (LPV) tanks that hold various gases at pressure. Many of the NASA tanks were fabricated in the 1950s and 1960s and are still in use. An agency wide effort is in progress to assess the fitness for continued service of these vessels. Layered tanks typically consist of an inner liner/shell (often about 12.5 mm thick) with different layers of thinner shells surrounding the inner liner each with thickness of about 6.25-mm. The layers serve as crack arrestors for crack growth through the thickness. The number of thinner layers required depends on the thickness required for the complete vessel with most tanks having between 4 and 20 layers. Cylindrical layers are welded longitudinally with staggering so that the weld heat affected zones do not overlap. The built-up shells are then circumferentially welded together or welded to a header to complete the tank construction. This paper presents some initial results which consider weld residual stress and fracture assessment of some layered pressure vessels and is a small part of the much larger fitness for service evaluation of these tanks. This effort considers the effect of weld residual stresses on fracture for an inner layer longitudinal weld. All fabrication steps are modeled, and the high-level proof testing of the vessels has an important effect on the final WRS state. Finally, cracks are introduced, and service loading applied to determine the effects of WRS on fracture.

scholarly journals Crack Growth Behavior in a Residual Stress Field for Vessel Type Structures

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dong ◽  
G. Rawls
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Surface Crack ◽  
Growth Behavior ◽  
Welding Parameters ◽  
Crack Growth Behavior ◽  
Butt Weld ◽  
Small Surface ◽  
Longitudinal Residual Stress

Detailed residual stress analysis was performed for a multi-pass butt weld, representing the middle butt-girth weld of a storage tank. The analysis procedures addressed welding parameters, joint detail, weld pass deposition sequence, and temperature-dependent properties. The predicted residual stresses were then considered in stress intensity factor calculations using a three-dimensional finite element alternating model (FEAM) for investigating crack growth behavior for both small elliptical surface and through-wall cracks. Two crack orientations were considered: one is parallel to the vessel girth weld and the other is perpendicular to the girth weld. Since the longitudinal (parallel to weld) and transverse (perpendicular to weld) residual stresses exhibit drastically different distributions, a different crack growth behavior is predicted. For a small surface crack parallel to the weld, the crack tends to grow more quickly at the surface along the weld rather than into the thickness. The self-equilibrating nature of the transverse residual stress distribution suggests that a through-wall crack parallel to crack cannot be fully developed solely due to residual stress actions. For a crack that is perpendicular to the weld, a small surface crack exhibit a rapid increase in K at the deepest position, suggesting that a small surface crack has the propensity to become a through-wall crack. Once the through crack is fully developed, a significant re-distribution in longitudinal residual stress can be seen. As a result, in the absence of external loads there exists a limiting crack length beyond which further crack growth is deemed unlikely.

Effect of Surface Roughness and Residual Stress Induced by High Speed Milling Process on Short Crack Growth

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Zheng ◽  
H. D. Yu ◽  
X. Wang ◽  
X. M. Lai
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Damage Evolution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Milling Process ◽  
Short Crack ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Effect Of Surface

Surface scratches and residual stresses inevitably appear on the surface of the component as a result of the machining process. The damage evolution of surface scratch due to the combined effect of cyclic loading and residual stresses will be significantly different from the case where only the cyclic loading is considered. In the damage evolution of surface scratch, the short crack growth is of great importance owing to its apparently anomalous behaviors compared with the long-crack growth. In this paper, the effect of the surface roughness and the residual stress on the short crack growth is studied. Firstly, the surface roughness and the residual stress of 7075-T6 aluminum alloy induced by the high speed milling process with various cutting speeds and feed rates are investigated with the experimental method. The maximum height roughness parameter is measured, which is regarded as the surface defect induced by the milling process. The residual stress on the specimen surface is measured with the X-ray diffraction. Results show that the surface roughness becomes higher with the increase of the feed rate. However, the influence of the cutting speed on the surface roughness is not significant. The residual stresses on the specimen surface are all in the compressive state. The residual stress is more compressive as the feed rate increases. The effects of the process parameters on the surface roughness and the residual stress are described by the fitted formulas. Then a modified model is built to characterize short fatigue crack growth behaviors with the consideration of the residual stress. This model is proved to provide a realistic treatment of the short crack growth, as reflected by comparison with experimental fatigue crack growth data of medium carbon steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy published in literature. The effect of surface roughness and residual stress caused by the milling process on the short crack growth is also investigated by using the proposed model. The growth of the scratch is nonlinear when it is subjected to the cyclic load. The compressive residual stress reduces the growth rate of the crack. The crack with larger initial surface roughness grows faster than that with smaller roughness. The correlation of surface roughness, residual stress and crack growth length is obtained by the polynomial fitting. The investigations in this paper can help the damage tolerance design of structures and improve the awareness of the effect of the residual stress and surface roughness induced by the machining process on the short crack growth.

A Detailed Evaluation of the Effects of Bulk Residual Stress on Fatigue in Aluminum

2014 ◽  
Vol 891-892 ◽  
pp. 1205-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale L. Ball ◽  
Mark A. James ◽  
Robert J. Bucci ◽  
John D. Watton ◽  
Adrian T. DeWald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Property Data ◽  
Design Cycle ◽  
Detailed Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

The fully effective utilization of large aluminum forgings in aerospace structures has been hampered in the past by inadequate understanding of, and sometimes inaccurate representation of, bulk residual stresses and their impact on both design mechanical properties and structural performance. In recent years, significant advances in both computational and experimental methods have led to vastly improved characterization of residual stresses. As a result, new design approaches which require the extraction of residual stress effects from material property data and the formal inclusion of residual stresses in the design analysis, have been enabled. In particular, the impact of residual stresses on durability and damage tolerance can now be assessed, and more importantly, accounted for at the beginning of the design cycle.

Quantification of Residual Stresses Induced by Prior Loading at High Temperatures

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali N. Mehmanparast ◽  
Catrin M. Davies ◽  
Robert C. Wimpory ◽  
Kamran M. Nikbin
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Crack Growth ◽  
Creep Crack Growth ◽  
Crack Tip ◽  
Crack Plane ◽  
Residual Stress Field ◽  
Compression Direction ◽  
Fracture Specimen

High temperature components generally undergo cyclic loading conditions. Prior tensile/compressive loading of a fracture specimen can induce compressive/tensile residual stress fields at the crack tip. These residual stresses will influence the subsequent fracture behaviour of the cracked body. This work forms part of a project to examine the influence of creep induced damage at a crack tip on subsequent fatigue crack growth and fracture toughness properties of austenitic type 316H stainless steel. Creep damage is introduced local to the crack tip of a fracture specimen by interrupting a creep crack growth test, performed at 550 °C. Prior to testing, the material was pre-compressed in order to strain harden the material. The compact tension, C(T), specimen geometry has been considered in this work. Since residual stresses are known to influence fatigue and fracture toughness properties of a cracked body, it is important that the residual stress levels at the crack tip are quantified. Neutron diffraction (ND) measurements have therefore been performed to quantify the extent of residual stress in these samples after initial loading, and compared to finite element model predictions. Two specimens have been considered with the crack plane orientated in parallel and perpendicular to the pre-compression direction. Compressive residual stresses of around 100 MPa have been measured directly ahead of the crack tip. Reasonable predictions of the principal residual stress distributions have been obtained by the simplified FE analysis. Though the tensile properties differ significantly in for specimens orientated parallel and perpendicular to the pre-compression direction, no significant differences in the residual stress field are predicted in the C(T) specimens orientated in both directions.

Experimental/Modelling Study of Residual Stress in Al/SiCp Bent Bars by Synchrotron XRD and Slitting Eigenstrain Methods

2008 ◽  
Vol 571-572 ◽  
pp. 277-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Song ◽  
Solène Chardonnet ◽  
Giancarlo Savini ◽  
Shu Yan Zhang ◽  
Willem J.J. Vorster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Residual Strain ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Front Face ◽  
Stress Profile ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Residual Stress Profile

The aim of the study presented here was to evaluate the residual stresses present in a bar of aluminium alloy 2124-T1 matrix composite (MMC) reinforced with 25vol% particulate silicon carbide (SiCp) using X-ray diffraction and 3D profilometry (curvature measurement using Mitutoyo/Renishaw coordinate measurement machine) and comparing these results with numerical models of residual strain and stress profiles obtained by a simple inelastic bending model and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The residual strain distribution was introduced into the test piece by plastic deformation in the 4-point bending configuration. At the first stage of this study the elasticplastic behaviour of the MMC was characterized under static and cyclic loading to obtain the material parameters, hardening proprieties and cyclic hysteresis loops. Subsequently, synchrotron Xray diffraction and CMM curvature measurements were performed to deduce the residual stress profile in the central section of the bar. The experimental data obtained from these measurements were used in the inelastic bending and FEA simulations. The specimens were then subjected to incremental slitting using EDM (electric discharge machining) with continuous back and front face strain gauge monitoring. The X-ray diffraction and incremental slitting results were then analysed using direct and inverse eigenstrain methods. Residual stresses plots obtained by different methods show good agreement with each other.

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