Elasto-Plastic Fracture Mechanics Analysis of the Effect of Shot Peening on 300M Steel

A modified J-integral calculation method is adopted to fix the problem of the quantitative evaluation of the crack propagation of shot-peened structures. Considering the residual stress, residual strain, and residual strain energy, the effect of shot peening on the J-integral parameters of semi-elliptic surface crack fronts is quantitatively calculated and a method is provided for the performance evaluation of the shot peening layer. First, the shot peening process is simulated, then the fatigue crack is generated by changing the constraint condition and a far-field load is applied to calculate the J-integral parameters, crack propagation rate, and crack kinking angle. The effects of different crack depths and shot velocities on the fracture parameters are analyzed. The results show that the reduction in the J-integral value after shot peening decreases with the increase in the crack depth when the shot velocity is a certain value, which indicates that shot peening is more beneficial for suppressing the fatigue crack propagation. When the crack depth is greater than the depth of the compressive stress layer, shot peening accelerates the crack propagation. The reduction in the J-integral value decreases with the increase in shot velocity when the crack depth is a certain value; therefore, increasing shot velocity is more beneficial for retarding fatigue crack propagation.