Characterizations of material constraint effect for creep crack in center weldment under biaxial loading

Prediction of Crack Initiation Direction for Inclined Crack Under Biaxial Loading by Finite Element Method

This paper presents a simple method based on strain energy density criterion to study the crack initiation angle by finite element method under biaxial loading condition. The crack surface relative displacement method is used to eliminate the calculation of the stress intensity factors which are normally required. The analysis is performed using higher order four node quadrilateral element. The...

Creep Life Forecasting of Weldment

One of the yet unresolved engineering problems is forecasting the creep lives of weldment in a pragmatic way with sufficient accuracy. There are number of obstacles to circumvent including: complex material behavior, lack of accurate knowledge about the creep material behavior specially about the heat affected zones (HAZ),accurate and multi-axial creep damage models, etc. In general, creep life...

Dynamic Crack Propagation in Sheets of Compressible Neo-hookean Material under General In-plane Loading

Determination of Creep Properties for P91 Weldment Materials at 625c

The work presented in this paper is related to the determination of the creep properties for a P91 pipe weldment at 625 C, which forms part of a collaborative European project (Weldon). A Kachanov type, one damage variable, multi-axial material behaviour model was used to represent the material creep behaviour. The uniaxial material constants for the parent material and weld metal were determin...

Numerical modelling of elastic-plastic deformation at crack tips in composite material under stress wave loading

The paper deals with the elastic-plastic wave propagations in an anisotropic material subjected to impact loading with emphasis on an ideal fibre-reinforced cubic material under two-dimensional plane strain condition. The system of partial differential equations is hyperbolic. Therefore a characteristic-based difference method is proposed to calculate the formation of the plastic zone at the cr...