The influence on the crack growth rate for a short edge crack under fatigue loading due to changes in crack length, grain size, load range and grain boundary configuration, is investigated under quasi-static and plane strain conditions. The geometry is modelled by distributed dislocation dipole elem
Computationally efficient modelling of short fatigue crack growth using dislocation formulations
β Scribed by P. Hansson; S. Melin; C. Persson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 312 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-7944
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## a b s t r a c t In this study, the growth of a short edge crack during more than 14 000 cycles of fatigue loading is investigated in detail. An edge crack, in a semi-infinite body with no pre-existing obstacles present, is modelled in a boundary element approach by a distribution of dislocation
## Research highlights βΊ Cohesive zone elements allow to model fatigue crack initiation and growth. βΊ An algorithm reducing extensively the simulation time with little loss of accuracy was developed. βΊ The variability inherent in the fatigue life was assessed using a random field model. βΊ Both crac
G0/ . Since the value of the ledge force can be neglected as compared with the other two forces in (I), we get ~c = [ b / ~( 1 -v 2 ) ] ~2 / K I 2 ( 2 )
We express our appreciation to Dr. Yokobori for his interest in our paper [l] and for bringing to our attention their earlier paper [2] on dislocation dynamics theory for fatigue crack growth. The discussion of our paper centers on two points, namely that the dislocation models in [I] and [2] are es