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Keisuke Tanaka1, Yoshiaki Akiniwa2
1School of Engineering, Nagoya University, 4-7-203 Ketsuzen-cho, Nishinomiya 662-0037, Japan.
Abstract:
Understanding short fatigue-crack propagation behavior is inevitable in the defect-tolerant design of structures. Short cracks propagate differently from long cracks, and the amount of crack closure plays a key role in the propagation behavior of short cracks. In the present paper, the buildup of fatigue-crack closure due to plasticity with crack extension from crack-like defects is simulated with a modified strip yield model, which leaves plastic stretch in the wake of the advancing crack. Crack-like defects are assumed to be closure-free and do not close even under compression. The effect of the size of crack-like defects on the growth and arrest of short cracks was systematically investigated and the cyclic R-curve derived. The cyclic R-curve determined under constant amplitude loading of multiple specimens is confirmed to be independent of the initial defect length. Load-shedding and ΔK-constant loading tests are employed to extend the cyclic R-curve beyond the fatigue limit determined under constant amplitude loading. The initiation stage of cracks is taken into account in R-curves when applied to smooth specimens.
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