3D thickness effects around notch and crack tip stress/strain fields
Journal Title: Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale - Year 2015, Vol 9, Issue 33
Abstract
Notches and cracks are usually approximately modeled as two-dimensional problems using solutions from plane elasticity to quantify localized stress/strain concentration effects around their tips. However, they may be associated with high gradients that can severely restrict local Poisson-induced transversal strains and cause important 3D stress fields around those tips. Fatigue crack initiation and growth, plastic zone sizes and shapes, and localized constraint effects that affect toughness are typical problems associated with such 3D effects, which may lead to non-conservative damage and life predictions if neglected. To quantify how important they can be, first finite element techniques are used to simulate thickness and notch-tip radius effects in the fields around such tips, and to evaluate their importance from the structural design point of view. Then, versatile sub-modeling techniques are used to study similar effects along the fronts of short and long cracks, and a stepwise re-meshing routine is used to show how an initially straight crack must slightly curve its front during its propagation by fatigue, due to the unavoidable 3D effects that always surround real crack tips.
Authors and Affiliations
R. Góes, J. Castro, M. Meggiolaro
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