LI Chong, GAO Peng, XIE LiYang. RESEARCH ON THE GROWTH LAW OF EXTREME IRREGULAR CRACK FRONT IN NOTCHED COMPONENTS[J]. Journal of mechanical strength , 2024, 46(5): 1236-1242.
DOI:
LI Chong, GAO Peng, XIE LiYang. RESEARCH ON THE GROWTH LAW OF EXTREME IRREGULAR CRACK FRONT IN NOTCHED COMPONENTS[J]. Journal of mechanical strength , 2024, 46(5): 1236-1242. DOI: 10.16579/j.issn.1001.9669.2024.05.027.
RESEARCH ON THE GROWTH LAW OF EXTREME IRREGULAR CRACK FRONT IN NOTCHED COMPONENTS
The prediction of real and extreme irregular crack front growth paths directly determines the accuracy of evaluating residual fatigue life of structures.A method for studying the distribution of stress intensity factor(SIF)along the extremely irregular crack fronts was developed by using a notched member
which was geometrically most similar to an engineering structure
as the cracked body.Firstly
the local curvature changes caused by convex
concave
and small curvature radii along the crack front were characterized by high-resolution spline curves.Then
based on the sub-model method combined with adaptive meshing technique
the growth trajectory of irregular crack front was iteratively simulated to obtain the irregular crack propagation law.Finally
by comparing the predicted crack geometry with the experimentally measured crack location
size
and other information
the reliability of crack propagation driving force simulated by Franc3D was verified through examples.The results show that the predicted crack front trajectory basically coincides with the actual
and the SIF values along any normalized growth path are basically equal.The predicted residual life is very close to the experimental life