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Investigation of Crack Repairing Technique to Delay Fracture Initiation of Steel Members Subjected to Low Cycle Fatigue
Stress concentrations have become a common phenomenon in steel elements when arresting a fracture by implementing the crack stop hole (CSH) technique. Embedding the CSH with Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) enhances the fatigue life by delaying fractures while achieving stiffness recovery due to the superior mechanical characteristics of the CFRP material. Hence, the low cyclic fatigue (LCF) behaviour of 90 strengthened and non-strengthened CSH specimens was examined in this context. These specimens were subjected to a range of 0 to 10,000 fatigue load cycles at a frequency of 5 Hz. At the end of fatigue exposure, the average tensile strength was measured in each case. The application of a CFRP patch on the CSH effectively recovered the strength losses while enhancing the strength in the range of 32% to 45% with respect to the non-strengthened specimens. The developed numerical model based on the cyclic J-integral technique agrees with the test results. This study introduced geometry-related design guidelines for this novel CSH hybrid technique.
Investigation of Crack Repairing Technique to Delay Fracture Initiation of Steel Members Subjected to Low Cycle Fatigue
Stress concentrations have become a common phenomenon in steel elements when arresting a fracture by implementing the crack stop hole (CSH) technique. Embedding the CSH with Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) enhances the fatigue life by delaying fractures while achieving stiffness recovery due to the superior mechanical characteristics of the CFRP material. Hence, the low cyclic fatigue (LCF) behaviour of 90 strengthened and non-strengthened CSH specimens was examined in this context. These specimens were subjected to a range of 0 to 10,000 fatigue load cycles at a frequency of 5 Hz. At the end of fatigue exposure, the average tensile strength was measured in each case. The application of a CFRP patch on the CSH effectively recovered the strength losses while enhancing the strength in the range of 32% to 45% with respect to the non-strengthened specimens. The developed numerical model based on the cyclic J-integral technique agrees with the test results. This study introduced geometry-related design guidelines for this novel CSH hybrid technique.
Investigation of Crack Repairing Technique to Delay Fracture Initiation of Steel Members Subjected to Low Cycle Fatigue
Sampath Abeygunasekara (author) / Jeeva Chandanee Pushpakumari Gamage (author) / Sabrina Fawzia (author)
2023
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