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Overload effects in fatigue crack growth by crack-tip blunting
A basic mechanisms for fatigue crack growth in ductile metals is that depending on crack-tip blunting under tensile loads and re-sharpening of the crack-tip during unloading. In the present paper, the effect of an overload in one of the cycles is studied based on this mechanism. In a standard numerical analysis accounting for finite strain, it is not possible to follow the blunting/re-sharpening process during many cycles, as severe mesh distortion at the crack-tip results from the huge geometry changes developing during the cyclic plastic straining. Here, based on an elastic-perfectly plastic material model, crack growth computations are continued up to 700 full cycles by using remeshing at several stages of the plastic deformation. Crack growth results for purely cyclic loading are compared with predictions for cases where an overload is applied, and it is shown how crack growth slows down after the overload. Different load amplitudes, and an overload at different cycle numbers are considered.
Overload effects in fatigue crack growth by crack-tip blunting
A basic mechanisms for fatigue crack growth in ductile metals is that depending on crack-tip blunting under tensile loads and re-sharpening of the crack-tip during unloading. In the present paper, the effect of an overload in one of the cycles is studied based on this mechanism. In a standard numerical analysis accounting for finite strain, it is not possible to follow the blunting/re-sharpening process during many cycles, as severe mesh distortion at the crack-tip results from the huge geometry changes developing during the cyclic plastic straining. Here, based on an elastic-perfectly plastic material model, crack growth computations are continued up to 700 full cycles by using remeshing at several stages of the plastic deformation. Crack growth results for purely cyclic loading are compared with predictions for cases where an overload is applied, and it is shown how crack growth slows down after the overload. Different load amplitudes, and an overload at different cycle numbers are considered.
Overload effects in fatigue crack growth by crack-tip blunting
Tvergaard, Viggo (author)
2005
9 Seiten, 18 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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