Fatigue Damage of Materials: Experiment and Analysis

by A. Varvani-Farahani, C. A. Brebbia

Overview

Contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Materials, held in Toronto, Canada, July 14-16, 2003.

Engineering materials are routinely subjected to fatigue loading in a wide variety of applications in aeronautical, automotive, nuclear plant, petroleum and transportation industries. The extensive use of engineering materials over such a range of applications plus the cost involved in fatigue failure of materials and structures has resulted in an increasing awareness of the importance of damage and durability under cyclic loading conditions. It has recently been estimated that the annual cost of premature failures due to fatigue is well over 100 billion dollars per year.   

Coverage is broad and includes a range of materials and structures as well as different viewpoints and approaches to the fatigue analysis problem. Contemporary fatigue crack initiation and fatigue crack propagation methodologies will be discussed and problems in the area of crack closure, loading spectra and multiaxial loading will be addressed from both analytical and experimental aspects. 

The papers are divided under headings including: Fatigue Crack Initiation; Small Crack Growth and Threshold; Fatigue Crack Propagation; Fatigue Crack Closure; Contact and Fretting Fatigue;

Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue and Creep; Fatigue and

Corrosion; Multiaxial Fatigue; Mixed Mode Fatigue; Fatigue Damage Analysis; Fatigue Life Prediction; Design Against Fatigue Failure;

Statistical Analysis of Fatigue; Notches and Defects; Fatigue Spectra Loading; High Cycle Fatigue; Low Cycle Fatigue; Cyclic Elastoplastic Behaviour; Microstructural Defects;

Fatigue Testing and Crack Detection Methods; Computational Methods;

Fatigue of Welded Joints Case Studies; and Case Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853129797
Publisher:	WIT Press
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Advances in Damage Mechanics Ser. , #5
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Section 1	Case studies on fatigue
	Fatigue properties of vibration welded nylon 6 and nylon 6,6 butt joints	3
	Cutting process influence on fatigue steel sheets properties	13
	CF-18 wing full-scale fatigue testing and structural certification	23
	Effect of the coefficient of friction on the fatigue life of splines	35
	Fracture surface study of spur gears subjected to service loading history	45
	Fatigue characteristics of aluminum cast alloy AC2B-T6 with cast skin	55
	Fatigue life of asphalt concrete with rubber grains	65
Section 2	Computational methods
	Strain field and strain history of nonproportional loading	77
	Fatigue crack propagation analysis with the adaptive finite element mesh generator	89
	Calculation of the stress intensity factor variation due to residual stress following an overload	99
Section 3	Low cycle fatigue
	Estimation of the low cycle fatigue life for a submarine pressure hull	113
	Effect of residual stress on the fatigue life resistance of Ni-base materials operating under high applied loads	125
	Influence of strain rate on tensile and LCF properties of prior cold worked 316L stainless steel in dynamic strain aging regime	137
	Mathematical model for modelling the cyclic hardening/softening transient response of metallic materials	149
	Nondestructive fatigue damage assessment for Ti-6Al-4V alloy	159
Section 4	Fatigue crack initiation
	On the mechanism and causes of cross cracking in concast low alloy manganese steel slab	171
	Fatigue properties of high performance steel	181
	AFM study of slip localization and surface relief evolution in fatigued ferritic X10CrAl24 stainless steel	193
	Analysis of the effect of K[subscript max] on the fatigue crack propagation threshold	205
Section 5	Fatigue crack propagation
	Fatigue crack growth behaviour of surface cracks in Glare	213
	Numerical simulation of crack bifurcation under fatigue loading	223
	Influence of structure and service conditions on mechanism and rate of fatigue crack propagation in low-alloy steels	233
	Investigating the effects of pressure on the near tip behavior and crack growth in a particulate composite material	243
Section 6	Fatigue damage analysis
	Analysis of heat sources induced by fatigue loading	255
	Corrosion-fatigue behaviour of an HSLA steel subjected to periodic overloads	263
	The influence of drilling parameters and hole damage on GFRP composites fatigue strength	273
	Evaluation of fatigue damage in SiC particulate reinforced aluminum alloy by X-ray	283
	A fundamental study on deterioration of the existing RC beam by chemical and mechanical damage	295
Section 7	Fatigue of welded joints
	Fatigue damage analysis of welded structures based on continuum damage mechanics	309
	Influence of welding parameters on fatigue strength of spot-welded joint considering nugget size	321
Section 8	Multiaxial fatigue
	Crack closure, crack growth rate and fatigue life changes due to compressive overloads in biaxial fatigue	335
	Further evaluation of the advanced prediction method EVICD for arbitrary multiaxial loading	345
	Empirical relationship between pulsating and fully reversed fatigue strength amplitudes	355
	Fatigue life estimation under multiaxial loading based on the spectral analysis of stochastic processes	367
Section 9	Small crack growth and threshold
	Threshold stress for short fatigue crack growth	381
	Microcracking response of CFRP composites at different temperatures	389
	Simulation of stage I fatigue crack growth in a polycrystal through coupled FEM and discrete dislocation dynamics	399
	Simulation of microcrack growth under multiaxial random loading and comparison with experimental results	409
	Fatigue crack initiation and propagation behaviour of a squeeze cast Al alloy and its statistical aspect	421
Section 10	Statistical analysis of fatigue
	Statistical models for prediction of the fatigue crack growth in aircraft service	435
	Staircase testing - confidence and reliability	447
	Probabilistic approach in high cycle multiaxial fatigue: volume and surface effect	465
Section 11	Thermo-mechanical fatigue and creep
	Fatigue strength of ODSC at elevated temperature	479
	Thermal fatigue life estimation based on CASE failure criterion with measured solder layer strain	489
	Experimental evaluation on fatigue-creep interaction	499
	Author Index	509