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Fatigue and Fracture

( Basic Course )

Fatigue, How and Why


Physics of Fatigue

Professor Darrell F. Socie


Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

© 2009 Darrell Socie, All Rights Reserved


Fatigue, How and Why

„ Physics of Fatigue
„ Material Properties
„ Similitude
„ Fatigue Calculator

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Size Scale for Studying Fatigue
Atoms Dislocations Crystals Specimens Structures

10-10 10-8 10-6 10-4 10-2 100 102

Understand the physics on this scale

Model the physics on this scale

Use the models on this scale

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The Fatigue Process

„ Crack nucleation
„ Small crack growth in an elastic-plastic
stress field
„ Macroscopic crack growth in a nominally
elastic stress field
„ Final fracture

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Mechanisms Crack Nucleation

Nucleation in Slip Bands inside Grain


Nucleation at Grain Boundaries
Nucleation at Inclusions

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1903 - Ewing and Humfrey

Cyclic deformation leads


to the development of slip
bands and fatigue cracks
N = 1,000 N = 2,000

N = 10,000 N = 40,000 Nf = 170,000


Ewing, J.A. and Humfrey, J.C. “The fracture of metals under repeated alterations of stress”,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. A200, 1903, 241-250
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Crack Nucleation

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Slip Band in Copper

Polak, J. Cyclic Plasticity and Low Cycle Fatigue Life of Metals, Elsevier, 1991

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Slip Band Formation

Extrusion

Undeformed
material

Intrusion

Loading Unloading

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Slip Bands

Ma, B-T and Laird C. “Overview of fatigue behavior in copper sinle crystals –II Population, size, distribution and growth
Kinetics of stage I cracks for tests at constant strain amplitude”, Acta Metallurgica, Vol 37, 1989, 337-348
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2124-T4 Cracking in Slip Bands

N = 60 N = 240 N = 300

N = 1200 N = 2000

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Crack at Particle

Material: BS L65 Aluminum


Loading: 63 ksi, R=0 for
500,000+ cycles, followed by 68
ksi, R=0 to failure. Cracks found
during 68 ksi loading.

S. Pearson, “Initiation of Fatigue Cracks in Commercial Aluminum Alloys and the Subsequent Propagation
of Very Short Cracks,” RAE TR 72236, Dec 1972.

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2219-T851 Cracked Particle

10μ
m
James & Morris, ASTM STP 811 Fatigue Mechanisms: Advances in Quantitative Measurement of Physical
Damage, pp. 46-70, 1983.

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Crack at Bonded Particle

Material: BS L65 Aluminum


Loading: 63 ksi, R=0 for
500,000+ cycles, followed by 68
ksi, R=0 to failure. Cracks found
during 68 ksi loading.

S. Pearson, “Initiation of Fatigue Cracks in Commercial Aluminum Alloys and the Subsequent Propagation
of Very Short Cracks,” RAE TR 72236, Dec 1972.

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7075-T6 Cracking at Inclusion

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Crack Initiation at Inclusions

Langford and Kusenberger, “Initiation of Fatigue Cracks in 4340 Steel”, Metallurgical Transactions, Vol 4, 1977, 553-559

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Subsurface Crack Initiation

Y. Murakami, Metal Fatigue: Effects of Small Defects and Nonmetallic Inclusions, 2002

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Fatigue Limit and Strength Correlation
1250 0.6
Fatigue Strength, MPa

1000 0.5

750 0.35

500

250

0 500 1000 1500 2000


Tensile Strength, MPa
From Forrest, Fatigue of Metals, Pergamon Press, London, 1962
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Crack Nucleation Summary

„ Highly localized plastic deformation


„ Surface phenomena
„ Stochastic process

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Surface Damage

surface surface bulk

10 µm 100 µm

20-25 austenitic steel in symmetrical push-pull fatigue


(20°C, Δεp/2= ±0.4%) : short cracks on the surface and in the bulk

From Jacques Stolarz, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines


Presented at LCF 5 in Berlin, 2003
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Stage I and Stage II
loading direction

free
surface

Stage I Stage II
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Stage I Crack Growth
S

Single primary slip system

S
Stage I crack is strongly affected by slip
individual grain
characteristics, microstructure
near - tip plastic zone
dimensions, stress level, extent of near
tip plasticity

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Small Cracks at Notches

notch plastic zone

notch stress field

crack tip plastic zone


D a

Crack growth controlled by the notch plastic strains

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Small Crack Growth

Inconel 718
Δε = 0.02
Nf = 936
1.0 mm
N = 900
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Crack Length Observations
2.5
F-495 H-491

J-603 I-471 C-399


2
Crack Length, mm

G-304

1.5

0.5

0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000

Cycles
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Crack - Microstructure Interactions

da/dN, mm/cycle F

10-6

E 10-7

D A B C

0.03 0.025 0.02 0.015 0.01 0.005 0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025
Crack Length, mm
Akiniwa, Y., Tanaka, K., and Matsui, E.,”Statistical Characteristics of Propagation of Small Fatigue Cracks in Smooth
Specimens of Aluminum Alloy 2024-T3, Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. A104, 1988, 105-115
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Strain-Life Data
10μm 1mm
1 100 μm fracture Crack size
Δε
2

0.1
Strain Amplitude

0.01

10-3

10-4

10-5
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Reversals, 2Nf
Most of the life is spent in microcrack growth in the
plastic strain dominated region

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Stage II Crack Growth

Locally, the crack grows in shear


Macroscopically it grows in tension

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Long Crack Growth

Plastic zone size is much larger than the material


microstructure so that the microstructure does not
play such an important role.

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Crack Growth Rates of Metals

Material strength does not play a major role in fatigue crack growth

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Stresses Around a Crack
Maximum Load σ

monotonic plastic zone

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Stresses Around a Crack (continued)
Minimum Load σ

ε
σ
cyclic plastic zone

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Crack Closure
a b c

S=0 S = 175 S = 250


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Crack Opening Load
Damaging portion of loading history

Opening load

Nondamaging portion of loading history

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Mode I, Mode II, and Mode III
Mode I Mode II Mode III
opening in-plane shear out-of-plane shear

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Mode I Growth

crack growth direction


5 μm

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Mode II Growth

shear stress
slip bands

10 μm

crack growth direction

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1045 Steel - Tension
1.0
Damage Fraction N/Nf

0.8

0.6 Tension

0.4

Shear
0.2 Nucleation
100 μm crack
0
2 3 4 5 6 7
1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Fatigue Life, 2Nf

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1045 Steel - Torsion
1.0
Tension
Damage Fraction N/Nf

0.8
f

0.6

0.4

0.2 Shear

Nucleation
0
2 3 4 5 6 7
1 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Fatigue Life, 2Nf

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Things Worth Remembering

„ Fatigue is a localized process involving the


nucleation and growth of cracks to failure.
„ Fatigue is caused by localized plastic
deformation.
„ Most of the fatigue life is consumed growing
microcracks in the finite life region
„ Crack nucleation is dominate at long lives.

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Fatigue, How and Why

„ Physics of Fatigue
„ Material Properties
„ Similitude
„ Fatigue Calculator

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Characterization

„ Stress Life Curve


„ Fatigue Limit
„ Strain Life Curve
„ Cyclic Stress Strain Curve
„ Crack Growth Curve
„ Threshold Stress Intensity

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Bending Fatigue

stress amplitude

stress
time
F
stress range

Bending stress:
Mc
σ=
I

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SN Curve
500
Monel Alloy
400
Stress Amplitude, MPa

300

200
0 1x108 2x108 3x108 4x108 5x108
500 Cycles to Failure
400

300

200
105 106 107 108 109
Cycles to Failure
Testing time
@ 30 Hz 1 hour 1 day 1 month 1 year
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Fatigue Strength
Fatigue Life
Alloy 105 106 107 108 109
2014-T4 290 235 186 152 138
2024-T4 297 214 166 145 138
6061-T6 186 152 117 104 90
7075-T6 276 200 166 152 145

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6061-T6 Aluminum Test Data

Sharpe et. al. Fatigue Design of Aluminum Components and Structures , 1996
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SN Curve for Steel
104

ΔS
Stress Amplitude, MPa

= S'f (Nf )
b

2
1000

fatigue limit

100
102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109
Cycles
The fatigue limit is usually only found in steel laboratory specimens
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Very High Cycle Fatigue of Steel
104

surface failures conventional internal


Stress Amplitude, MPa

large inclusions fatigue limit inclusions

1000

100
103 104 105 106 107 108 109 1010
Cycles

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Fatigue Damage
10000
ΔS
Stress Amplitude, MPa = S'f (Nf )
b

2
1000 1
10

100
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Cycles

1
⎛ ΔS ⎞ b
Nf = ⎜⎜ ' ⎟⎟
⎝ 2 Sf ⎠

Damage ∝ ΔS10

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Fatigue Limit Strength Correlation
1250 0.6
Fatigue Strength, MPa

1000 0.5

750 0.35

500

250

0 500 1000 1500 2000


Tensile Strength, MPa
From Forrest, Fatigue of Metals, Pergamon Press, London, 1962
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Fatigue Limit Strength Correlation

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SN Materials Data
10000 93 steels
17 aluminums
Stress Amplitude, MPa

1000

100

10
1 10 102 103 104 105 106 107
Fatigue Life, Reversals

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Strain Controlled Testing

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Cyclic Hardening / Softening

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Stable Hysteresis Loop

Hysteresis loop
Δσ

Δεp Δεe
Δε
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Strain-Life Data σ−ε
Δσ 600
2
500
Stress Amplitude

400
Δε Δσ ⎛ Δσ ⎞
1/ n'
300 = +⎜ ⎟
2 2E ⎝ 2 K'⎠
200

100

0
0 0.004 0.008 0.012
Δε
Strain Amplitude
2
During cyclic deformation, the material deforms on a path
described by the cyclic stress strain curve
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Cyclic Stress Strain Curve

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Strain-Life Data Δε - 2Nf

1
Δε
2

0.1
Strain Amplitude

0.01

0.001

10-4

10-5
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Reversals, 2Nf
2 Reversals, 2Nf = 1 Cycle, Nf
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Elastic and Plastic Strain-Life Data

1
Δε
2

Plastic
0.1
Strain Amplitude

0.01

0.001 Elastic

10-4

10-5
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Reversals, 2Nf
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Strain-Life Curve
ε'f
1 Δε σ'f
= (2Nf )b + ε'f (2Nf )c
Δε
2

2 E
0.1 c
Strain Amplitude

0.01

b
0.001
σ'f
10-4
E
2Nt
10-5
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Reversals, 2Nf
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Transition Fatigue Life

From Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 1999


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εN Materials Data
10
93 steels

1 17 aluminums
Strain Amplitude

0.1

10-2

10-3

10-4
1 10 102 103 104 105 106 107

Fatigue Life, Reversals


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Crack Growth Testing

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Stress Concentration of a Crack

ρ
a
K T = 1+ 2
2a ρ

KT ~ 2000
for a crack
σlocal = 2000 σapplied
a ~ 10-3
ρ ~ 10-9

Traditional material properties like tensile strength


are not very useful for cracked structures

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Stress Intensity Factor
σ K = σ πa

K characterizes the magnitude of the


stresses, strains, and displacements in the
neighborhood of a crack tip

Two cracks with the same K will have


2a the same behavior

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Crack Growth Measurements
σ
σ2 σ1

Crack size

a2 da
dN
2a a1

σ
Cycles

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Crack Growth Data
10-6

Crack Growth Rate, m/cycle 10-7


Kc
10-8

da
10-9 = C ΔK m
dN
10-10 m~3

10-11

10-12
1 10 100
ΔKTH ΔK,MPa m
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Threshold Region

⎛a⎞
ΔK TH > Δσ πa f ⎜ ⎟
⎝w⎠
threshold stress intensity
flaw shape

flaw size

operating stresses

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Threshold Stress Intensity

From Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 1999


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Non-propagating Crack Sizes
Small cracks are frequently semielliptical surface cracks

2
ΔK TH > Δσ 1.12 πa
π
2
⎛ ΔK TH ⎞
ac = 0.63 ⎜ ⎟
⎝ Δσ ⎠
σu
Smooth specimen fatigue limit ≈
2
2
⎛ ΔK TH ⎞
ac = 2.52 ⎜⎜ ⎟⎟
⎝ σu ⎠

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Non-propagating Crack Sizes
1
ΔK TH = 5 MPa m
Crack Size, mm

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

0
0 500 1000 1500 2000
Ultimate Strength, MPa

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Stable Crack Growth
10-6

Crack Growth Rate, m/cycle 10-7


Kc
10-8

da
10-9 = C ΔK m
dN
10-10

Stable growth region


10-11

10-12
1 10 100
ΔKTH ΔK,MPa m
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Crack Growth Data
σyield
252
Ferritic-Pearlitic Steel:
10-6

( )
273
392 da 3.0
= 6.9 × 10 −12 ΔK MPa m
Crack Growth Rate, m/cycle

415

dN
Martensitic Steel:
10-7 da
dN
= 1.4 × 10 −10 ΔK MPa m ( ) 2.25

Austenitic Stainless Steel:

10-8
da
dN
= 5.6 × 10 −12 ΔK MPa m ( ) 3.25

5 10 100
ΔK, MPa√m

Barsom, “Fatigue Crack Propagation in Steels of Various Yield Strengths”


Journal of Engineering for Industry, Trans. ASME, Series B, Vol. 93, No. 4, 1971, 1190-1196
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Aluminum Crack Growth Rate Data

Sharp, Nordmark and Menzemer, Fatigue Design of Aluminum Components and Structures, 1996

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Crack Growth Data
50
Crack Length, mm

40

30

20

10

0
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Cycles x103

Virkler, Hillberry and Goel, “The Statistical Nature of Fatigue Crack Propagation”, Journal of Engineering Materials
and Technology, Vol. 101, 1979, 148-153
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Things Worth Remembering

Method Physics Size


Stress-Life Crack Nucleation 0.01 mm
Strain-Life Microcrack Growth 0.1 - 1 mm
Crack Growth Macrocrack Growth > 1mm

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„ Similitude
„ Fatigue Calculator

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Fatigue Analysis

Material
Data

Component Fatigue
Analysis
Geometry Life Estimate
?
Service
Loading

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The Similitude Concept

Why Fatigue Modeling Works !

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What is the Similitude Concept

The “Similitude Concept” allows engineers to


relate the behavior of small-scale cyclic
material test specimens, defined under
carefully controlled conditions, to the likely
performance of real structures subjected to
variable amplitude fatigue loads under either
simulated or actual service conditions.

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Fatigue Analysis Techniques

Stress - Life
BS 7608, Eurocode 3
Strain - Life
Crack Growth

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Life Estimation

Method Physics Size


Stress-Life Crack Nucleation 0.01 mm
BS 7608 Crack Growth 1 - 10 mm
Strain-Life Microcrack Growth 0.1 - 1 mm
Crack Growth Macrocrack Growth > 1mm

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Stress-Life Fatigue Modeling

Fixed
End

P
10000
Stress Amplitude, MPa

1000 The Similitude Concept states that if the


instantaneous loads applied to the ‘test’
structure (wing spar, say) and the test
100 specimen are the same, then the response
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
Cycles in each case will also be the same and can
be described by the material’s S-N curve.

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Fatigue Analysis: Stress-Life

Material SN curve
Data Ka, Ks, …

Component Fatigue
Kf Analysis
Geometry Life Estimate

Service
Loading ΔS , Sm

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Stress-Life

„ Major Assumptions:
„ Most of the life is consumed nucleating cracks
„ Elastic deformation
„ Nominal stresses and material strength control
fatigue life
„ Accurate determination of Kf for each geometry
and material

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Stress-Life

„ Advantages:
„ Changes in material and geometry can easily be
evaluated
„ Large empirical database for steel with standard
notch shapes

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Stress-Life

„ Limitations:
„ Does not account for notch root plasticity
„ Mean stress effects are often in error
„ Requires empirical Kf for good results

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BS 7608 Fatigue Modeling

The Similitude Concept states that if the


1000 instantaneous loads applied to the ‘test’
Stress Range, MPa

structure (welded beam on a bulldozer, say)


100
and the test specimen (standard fillet weld)
are the same, then the response in each
case will also be the same and can be
10 described by one of the standard BS 7608
105 106 107 108
Cycles Weld Classification S-N curves.

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Weld Classifications

D E

F2 G

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Fatigue Analysis: BS 7608

Material
Weld SN curve
Data

Component Fatigue
Class Analysis
Geometry Life Estimate

Service
Loading ΔS

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BS 7608

„ Major Assumptions:
„ Crack growth dominates fatigue life
„ Complex weld geometries can be described by a
standard classification
„ Results independent of material and mean stress
for structural steels

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BS 7608

„ Advantages:
„ Manufacturing effects are directly included
„ Large empirical database exists

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BS 7608

„ Limitations:
„ Difficult to determine weld class for complex
shapes
„ No benefit for improving manufacturing process

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Strain-Life Fatigue Modeling

1
The Similitude Concept states that if the
instantaneous strains applied to the ‘test’
0.1
structure (vehicle suspension, say) and the
Strain Amplitude

0.01 test specimen are the same, then the


0.001 response in each case will also be the same
10-4 and can be described by the material’s e-N
10-5
curve. Due account can also be made for
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 stress concentrations, variable amplitude
Reversals, 2Nf
loading etc.

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Fatigue Analysis: Strain-Life

Material εN curve
Data σε curve

Component Fatigue
Kf Analysis
Geometry Life Estimate

Service
Loading ΔS , Sm

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Strain-Life

„ Major Assumptions:
„ Local stresses and strains control fatigue
behavior
„ Plasticity around stress concentrations
„ Accurate determination of Kf

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Strain-Life

„ Advantages:
„ Plasticity effects
„ Mean stress effects

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Strain-Life

„ Limitations:
„ Requires empirical Kf
„ Long life situations where surface finish and
processing variables are important

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Crack Growth Fatigue Modeling

The Similitude Concept


states that if the stress
intensity (K) at the tip of a
crack in the ‘test’ structure
(welded connection on an oil
platform leg, say) and the
test specimen are the same,
10-6 then the crack growth
response in each case will
Crack Growth Rate, m/cycle

10-7
also be the same and can be
10-8
described by the Paris
10-9 relationship. Account can
10-10 also be made for local
chemical environment, if
10-11
necessary.
10-12
1 10 100
ΔK,MPa m

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Fatigue Analysis: Crack Growth

Material
da/dN curve
Data

Component Fatigue
K Analysis
Geometry Life Estimate

Service
Loading ΔS , Sm

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Crack Growth

„ Major Assumptions:
„ Nominal stress and crack size control fatigue life
„ Accurate determination of initial crack size

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Crack Growth

„ Advantage:
„ Only method to directly deal with cracks

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Crack Growth

„ Limitations:
„ Complex sequence effects
„ Accurate determination of initial crack size

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Choose the Right Model

„ Similitude
„ Failure mechanism
„ Size scale

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Design Philosophy

„ Safe Life
„ Damage Tolerant

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Safe Life
500

Stress Amplitude, MPa


400

300

200
99 90 50 10 1
Percent Survival
100

0
104 105 106 107 108 109
Fatigue Life

Choose an appropriate risk and replace critical parts


after some specified interval

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Damage Tolerant

Inspection
Crack size

a2

a1
Safe Operating Life

Cycles

Inspect for cracks larger than a1 and repair

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Inspection

A Boeing 777 costs $250,000,000

A new car costs $25,000

For every $1 spent inspecting and maintaining a


B 777 you can spend only 0.01¢ on a car

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Things Worth Remembering

„ Questions to ask
„ Will a crack nucleate ?
„ Will a crack grow ?
„ How fast will it grow ?
„ Similitude
„ Failure mechanism
„ Size Scale

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„ Physics of Fatigue
„ Material Properties
„ Similitude
„ Fatigue Calculator

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www.FatigueCalculator.com

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Constant Amplitude Calculators

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Finders

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Deterministic Analysis

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Deterministic Analysis (continued)

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Deterministic Analysis (continued)

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Deterministic Analysis Results

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Probabilistic Analysis

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Probabilistic Analysis (continued)

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Probabilistic Analysis (continued)

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Probabilistic Analysis Results

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Fatigue and Fracture
( Basic Course )

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