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When in the design phase, or for components requiring only a few cycles of
life, crack formation may be sufficient.
For highly engineered parts, for components that are manufactured in bulk
such as automotive parts, or for in-service life prediction, crack growth may be
required.
Crack Formation
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Crack Growth
Crack is not included in ANSYS analysis, but stress field in crack region is fed
to separate fatigue crack propagation tool, such as nCode.
Crack is included in ANSYS model.
Need to continually update mesh to account for crack growth.
May or may not know crack path.
Various methods used to obtain K, which is then used with a crack growth law to
determine remaining life.
Additional energy approaches include virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) and
cohesive zone modeling, typically used in delamination prediction.
Complex loading:
Perform a comprehensive fatigue analysis
using nCode.
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Goodman Diagram
Points below Goodman line are considered safe, points above line are
considered failed.
m
a = e 1
u
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Goodman Diagram
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Goodman Diagram
Goodman line
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nCode DesignLife
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Fatigue Curves
Stress-life curve:
Strain-life curve:
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Fatigue Loading
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Range
Mean
No.
450
225
50
150
100
300
2
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Partial damage =
ni
Ni
n
n1
n
+ 2 + 3 + = 1
N f1 N f 2 N f 3
Miners rule is very simplistic (for example, the order of loading has no effect),
but it is widely used.
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Elastic-Plastic Corrections
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Goodman
Gerber
Interpolate
FKM
Goodman Tension Only
Gerber Tension Only
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u
e (R ) = a
(
)
1
+
R
+
u
m
a
(1 R )
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Time-history compression.
Condense stress tensor down to a single stress, such as a signed Von Mises
or absolute maximum principal value.
Critical plane approach finds plane with the most damage.
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nCode Architecture
Working
folder is
searched
and
available
data
populates
list.
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Must define which cyclic loading to associate with which FE load, and
which fatigue material properties go with which component.
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Constant amplitude.
Apply loading in FE analysis.
Loading is scaled assuming sine wave.
Time series.
Apply loading in FE analysis.
Define load time history factors to scale FE loading.
Duty cycle.
Combination of various loadings.
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nCode Demonstration
Demonstration problem:
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