The Influences of Mean Stresses and Stress History on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior

Effect of Mean Stress on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Stainless Steel 304L

Stainless steel has been employed in many engineering applications ranging from pharmaceutical equipment to piping in the nuclear reactors and storage to chemical products. In this attempt, simulation of fatigue crack growth based on experimental results of austenitic stainless steel 304L was presented using AFGROW code when NASGRO mode laws adopted. Double through crack at hole specimen is use...

The Combined Effects of Mean Stress and Aggressive Environments on Fatigue Crack Growth

Effect of Compressive Residual Stress on the Corner Crack Growth

In the present study, plasticity induced crack closure (PICC) concept and three dimensional (3D) finite element methods (FEM) are used to study the effect of compressive residual stress field on the fatigue crack growth from a hole. To investigate the effect of compressive residual stress on crack opening levels and crack shape evolution, Carlson’s experiments were simulated. Crack shape evolut...

Analyses of Fatigue Crack Growth and Closure Near Threshold Conditions for Large-Crack Behavior

A plasticity-induced crack-closure model was used to study fatigue crack growth and closure in thin 2024-T3 aluminum alloy under constant-R and constant-Kmax threshold testing procedures. Two methods of calculating crack-opening stresses were compared. One method was based on contact-K analyses and the other on contact crack-openingdisplacement (COD) analyses. These methods gave nearly identica...

A Simplified Residual Stress Model for Predicting Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior 'at Coldworked Fastener Holes

This paper presents an investigation of the fatigue crack growth (FCG) behavior at fastener holes in a high strength steel. 30CrMnSiNi2A, before and after a cold-expansion process. The fatigue life of coldworked specimens was signitkantly increased compared to non-wldworked ones and increased the !O\ver applied stress level. From a study' nf the residual stress distribution near the edgc of the...