基于塑性应变能的多轴低周疲劳寿命预测模型

在分析多轴疲劳损伤机理的基础上,提出一个新的多轴低周疲劳寿命预测模型。此模型以临界平面上的塑性应变能作为疲劳损伤参量,分析了临界平面的特点并给出了损伤参量的计算过程。利用该模型预测了不同加载路径下的304不锈钢试件的疲劳寿命,并与试验值进行比较。结果表明,该损伤参量具有明确的物理意义,能够适用于多轴比例与非比例等各种复杂的加载情况。     

基于有限元法的16MnR缺口件疲劳寿命预测方法

以16MnR钢缺口棒状试样为研究对象,基于有限元分析方法,提出了一个缺口构件疲劳寿命预测方法。以一种能描述材料非Masing特性的A-F类循环塑性理论为基础,用有限元方法分析了缺口棒状试样在比例与非比例加载下的多轴应力-应变状态。比例与非比例加载工况通过理想的试验控制路径和半寿命时的试验实际路径来实现加载。基于有限元应力-应变结果,运用一个基于临界面概念的多轴疲劳损伤准则预测了缺口构件的疲劳启裂位置和寿命。分析结果表明:提出的疲劳寿命预测方法能很好地预测缺口构件在比例与非比例加载下的疲劳寿命。     

考虑应变路径的多轴低周疲劳寿命预测模型

通过分析材料在多轴非比例加载下产生附加强化的机理,该文以拉扭薄壁管试件为研究对象,分析了临界平面上的应变状态,并在此基础上以塑性应变能为控制参数定义表征多轴低周疲劳寿命对应变路径依赖性的非比例度。基于多轴疲劳临界损伤面原理,应用von-Mises 准则和本文定义的应变路径非比例度参数建立起能反映应变路径对非比例附加强化影响的多轴低周疲劳寿命预测模型。利用该模型预测08X18H10T 不锈钢、Ti-6Al-4V合金、S460N 钢和2.25Cr-1Mo 钢这4 种材料的多轴疲劳寿命,并与试验值进行比较。结果表明:该模型的预测结果与试验结果吻合良好,能同时适用于比例与非比例加载,预测精度较高,便于工程应用。     

镍基单晶合金多轴非比例加载低周疲劳单胞模型

在680和850℃下对DD3镍基单晶合金进行多轴非比例加载低周疲劳试验,结果表明等效应变范围△ε_e、试验温度、等效应力范围△σ_e对单晶合金的低周疲劳寿命有显著影响。基于能量耗散理论,引入参量k表征多轴非比例加载对疲劳寿命的影响,构造循环塑性应变能作为损伤参量,建立镍基单晶合金低周疲劳寿命预测模型。参量k与循环寿命之...     

基于DIC的铝合金薄壁缺口件多轴疲劳行为

为探究缺口对材料多轴疲劳性能的影响,以航空用7075-T651铝合金薄壁缺口件为研究对象,进行等效应力幅变量的比例多轴疲劳实验,采用数字图像相关技术进行表征并分析临界平面角度.结果表明:随加载等效应力幅的增加,试样多轴疲劳寿命降低,缺口附近最大轴向、扭向和剪切工程应变增大.不同加载条件下,缺口附近应变集中现象均随着加载周次的增加而逐渐增强.缺口附近的应变变化过程可分为裂纹萌生、裂纹扩展及瞬断阶段.引入临界平面角度和其上最大正应变,提出SWT修正模型,其预测结果均位于2倍分散带内.     

复杂面内应力状态下平面编织高铝纤维增强氧化铝基复合材料强度及疲劳寿命预测方法

针对平面编织氧化铝基复合材料提出了一种复杂面内应力状态下的强度准则和疲劳寿命预测方法。通过拉伸、压缩及纯剪切试验,分别获得了材料的静强度指标。考虑材料拉、压性能的差异和面内拉-剪联合作用对材料强度的影响机制,提出了修正的Hoffman强度理论。采用该强度理论预测得到的偏轴拉伸强度与试验结果基本一致,偏差不超过10%。开展了偏轴角θ=0°、15°、30°、45°,应力比R=0.1,频率f=10 Hz的拉伸疲劳试验,试验结果表明随着偏轴角的增加,相同轴向拉伸载荷下的疲劳寿命逐渐降低。由于面内剪切应力分量的作用,疲劳失效由纤维主导逐渐过渡到纤维和基体共同主导的模式。基于单轴疲劳寿命曲线,采用Broutman-Sahu剩余强度模型表征剩余强度随疲劳循环次数的变化规律,结合剩余强度演化模型和修正的Hoffman强度理论,提出了一种面内复杂载荷条件下的疲劳寿命预测模型,并引入疲劳剪切损伤影响因子表征拉-剪应力联合作用对材料疲劳行为的影响。采用本文提出的疲劳寿命预测模型,预测不同偏轴角拉伸疲劳寿命,预测结果与试验结果基本一致,偏差在1倍寿命范围内。比较结果表明在给定应力比、温度和疲劳载荷频率条件下,该疲劳寿命预测模型可以用来预测平面编织氧化铝基复合材料拉-剪复杂面内载荷条件下疲劳寿命。      

多轴载荷下缺口件的疲劳寿命估算方法

提出了一种多轴载荷下缺口件的疲劳寿命估算方法。该方法基于临界平面理论,计算出缺口件各部位的多轴疲劳损伤参数,以损伤参数最大的部位为缺口件的多轴疲劳危险点。根据临界距离思想,提出了热点法和线法的临界距离的计算方法,采用热点法和线法考虑缺口件疲劳危险点附近损伤梯度的影响,以临界距离修正的损伤参数计算多轴载荷下缺口件的疲劳寿命。采用SAE1045钢缺口件的多轴疲劳试验对该文提出的寿命估算方法进行评估和验证,结果表明:该文所建立的寿命预测方法具有较好的预测能力,预测结果大部分分布在试验结果的3倍分散带之内。     

在多轴载荷下45钢的循环特性

通过多轴疲劳试验，研究了在多轴加载条件下45钢的循环特性变化规律，分析了非比例附加强化、多轴循环软化/硬化特性及疲劳寿命对加载路径参数的依赖性，结果表明，相位角主要影响非比例附加强化程度，幅值比主要影响多轴循环软化/硬化特性，二者都影响多轴疲劳寿命。     

多轴疲劳测试方法的数值仿真

利用有限元法和临界平面法,提出一种适用于复杂循环载荷下工程构件疲劳测试手段的仿真方法。用此方法仿真了拉扭循环载荷下SAE1045钢缺口试件的多轴疲劳测试,并与实验结果进行了比较。结果表明,此方法可用于工程实际。     

纤维增强复合材料多轴疲劳的实验研究

采用缠绕成型的玻璃纤维增强聚合物基复合材料管型试样,对复合材料在拉扭双轴载荷作用下的多轴疲劳行为进行了实验研究。实验结果表明,复合材料多轴疲劳失效是基体中疲劳损伤累积的结果,最终的失效裂纹通常平行于纤维方向;根据实验中得出的应力应变曲线、疲劳寿命曲线,重点讨论了不同缠绕角复合材料的多轴疲劳寿命随双轴载荷比例、平均应力等因素的变化规律,为今后的多轴疲劳理论研究提供了依据。     

Multiaxial fatigue damage parameter and life prediction for medium-carbon steel based on the critical plane approach

The tension–torsion fatigue characteristics were investigated under proportional and non-proportional loading in this paper. The fatigue cracks on the surface of multiaxial fatigue specimens were observed and analyzed by a scan electron microscope. On the basis of the investigation on the Kindil–Brown–Miller and Fatemi–Socie’s critical plane approaches, a shear strain based multiaxial fatigue damage parameter was proposed by von Mises criterion based on combining the maximum shear strain and the normal strain excursion between adjacent turning points of the maximum shear strain on the critical plane. The proposed multiaxial fatigue damage parameter does not include the weight constants. According to the proposed multiaxial fatigue damage parameter, the multiaxial fatigue life prediction model was established with the Coffin–Manson equation, which is used to predict the multiaxial fatigue life of medium-carbon steel. The results showed that the proposed multiaxial fatigue damage parameter could be used under either multiaxial proportional or non-proportional loading.     

Low‐cycle fatigue life prediction of various metallic materials under multiaxial loading

This paper proposed a simple life prediction model for assessing fatigue lives of metallic materials subjected to multiaxial low‐cycle fatigue (LCF) loading. This proposed model consists of the maximum shear strain range, the normal strain range and the maximum normal stress on the maximum shear strain range plane. Additional cyclic hardening developed during non‐proportional loading is included in the normal stress and strain terms. A computer‐based procedure for multiaxial fatigue life prediction incorporating critical plane damage parameters is presented as well. The accuracy and reliability of the proposed model are systematically checked by using about 300 test data through testing nine kinds of material under both zero and non‐zero mean stress multiaxial loading paths.     

Prediction of multiaxial fatigue life for complex three‐dimensional stress state considering effect of additional hardening

In engineering practice, it is generally accepted that most of components are subjected to multiaxial stress‐strain state. To analyse this complicated loading state, different types of specimens of 2A12 (2124 in the United States) aluminium alloy were tested under multiaxial loading conditions and a new multiaxial fatigue analysis method for the state of three‐dimensional stress and strain is proposed. Elastic‐plastic finite element method (FEM) and a proposed vector computing method are used to describe the loading state at the critical point of specimen, by which the parameter Γ_T is calculated at the new defined subcritical plane to consider the effect of additional cyclic hardening. Meanwhile, the principal equivalent strain is still calculated at the traditional critical plane. The new damage parameter is composed of different process parameters, by which the dynamic path of strain state, including loading environments and material properties, are fully considered in one loading cycle. According to experimental verifications with 2A12 aluminium alloy, the results show that the proposed method shows satisfactory, accurate, and reliable results for multiaxial fatigue life prediction in the state of three‐dimensional stress and strain.     

A critical plane-strain energy density criterion for multiaxial low-cycle fatigue life under non-proportional loading

A series of multiaxial low-cycle fatigue experiments was performed on 45 steel under non-proportional loading. The present evaluations of multiaxial low-cycle fatigue life were systematically analysed. A combined energy density and critical plane concept is proposed that considers different failure mechanisms for a shear-type failure and a tensile-type failure, and from which different damage parameters for the critical plane-strain energy density are proposed. For tensile-type failures in material 45 steel and shear-type failures in material 42CrMo steel, the new damage parameters permit a good prediction for multiaxial low-cycle fatigue failure under non-proportional loading. The currently used critical plane models are a special and simple form of the new model.     

Selection of the critical plane orientation in two-parameter multiaxial fatigue failure criterion under combined bending and torsion

The present paper is focused on engineering application of the algorithm of fatigue life calculation under multiaxial fatigue loading. For that reason, simple two-parameter multiaxial fatigue failure criterion is proposed. The criterion is based on the normal and shear stresses on the critical plane. Experimental results obtained under multiaxial proportional, non-proportional cyclic loading and variable-amplitude bending and torsion were used to verify the proposed two-parameter criterion and other well-known multiaxial fatigue criteria. Elastic–plastic behaviour of the bulk material was taken into account in calculation of the stress/strain distribution across the specimen cross-section. It is shown that the proposed two-parameter multiaxial fatigue failure criterion gives the best correlation between the experimental and calculated fatigue lives.     

Multiaxial fatigue life estimation in welded joints using the critical plane approach

Many engineering structures experience multiaxial fatigue states of stress–strain in the vicinity of welded joints. Fatigue assessment of welded joints under proportional (in-phase) cyclic loading can be performed by using conventional hypotheses (e.g., see the von Mises criterion or the Tresca criterion) on the basis of local approaches. On the contrary, the fatigue life predictions of welded joints under non-proportional (out-of-phase) cyclic loading are generally poor if these conventional hypotheses are used. In the present paper, the critical plane-based multiaxial fatigue criterion proposed by Carpinteri and Spagnoli for smooth and notched structural components is extended to the fatigue assessment of welded joints under in- and out-of-phase loadings. The applicability of this criterion, expressed in terms of nominal stresses, to the fatigue life prediction of welded specimens is investigated by using experimental data available in the literature.     

A new approach of fatigue life prediction for metallic materials under multiaxial loading

Based on experimental data found in literatures, four traditionally multiaxial fatigue life criteria are analyzed and verified. It is discovered that these conventional criteria cannot reflect well the combined effect both under tension and torsion loadings for some materials, such as 6082-T6 and AlCu4Mg1, due to lack of enough consideration about the influence of stress amplitude ratio and stress level on fatigue life even under proportional loading. In order to solve this problem, a new approach of fatigue life prediction, based on the equal-life curve, is proposed and it is composed of three parts: the multiaxial fatigue life surface, a new path-dependent factor for multiaxial high-cycle fatigue and a material parameter describing material sensitivity to non-proportional loading. Finally, the precision of the presented approach is systematically checked against the experimental data found in literatures for four different materials under proportional and non-proportional loadings.     

Multiaxial notch fatigue life prediction based on pseudo stress correction and finite element analysis under variable amplitude loading

A new computational methodology is proposed for fatigue life prediction of notched components subjected to variable amplitude multiaxial loading. In the proposed methodology, an estimation method of non‐proportionality factor (F) proposed by authors in the case of constant amplitude multiaxial loading is extended and applied to variable amplitude multiaxial loading by using Wang‐Brown's reversal counting approach. The pseudo stress correction method integrated with linear elastic finite element analysis is utilized to calculate the local elastic‐plastic stress and strain responses at the notch root. For whole local strain history, the plane with weight‐averaged maximum shear strain range is defined as the critical plane in this study. Based on the defined critical plane, a multiaxial fatigue damage model combined with Miner's linear cumulative damage law is used to predict fatigue life. The experimentally obtained fatigue data for 7050‐T7451 aluminium alloy notched shaft specimens under constant and variable amplitude multiaxial loadings are used to verify the proposed methodology and equivalent strain‐based methodology. The results show that the proposed methodology is superior to equivalent strain‐based methodology.     

FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF NOTCHED COMPOSITE COMPONENTS

Abstract— The local stress/strain approach has been used to predict the fatigue lives of notched composite components. The method was based on a microstress analysis and the application of a multiaxial fatigue parameter incorporating the alternating strain components on the critical plane. This parameter was able to correlate the fatigue lives obtained under a variety of multiaxial loading and geometrical configurations, enabling a generalized fatigue life curve to be determined on the basis of limited experimental data.
The ability of the multiaxial fatigue parameter to relate the fatigue behaviour of composites was illustrated by predicting the locations of crack initiation sites in a unidirectional silicon carbide fibre reinforced titanium plate containing a circular hole tested under constant amplitude cyclic loading. The same approach was also successfully employed to predict the fatigue lives of graphite reinforced epoxy composite tubes with circular holes tested under several combinations of cyclic tension and torsion.     

A new multiaxial fatigue damage model for various metallic materials under the combination of tension and torsion loadings

Based on the critical plane approach, a new damage parameter for multiaxial fatigue damage is presented. Both components of strain and stress are considered in this parameter. Thus, a new multiaxial fatigue damage model is given based on the critical plane approach. The capability of fatigue life prediction for the proposed fatigue damage model is checked against the experimental data of Hot-rolled 45 Steel, S460N Steel, 1045HR Steel, 30CrMnSiNi2A alloy steel, and GH4169 alloy at elevated temperature, and the predicted results are compared with results from common multiaxial fatigue model. It is demonstrated that the proposed criterion gives better satisfactory results for all the five checked materials.