Modeling of fatigue crack growth from a notch

When a fatigue crack is nucleated and propagates into the vicinity of the notch, the crack growth rate is generally higher than that can be expected by using the stress intensity factor concept. The current study attempted to describe the crack growth at notches quantitatively with a detailed consideration of the cyclic plasticity of the material. An elastic–plastic finite element analysis was conducted to obtain the stress and strain histories of the notched component. A single multiaxial fatigue criterion was used to determine the crack initiation from the notch and the subsequent crack growth. Round compact specimens made of 1070 steel were subjected to Mode I cyclic loading with different R-ratios at room temperature. The approach developed was able to quantitatively capture the crack growth behavior near the notch. When the R-ratio was positive, the crack growth near a notch was mainly influenced by the plasticity created by the notch and the resulted fatigue damage during crack initiation. When the R-ratio was negative, the contact of the cracked surfaces during a part of a loading cycle reduced the cyclic plasticity of the material near the crack tip. The combined effect of notch plasticity and possible contact of cracked surface were responsible for the observed crack growth phenomenon near a notch.     

各向同性材料中微裂纹的最大屏蔽效应

通过对微裂纹屏蔽不同来源的分析及计算,发现在各向同性脆性材料中,残余应力释放引起的微裂纹对主裂尖产生最大屏蔽效应时该微裂纹的倾角与最大张应力的方向没有明显的对应关系．在Hutchinson[1]所指出的屏蔽效应的第二个来源中,还应计及微裂纹形成引起的远场应力在微裂纹处产生的应力场的释放从而导致应力场的再分布．     

侧向受拉脆性岩石压缩本构及蠕变失效研究

轴向压缩作用下,脆性岩石侧向应力严重影响岩石力学特性。侧向压应力影响下的轴向压缩岩石力学行为已经得到广泛研究,然而侧向拉应力对轴向压缩岩石力学行为影响研究很少。本文基于脆性岩石翼型裂纹扩展模型中,初始裂纹面法向应力与剪切应力的正负方向为判断依据,研究了侧向拉应力对轴向压缩力学行为的影响。发现恒定的侧向拉应力作用下,轴向压缩应力渐进变化过程中,脆性岩石内部细观初始裂纹面的法向应力只能为压缩应力,不存在拉应力情况。分析了从侧向压应力到拉应力转化过程中,脆性岩石轴向压应力与细观裂纹扩展长度关系、轴向压应力与轴向应变关系、岩石峰值强度、裂纹启裂应力及初始弹性模量的变化规律。并分析了侧向拉应力对岩石蠕变裂纹长度、裂纹速率、轴向应变及应变率演化曲线,以及对蠕变失效时间及稳态蠕变应变率的影响。讨论了侧向拉压应力突变转化以及侧向拉应力分级增大对轴向压缩岩石蠕变演化行为影响。该研究为深部地下工程围岩稳定性评价提供了一定理论依据。     

界面微裂纹屏蔽J_k矢量投影守恒

用理论推导和电算实践证明，尽管两相材料界面裂纹Ｊ积分的显函数表达式与均质材料中不同，尽管界面裂纹尖端固有的 １／２＋ｉε振荡奇异性和张开滑移型固有的耦合造成近尖区应力场分布的复杂性，但作者在均质材料微裂纹屏蔽问题中发现的Ｊ积分再分配关系 Ｊｋ矢量投影守恒定理在两相材料界面微裂纹屏蔽问题中仍然成立．这再次说明，远场Ｊ积分向界面裂纹尖端传递过程中跨越微裂纹群是有损失的．这个损失可用Ｊｋ矢量在界面裂纹延线坐标轴上的投影来定量地评估     

缺口根部塑性区和拉应力场对循环压缩疲劳裂纹止裂长度的影响

本文采用激光显微像面全息和散斑照像分离技术检测了双缺口试件在不同压缩应力条件下缺口根部塑性区的形状及大小,并采用有限元分析法计算了相同应力下的塑性区和裂端应力场.结果表明:用显微像面全息法测量塑性区的大小及形状简单易行,且有比较满意的工程精度. 对在不同压缩循环加载条件下测得的瘦劳裂纹止裂长度与所测压缩塑性区相比较表明:疲劳裂纹止裂长度和塑性区大小之间不存在简单的对应关系.止裂长度主要由缺口根部在循环压缩卸载过程中所产生的拉伸应力区控制.     

A 3-D ellipsoidal flaw model for brittle fracture in compression

Engineering materials are rarely free of flaws. Mode I cracking from pre-existing flaws is the major cause of the brittle fracture in compression of materials such as concrete and rock. A 3-D ellipsoidal flaw model is used to show the significant influence of flaw geometry on crack initiation in uniform uniaxial, biaxial and triaxial compression. The model shows that the governing criterion for crack initiation may change from energy to stress with increasing crack size, and that for voids of similar size a spherical void is the most critical shape for crack initiation. The model thus provides a basis for a better understanding of both the phenomenon and the mechanism of brittle fracture in compression.     

A new photoelastic model for studying fatigue crack closure

The photoelastic analysis of crack tip stress intensity factors has been historically developed for use on sharp notches in brittle materials that idealize the cracked structure. This approach, while useful, is not applicable to cases where residual effects of fatigue crack development (e.g., plasticity, surface roughness) affect the applied stress intensity range. A photoelastic model of these fatigue processes has been developed using polycarbonate, which is sufficiently ductile to allow the growth of a fatigue crack. The resultant stress field has been modeled mathematically using the stress potential function approach of Muskhelishvili to predict the stresses near a loaded but closed crack in an elastic body. The model was fitted to full-field photoelastic data using a combination of a generic algorithm and the downhill simplex method. The technique offers a significant advance in the ability to characterize the behavior of fatigue cracks with plasticity-induced closure, and hence to gain new insights into the associated mechanisms.     

Three-dimensional elasticity problems related to cracks: Exact solution by inversion transformation

Prior to determining the conditions of brittle and quasi-brittle fracture of elastic solids with cracks, it is necessary to solve the corresponding three-dimensional elasticity problem. Since analytical solutions are known only for certain simple configurations such as an infinite space containing a plane, penny-shaped, or elliptical crack, and a half-plane or a strip crack [1–3], numerical procedure may have to be used.This paper is concerned with a tensile crack (or Mode I crack) on a plane domain in infinite elastic medium. A technique is proposed for constructing exact solutions for crack configurations that are obtainable by inversion transformation from the canonical contours such as a circle, ellipse or half-plane, for which exact solutions are known. Simple formulae are derived which yield the stress intensity factor distribution over the transformed crack boundary with loads appropriately adjusted according to the initial crack region. Hence, it is not necessary to find the complete solution. Solutions obtained by this method are presented for cracks bounded by convex as well as nonconvex contour, i.e., oval and sickle-shape contours.     

Assessment of creep crack growth due to stress relief

An analysis is conducted to predict stress relief cracking at 550 °C in notched compact tension specimens of Type 316H austenitic stainless steel. The specimens had been subjected to pre-compression to generate a tensile residual stress distribution at the notch tip. This stress distribution is represented by a uniform reference stress over the zone of tension ahead of the notch tip. Creep rupture and creep crack growth data alone are required and used to make the predictions. It is found that the shape of the crack growth curve is correctly predicted when mean data are employed. However, upper bound crack growth properties are required to accurately predict the actual extent of cracking. Sensitivity studies show that the amount of stress relief cracking predicted is relatively insensitive to the reference stress initially assumed to describe the residual stress distribution, since the reference stress relaxes to a magnitude that is almost independent of its initial value. Adoption of an initial reference stress equal to the ultimate tensile strength of the steel, when combined with mean creep rupture and upper bound crack growth properties, results in safe predictions that are not overly conservative. The analysis should only be regarded as reliable for small amounts of crack extension of less than the size of the tensile zone ahead of the crack tip.     

Mesh sensitivity effects on fatigue crack growth by crack-tip blunting and re-sharpening

Crack-tip blunting under tensile loads and re-sharpening of the crack-tip during unloading is one of the basic mechanisms for fatigue crack growth in ductile metals. Based on an elastic–perfectly plastic material model, crack growth computations have been continued up to 700 full cycles by using remeshing at several stages of the plastic deformation, with studies of the effect of overloads or compressive underloads. Recent published analyses for the first two cycles have shown folding of the crack surface in compression, leading to something that looks like striations. The influence of mesh refinement is used to study the possibility of this type of behaviour within the present method. Even with much refined meshes no indication of crack surface folding is found here.     

过载作用下聚乙烯疲劳裂纹扩展行为研究

论文针对中密度聚乙烯材料(MDPE)，采用平板试样进行了I型疲劳裂纹扩展和单次过载下裂纹扩展试验．发现与金属材料类似，单次拉伸过载对聚乙烯(PE)的疲劳裂纹扩展有明显的迟滞作用，降低了裂纹扩展速率．试验还通过变载荷刻线法获取疲劳裂纹扩展前缘的实际形貌和变化规律，对常规变载荷刻线方法进行了调整和验证，其修正方法对高分子材料的疲劳裂纹扩展前缘刻线具有较好的效果．通过观察发现含楔形塑性区的裂尖钝化是裂纹迟滞的主要原因．过载引入的塑性区内残余应力对裂纹迟滞也起了重要作用．论文利用Dugdale模型计算了塑性区尺寸，使用基于残余应力的Wheeler模型对过载迟滞进行了很好的拟合．     

Mode II dynamic fields near a crack tip growing in an elastic-perfectly-plastic solid

An asymptotic solution is given for Mode II dynamic fields in the neighborhood of the tip of a steadily advancing crack in an incompressible elastic—perfectly-plastic solid (plane strain). It is shown that, like for Modes I and III (Gao and Nemat-Nasser, 1983), the complete dynamic solution for Mode II predicts a logarithmic singularity for the strain field, but unlike for those modes which involve no elastic unloading, the pure Mode II solution includes two elastic sectors next to the stress-free crack surfaces. This is in contradiction to the quasi-static solution which predicts a small central plastic zone, followed by two large elastic zones, and then two very small plastic zones adjacent to the stress-free crack faces. The stress field for the complete dynamic solution varies throughout the entire crack tip neighborhood, admitting finite jumps at two shock fronts within the central plastic sector. This dynamic stress field is consistent with that of the stationary crack solution, and indeed reduces to it as the crack growth speed becomes zero.     

Combined analysis of fracture under stresses acting along cracks

A joint approach to the study of two non-classical fracture mechanisms, namely fracture of cracked materials with initial (residual) stresses acting along the crack planes and fracture under compression along parallel cracks, is considered in the framework of three-dimensional linearized solid mechanics. Mathematical statements of problems for pre-stressed solids that contain interacting circular cracks are given. Problems for an infinite solid containing two parallel co-axial cracks and for a space with the periodical set of co-axial parallel cracks as well as for a half-space with near-the-surface crack are solved. Several patterns of loading on the crack faces (normal loading, radial shear and torsion) are considered. The effects of initial stresses on stress intensity factors are analyzed for highly elastic materials with some types of elastic potentials. Formulation of fracture criteria accounting effect of initial (residual) stresses is given. Critical parameters of fracture of solids containing interacting cracks under compression along the cracks are calculated. The influence of geometrical parameters of the problems as well as physical and mechanical properties of materials on these critical parameters is analyzed.     

Design of ceramic components using fracture mechanics concepts

Using linear elastic fracture mechanics concepts, a design lifetime diagram for an aluminum oxide insulator is developed. The stresses are given in terms of mechanical stress and temperature differences. Design considerations in the presence of subcritical crack growth are discussed as well as the statistical nature of the flaw populations in brittle solids. Depending on the nature of the environment, subcritical crack growth may or may not be important.     

Effect of microstructure on fracture of brittle materials: Unified approach

A theoretical approach to the fracture of brittle solids based on crack opening displacement and energy rate criterion is presented. The approach allows for the prediction of elastic (Young’s modulus) and fracture (fracture strength and thermal shock) response of a brittle material containing spherical pores and polycrystalline solids containing anisotropic residual stresses.     

Onset of residual stress fields near solitary spherical inclusions in a perfectly elastoplastic medium

When computing residual stresses in deformable solids, one has to use the theory of elastoplastic solids, because the final level and distribution of residual stresses is determined exactly by the accumulated reversible strains. In turn, to compute the elastic strains, one needs to determine the displacement field. The problem of determining displacements in statically determinate problems of the theory of perfect elastoplastic solids was considered for the first time in [1, 2]. The techniques proposed there permitted solving the problem of finding the residual stresses near a cylindrical cavity in a perfectly elastoplastic medium [3]. It was shown that secondary plastic flow [4] may arise in the unloading processes, which significantly redistributes the final residual stresses. In the present paper, we consider the loading and unloading problems for a ball with a rigid or elastic spherical inclusion. We study the onset of secondary plastic flow under unloading and compute the residual stresses. Thus, we model the onset of the residual stress field near a more rigid inhomogeneity. The case of a softer inhomogeneity was essentially considered in [3], where the onset of the residual stress field near a continuity flaw was studied.     

基于数字散斑相关方法测定Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子

提出了一种通过数字散斑相关方法测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹尖端位置和应力强度因子的实验方法.实验采用疲劳试验机对含Ⅰ型缺口的Cr12MoV钢试件预制裂纹,通过数字散斑相关方法测试试件在三点弯曲加载条件下裂纹的扩展过程及裂尖区域的位移场.将位移场数据代入裂尖位移场方程组,采用牛顿-拉普森方法求解含未知参量的裂尖非线性位移场方程组,计算裂尖位置和应力强度因子.实验结果表明,采用该方法可以准确地测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子、裂尖位置及裂纹扩展长度,解决了以往研究中因不能准确测定裂纹尖端位置,而无法准确计算Ⅰ型裂纹裂尖断裂参数的难题,揭示了金属材料裂纹扩展过程中应力强度因子演化特征.     

缺口根部和裂纹尖端残余应力的X射线法测定

X射线法用于缺口根部和裂纹尖端等徽区的残余应力测试的先决条件是解决缩小光束直径、提高衍射束的强度和准确设置试样等技术问题.在X射线衍射仪上借助于自行设计制造的限束对光装置和侧倾对中附件,成功地测定了缺口根部半径为1mm的喷丸残余应力场和板形试样压-压周期载荷下裂纹尖端的残余拉应力场.     

PMMA膨胀环动态拉伸碎裂实验研究

在强动载作用下, 脆性材料的碎裂问题是一个重要的研究课题, 而脆性材料在冲击拉伸载荷下的力学行为的实验研究相对较匮乏. 提出了一种动态拉伸断(碎)裂的液压膨胀环实验技术, 可用于准脆性/脆性材料的动态拉伸. 利用该技术对有机玻璃(PMMA)圆环试件进行了不同膨胀速度下的动态碎裂实验研究. 从回收碎片的断口形貌和碎片内部残余裂纹观察可知试件的破碎由环向拉伸应力造成, 碎片断口处发出的稀疏波会将周围的拉伸应力卸载, 从而抑制其他裂纹的进一步发展. 利用超高速相机记录了试件的膨胀碎裂过程, 利用DISAR激光速度干涉仪获得了试件外表面粒子的径向膨胀速度历史, 通过试件上的应变片获得了试件的应变历史和断裂应变. 实验结果表明: 在拉伸应变率150\mathrm{~}500s^{-1}范围, 材料的动态断裂应变低于准静态加载下的断裂应变, 体现出“动脆”现象; 随着加载应变率的提高, PMMA 材料的碎片尺寸减小; 无量纲化的PMMA圆环的平均碎片尺寸介于韧性碎裂模型和脆性碎裂模型的预测数值之间, 反映出材料的准脆性特性.