Numerical simulation of residual stresses at the grain and sub-grain length scale using atomistic modeling∗

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
R. Rentsch ◽  
E. Brinksmeier
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 628-634
Author(s):  
Jing Chen ◽  
Liying Wang ◽  
Zhendong Shi ◽  
Zhen Dai ◽  
Meiqing Guo

Author(s):  
Dean Deng ◽  
Kazuo Ogawa ◽  
Nobuyoshi Yanagida ◽  
Koichi Saito

Recent discoveries of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) at nickel-based metals in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs) have raised concerns about safety and integrity of plant components. It has been recognized that welding residual stress is an important factor causing the issue of SCC in a weldment. In this study, both numerical simulation technology and experimental method were employed to investigate the characteristics of welding residual stress distribution in several typical welded joints, which are used in nuclear power plants. These joints include a thick plate butt-welded Alloy 600 joint, a dissimilar metal J-groove set-in joint and a dissimilar metal girth-butt joint. First of all, numerical simulation technology was used to predict welding residual stresses in these three joints, and the influence of heat source model on welding residual stress was examined. Meanwhile, the influence of other thermal processes such as cladding, buttering and heat treatment on the final residual stresses in the dissimilar metal girth-butt joint was also clarified. Secondly, we also measured the residual stresses in three corresponding mock-ups. Finally, the comparisons of the simulation results and the measured data have shed light on how to effectively simulate welding residual stress in these typical joints.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gremaud ◽  
W. Cheng ◽  
I. Finnie ◽  
M. B. Prime

Introducing a thin cut from the surface of a part containing residual stresses produces a change in strain on the surface. When the strains are measured as a function of the depth of the cut, residual stresses near the surface can be estimated using the compliance method. In previous work, the unknown residual stress field was represented by a series of continuous polynomials. The present paper shows that for stress states with steep gradients, superior predictions are obtained by using “overlapping piecewise functions” to represent the stresses. The stability of the method under the influence of random errors and a zero shift is demonstrated by numerical simulation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 83-86 ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastien Gallée ◽  
Antoine Martin ◽  
Vincent Robin ◽  
Daniel Nelias

The manufacturing of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) vacuum vessel involves the welding of thick deformed plates. The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of forming residual stresses on the welding distortions of two thick plates. The plates are deformed using a three point rolling process. A first numerical simulation is performed to investigate the residual stresses induced by this process. The forming residual stresses are taken into account as initial conditions to perform the electron beam welding simulation of a deformed plate. This simulation first requires calibrating the heat source. Two welding simulations are then performed: the first one with residual stresses and the second one without. The comparison of the simulation results points out a low effect of the residual stresses on the electron beam welding distortions. As a result, in the next electron beam welding simulations of the vacuum vessel, no forming residual stresses will be taken into account.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52-54 ◽  
pp. 1062-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Jun Hu ◽  
Peng Qin ◽  
Peng Guo ◽  
Yang An

Numerical simulations for the Ahmed model with 25° slant angle are performed under three different turbulent parameters, intensity and length scale, intensity and viscosity ratio, k and epsilon. The external flow field of ahmed model with 25° slant angle is got, and all the velocity vectors, pressure distribution and the drag coefficient of the flow field are obtained as well. The comparison between the numerical simulations and the experimental statistics shows that intensity and viscosity and k and epsilon characterized by higher computation accuracy are more suitable for numerical simulation of automotive external flow field.


Author(s):  
Marco Vanni

The stresses acting on aggregates smaller than the Kolmogorov length scale in homogeneous isotropic turbulence were estimated by a two-scale numerical simulation. The fluid dynamics at the scales larger than the Kolmogorov length scale was calculated by a Direct Numerical Simulation of the turbulent flow, in which the aggregates were modeled as point particles. Then, we adopted Stokesian Dynamics to evaluate the phenomena governed by the smooth velocity field of the smallest scales. At this level the disordered structure of the aggregates was modeled in detail, in order to take into account the role that the primary particles have in generating and transferring the internal stress. From this result, it was possible to evaluate the internal forces acting at intermonomer contacts and determine the occurrence of breakup as a consequence of the failure of intermonomer bonds. The method was applied to disordered aggregates with isostatic and highly hyperstatic structures, respectively.


2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1396-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwan Anderson Ariza ◽  
Marcelo Aquino Martorano ◽  
Nelson Batista de Lima ◽  
André Paulo Tschiptschin

2009 ◽  
Vol 209 (6) ◽  
pp. 2907-2917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zain-ul-Abdein ◽  
Daniel Nelias ◽  
Jean-François Jullien ◽  
Dominique Deloison

2011 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 218-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Li Wang ◽  
Wei Lian Qu ◽  
Jie He

The dynamic stress-strain and welding residual stress during welding are the significant factors which lead to welded cracking and debasement of the joint properties. Therefore, the welding residual stresses are still very importang problems.A large number of guyed mast accidents study shows that the welded joints of earplate and shaft were easily to be destroyed. Therefore, the accurate assessment of the guyed maste earplate joint substructure’s welding residual stress is of great significance. The theory and method of simulation of the welding temperature field and welding stress field by finite element method is first introduced, and then the earplate substructure refine model is established which was up to the welding numerical simulation. Based on ANSYS software’s APDL language to apply the welding heat source load, we can get and save the welding temperature field results at each time. Conversing the thermal analysis element into structure element to finish the caculation of the welding stress field. Eventually by adopting the elimination remnant technology to remove the part of welding residual stresses, we can got the final welding residual stress in different relieving proportion.


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