Damage Mechanics Based Fatigue Life Prediction for 63Sn-37Pb Solder Material

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Wei ◽  
C. L. Chow ◽  
M. K. Neilsen ◽  
H. E. Fang

Abstract This paper presents a method of TMF analysis based on the theory of damage mechanics to examine the fatigue damage accumulation in 63Sn-37Pb solder. The method is developed by extending a viscoplastic damage model proposed earlier by the authors (Wei, et al 1999, 2000). A computer simulation is carried out to calculate hysteresis loops at three different strain ranges. The damage-coupled fatigue damage model is applied to predict the cyclic softening behavior of the material and the prediction is found to agree well with the experiment. With a proposed failure criterion based on the concept of damage accumulation, the TMF model is also found to predict successfully the fatigue life of 63Sn-37Pb solder.

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. R. Bomidi ◽  
Nick Weinzapfel ◽  
Trevor Slack ◽  
Sina Mobasher Moghaddam ◽  
Farshid Sadeghi ◽  
...  

This paper presents the results of torsion fatigue of widely used bearing steels (through hardening with bainite, martensite heat treatments, and case hardened). An MTS torsion fatigue test rig (TFTR) was modified with custom mechanical grips and used to evaluate torsional fatigue life and failure mechanism of bearing steel specimen. Tests were conducted on the TFTR to determine the ultimate strength in shear (Sus) and stress cycle (S-N) results. Evaluation of the fatigue specimens in the high cycle regime indicates shear driven crack initiation followed by normal stress driven propagation, resulting in a helical crack pattern. A 3D finite element model was then developed to investigate fatigue damage in torsion specimen and replicate the observed fatigue failure mechanism for crack initiation and propagation. In the numerical model, continuum damage mechanics (CDM) were employed in a randomly generated 3D Voronoi tessellated mesh of the specimen to provide unstructured, nonplanar, interelement, and inter/transgranular paths for fatigue damage accumulation and crack evolution as observed in micrographs of specimen. Additionally, a new damage evolution procedure was implemented to capture the change in fatigue failure mechanism from shear to normal stress assisted crack growth. The progression of fatigue failure and the stress-life results obtained from the fatigue damage model are in good agreement with the experimental results. The fatigue damage model was also used to assess the influence of topological microstructure randomness accompanied by material inhomogeneity and defects on fatigue life dispersion.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huang ◽  
Ding ◽  
Li ◽  
Zhou ◽  
Huang

Fatigue damage accumulation theory is one of the core contents in structure fatigue strength design and life prediction. Among them, the nonlinear damage model can overcome the shortcomings of the linear damage model, which takes the loading sequence effect into account. Besides, the loading interaction cannot be ignored for its profound influence in damage accumulation behavior. In the paper, some commonly-used methods of the linear and nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation theory are investigated. In particular, a modified nonlinear fatigue damage accumulation model which considers the effects of loading sequences as well as loading interactions on fatigue life is developed, and a load interaction parameter is obtained by analyzing damage models which assumes that the load logarithm ratio between adjacent stress levels can characterize this phenomenon. Finally, the modified model is employed to predict the fatigue life of high pressure turbine disc. Moreover, comparison is made between the experimental data as well as the predicted lives using the Miner’s rule, the Ye’s model, and the modified model.


2014 ◽  
Vol 617 ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Melnikov ◽  
Artem Semenov

Fatigue analysis of steel parts of structures, which are subjected to complex irregular loading programs caused by wind, thermal, wave loads, earthquakes and combined imposed actions, requires in some cases using special methods of stress-strain evaluation. The model of the low cycle fatigue nonlinear damage accumulation is developed with taking into account the history of the deformation process. The damage is defined on the base of considering the quasi-static accumulation of maximal strain (stress) and hysteresis loops. The identification of material constants of the model is discussed. Application of the damage model for fatigue analysis of the antennas, pipelines, basements and fasteners units is considered and a comparison with experiments is given.


Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Szusta ◽  
Andrzej Seweryn

This article presents an approach related to the modeling of the fatigue life of constructional metal alloys working under elevated temperature conditions and in the high-amplitude load range. The article reviews the fatigue damage accumulation criteria that makes it possible to determine the number of loading cycles until damage occurs. Results of experimental tests conducted on various technical metal alloys made it possible to develop a fatigue damage accumulation model for the LCF (Low Cycle Fatigue) range. In modeling, the material’s damage state variable was defined, and the damage accumulation law was formulated incrementally so as to enable the analysis of the influence of loading history on the material’s fatigue life. In the proposed model, the increment of the damage state variable was made dependent on the increment of plastic strain, on the tensile stress value in the sample, and also on the actual value of the damage state variable. The model was verified on the basis of data obtained from experiments in the field of uniaxial and multiaxial loads. Samples made of EN AW 2024T3 aluminum alloy were used for this purpose.


1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Ronald Lambert

Simple closed-form expressions have been derived to predict fatigue life, damage accumulation, and other fatigue parameters of interest for structural elements with combined sinusoidal (sine) and narrowband Gaussian random stresses. These equations are expressed in common engineering terms. The sine and random only stress situations are special cases of the more general combined sine/random stress situation. They also have application for establishing vibration workmanship screens. Numerical examples are also included.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
DC Pham

A new 3D damage model is developed to predict the progressive failure and accumulated fatigue damage of woven fabric composite materials. Stress-based failure criteria are used to predict the damage initiation in x-tow, y-tow, and matrix constituent. An S-N based damage accumulation model is implemented to characterize the cycle dependent strength of the x- and y- fiber tows and matrix subjected to axial tension, compression, or in-plane share loading. A curve-fit non-linear shear model is also employed based on the static coupon test data of (+45/-45) woven fabric laminates. A static failure progression module is used to predict the damage and failure at the peak load prior to fatigue cycling. Stiffness degradation, fatigue damage accumulation, and failure mode detection are performed during the fatigue marching process. The developed user-defined material model for Abaqus features: 1) description of initial nonlinear shear before the damage initiation; 2) characterization of failure initiation based on a maximum stress criterion; and 3) performance of fatigue damage accumulation using a phenomenological model based on S-N test data. The predictive capabilities of the developed model are demonstrated using tension-tension fatigue of SYNCOGLAS R420 E-glass woven fabrics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-188
Author(s):  
I.A. Volkov ◽  
L.A. Igumnov ◽  
D.N. Shishulin ◽  
V.A. Eremeev

The paper considers processes of fatigue life of materials and structures in the exploitation conditions characterized by multiparametric nonstationary thermal-mechanical effects In the framework of mechanics of damaged media, a mathematical model is developed that describes processes of thermal-plastic deformation and fatigue damage accumulation in materials with degradation according to low- and high-cycle fatigue mechanisms (accounting for their interaction). The model consists of three interconnected parts: relations determining cyclic thermal-plastic behavior of a material, accounting for its dependence on the failure process; equations describing kinetics of fatigue damage accumulation; a strength criterion of the damaged material. The version of the defining relations of thermal plasticity is based on the notion of the yield surface and the principle of orthogonality of the plastic strain rate vector to the yield surface at the loading point and reflects the main effects of the process of cyclic plastic deformation of the material for arbitrarily complex trajectories of combined thermal-mechanical loading. The version of kinetic equations of fatigue damage accumulation is based on introducing a scalar parameter of damage degree and on energy-based principles, and takes into account the main effects of the nucleation, growth and merging of microdefects under arbitrarily complex loading regimes. A generalized form of an evolutionary equation of fatigue damage accumulation in low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue regions is introduced. The condition when the damage degree reaches its critical value is taken as the strength criterion of the damaged material. To assess the reliability and the scope of applicability of the developed defining relations of mechanics of damaged media, processes of thermal-plastic deformation and fatigue damage accumulation have been numerically analyzed, and the numerical results obtained have been compared with the data of full-scale experiments for a particular applied problem. The effect of the dropping frequency of a distillate on thermal cyclic fatigue life of the material of a heated surface of a tube has been numerically analyzed. The computational results for the fatigue damage accumulation processes under thermal pulsed loading are compared with experimental data. It is shown that the developed model describes both qualitatively and, accurately enough for engineering purposes, quantitatively the experimental data and can be effectively used for evaluating thermal-cyclic fatigue life of structures working in the conditions of multiaxial non-proportional regimes of combined thermal-mechanical loading.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1835
Author(s):  
Xi Fu ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
Jiewei Lin ◽  
Junhong Zhang

Axial compressor blades with a deformed initial torsion angle caused by aerodynamic excitation resonated at the working speed and changed the rule of fatigue damage accumulation. The fatigue life of a blade has a prediction error, even causing serious flight accidents if the effect of torque causing damage deterioration of the blade fatigue life is neglected. Therefore, in this paper, a uniaxial non-linear fatigue damage model was modified using the equivalent stress with torsional shear stress, and the proposed fatigue model including the torsional moment was used to study the compressor blade fatigue life. Then, the blade numerical simulation model was established to calculate the vibration characteristics under complex loads of airflow excitation and a rotating centrifugal force. Finally, the blade fatigue life under actual working conditions was predicted using the modified fatigue model. The results show that the interaction between centrifugal and aerodynamic loads affects the natural frequency, as the frequencies in modes dominated by bending deformation decreased whereas those dominated by torsional deformation increased. Furthermore, the blade root of the suction surface showed stress concentration, but there is an obvious difference of stress distribution and amplitude between the normal stress and the equivalent stress including torsional shear stress. The additional consideration of the torsional shear stress decreased the predicted fatigue life by 4.5%. The damage accumulation rate changes with the loading cycle, and it accelerates fast for the last 25% of the cycle, when the blade fracture may occur at any time. Thus, the aerodynamic excitation increased the safety factor of blade fatigue life prediction.


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