scholarly journals An Explicit Creep-Fatigue Model for Engineering Design Purposes

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Liu ◽  
Dirk John Pons

Background: Creep-fatigue phenomena are complex and difficult to model in ways that are useful from an engineering design perspective. Existing empirical-based models can be difficult to apply in practice, have poor accuracy, and lack economy. Need: There is a need to improve on the ability to predict creep-fatigue life, and do so in a way that is applicable to engineering design. Method: The present work modified the unified creep-fatigue model of Liu and Pons by introducing the parameters of temperature and cyclic time into the exponent component. The relationships between them were extracted by investigating creep behavior, and then a reference condition was introduced. Outcomes: The modified formulation was successfully validated on the materials of 63Sn37Pb solder and stainless steel 316. It was also compared against several other models. The results indicate that the explicit model presents better ability to predict fatigue life for both the creep fatigue and pure fatigue situations. Originality: The explicit model has the following beneficial attributes: Integration—it provides one formulation that covers the full range of conditions from pure fatigue, to creep fatigue, then to pure creep; Unified—it accommodates multiple temperatures, multiple cyclic times, and multiple metallic materials; Natural origin—it provides some physical basis for the structure of the formulation, in its consistency with diffusion-creep behavior, the plastic zone around the crack tip, and fatigue capacity; Economy—although two more coefficients were introduced into the explicit model, the economy is not significantly impacted; Applicability—the explicit model is applicable to engineering design for both manual engineering calculations and finite element analysis. The overall contribution is that the explicit model provides improved ability to predict fatigue life for both the creep-fatigue and pure-fatigue conditions for engineering design.

2005 ◽  
Vol 502 ◽  
pp. 393-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Eui Shin ◽  
Yeon Sung Kim ◽  
Hyoung-Il Kim ◽  
Jong Min Kim ◽  
Kyong Ho Chang ◽  
...  

There have been diverse fatigue models and approaches to properly estimate solder joint reliability. However, it is one of the most difficult problems to determine which solder constitutive models and fatigue models can be applied best. In this paper, both viscoplastic and elastic-plastic-creep solder constitutive models could be utilized to calculate accumulated inelastic response under 208 K to 423 K(-65 °C to 150 °C) thermal cycling condition. And two different fatigue models, Darveaux and creep-fatigue model were applied to find solder joints fatigue life for flip chip assembly. Moreover, each fatigue life was compared to experimental result for the validation of finite element analysis. The actual number of cycles to failure was obtained from cross sectional view of the package with SEM.


Author(s):  
Shengde Zhang ◽  
Masao Sakane ◽  
Takamoto Itoh

This paper studies the multiaxial creep-fatigue life for type 304 stainless steel at elevated temperature. Strain controlled biaxial tension-compression creep-fatigue tests were carried out using cruciform specimens under four strain waves at three principal strain ratios. The strain wave and the principal strain ratio had a significant effect on creep-fatigue life of the cruciform specimen. The creep-fatigue life ratio decreased as the principal strain ratio increased which indicates that larger creep damage occurred at larger principal strain ratio. The effects of the strain wave and principal strain ratio were discussed in relation to the observations of surface crack and void area density in the gage part of the specimen. Creep-fatigue lives were discussed in relation to the principal stress amplitude calculated by finite element analysis and creep-fatigue damage was evaluated by linear damage rule.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianyin Hu ◽  
Rongqiao Wang ◽  
Guicang Hou

A new lifetime criterion for withdrawal of turbine components from service is developed in this paper based on finite element (FE) analysis and experimental results. Finite element analysis is used to determine stresses in the turbine component during the imposed cyclic loads and analytically predict a fatigue life. Based on the finite element analysis, the critical section is then subjected to a creep-fatigue test, using three groups of full scale turbine components, attached to an actual turbine disc conducted at 750 °C. The experimental data and life prediction results were in good agreement. The creep-fatigue life of this type of turbine component at a 99.87% survival rate is 30 h.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shijun Chen ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Surong Huang

To more efficiently design high performance vehicular permanent magnet motor, an electromagnetic-thermal integration design method is presented, which considers both the electromagnetic properties and the temperature rise of motor winding when determining the main dimensional parameters of the motor. Then a 48-slot and 8-pole vehicular permanent magnet motor is designed with this method. The thermomagnetic coupling design is simulated and validated on the basis of multiphysical domain on finite element analysis. Then the prototype is analyzed and tested on a newly built motor experiment platform. It is shown that the simulation results and experimental results are consistent, which validate the accuracy and effectiveness of the new design method. Also this method is proved to well improve the efficiency of permanent magnet motor design.


2019 ◽  
Vol 893 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eui Soo Kim

Pressure vessels are subjected to repeated loads during use and charging, which can causefine physical damage even in the elastic region. If the load is repeated under stress conditions belowthe yield strength, internal damage accumulates. Fatigue life evaluation of the structure of thepressure vessel using finite element analysis (FEA) is used to evaluate the life cycle of the structuraldesign based on finite element method (FEM) technology. This technique is more advanced thanfatigue life prediction that uses relational equations. This study describes fatigue analysis to predictthe fatigue life of a pressure vessel using stress data obtained from FEA. The life prediction results areuseful for improving the component design at a very early development stage. The fatigue life of thepressure vessel is calculated for each node on the model, and cumulative damage theory is used tocalculate the fatigue life. Then, the fatigue life is calculated from this information using the FEanalysis software ADINA and the fatigue life calculation program WINLIFE.


Author(s):  
Xian-Kui Zhu ◽  
Rick Wang

Mechanical dents often occur in transmission pipelines, and are recognized as one of major threats to pipeline integrity because of the potential fatigue failure due to cyclic pressures. With matured in-line-inspection (ILI) technology, mechanical dents can be identified from the ILI runs. Based on ILI measured dent profiles, finite element analysis (FEA) is commonly used to simulate stresses and strains in a dent, and to predict fatigue life of the dented pipeline. However, the dent profile defined by ILI data is a purely geometric shape without residual stresses nor plastic deformation history, and is different from its actual dent that contains residual stresses/strains due to dent creation and re-rounding. As a result, the FEA results of an ILI dent may not represent those of the actual dent, and may lead to inaccurate or incorrect results. To investigate the effect of residual stress or plastic deformation history on mechanics responses and fatigue life of an actual dent, three dent models are considered in this paper: (a) a true dent with residual stresses and dent formation history, (b) a purely geometric dent having the true dent profile with all stress/strain history removed from it, and (c) a purely geometric dent having an ILI defined dent profile with all stress/strain history removed from it. Using a three-dimensional FEA model, those three dents are simulated in the elastic-plastic conditions. The FEA results showed that the two geometric dents determine significantly different stresses and strains in comparison to those in the true dent, and overpredict the fatigue life or burst pressure of the true dent. On this basis, suggestions are made on how to use the ILI data to predict the dent fatigue life.


2011 ◽  
Vol 346 ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
Shu Bo Xu ◽  
Yang Xi ◽  
Cai Nian Jing ◽  
Ke Ke Sun

The use of finite element theory and modal analysis theory, the structure of the machine static and dynamic performance analysis and prediction using optimal design method for optimization, the new machine to improve job performance, improve processing accuracy, shorten the development cycle and enhance the competitiveness of products is very important. Selected for three-dimensional CAD modeling software-UG NX4.0 and finite element analysis software-ANSYS to set up the structure of the beam finite element model, and then post on the overall structure of the static and dynamic characteristic analysis, on the basis of optimized static and dynamic performance is more superior double wall structure of the beam. And by changing the wall thickness and the thickness of the inner wall, as well as the reinforcement plate thickness overall sensitivity analysis shows that changes in these three parameters on the dynamic characteristics of post impact. Application of topology optimization methods, determine the optimal structure of the beam ultimately.


Author(s):  
Jürgen Rudolph ◽  
Adrian Willuweit ◽  
Steffen Bergholz ◽  
Christian Philippek ◽  
Jevgenij Kobzarev

Components of conventional power plants are subject to potential damage mechanisms such as creep, fatigue and their combination. These mechanisms have to be considered in the mechanical design process. Against this general background — as an example — the paper focusses on the low cycle fatigue behavior of a main steam shut off valve. The first design check based on standard design rules and linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) identifies fatigue sensitive locations and potentially high fatigue usage. This will often occur in the context of flexible operational modes of combined cycle power plants which are a characteristic of the current demands of energy supply. In such a case a margin analysis constitutes a logical second step. It may comprise the identification of a more realistic description of the real operational loads and load-time histories and a refinement of the (creep-) fatigue assessment methods. This constitutes the basis of an advanced component design and assessment. In this work, nonlinear FEA is applied based on a nonlinear kinematic constitutive material model, in order to simulate the thermo-mechanical behavior of the high-Cr steel component mentioned above. The required material parameters are identified based on data of the accessible reference literature and data from an own test series. The accompanying testing campaign was successfully concluded by a series of uniaxial thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) tests simulating the most critical load case of the component. This detailed and hybrid approach proved to be appropriate for ensuring the required lifetime period of the component.


Author(s):  
Lei Fu ◽  
Yan Shi ◽  
Qinghua Deng ◽  
Huaizhi Li ◽  
Zhenping Feng

The aerodynamic performance, structural strength and wheel weight are three important factors in the design process of the radial turbine. This paper presents an investigation on these aspects and develops an optimization design approach for radial turbine with consideration of the three factors. The aerodynamic design for the turbine wheel with inlet diameter of 230mm for 100kW-class microturbine unit is carried out firstly as the original design. Then, the cylinder parabolic geometrical design method is applied to the wheel modeling and structural design, but the maximum stress predicted by Finite Element Analysis greatly exceeds the yield limit of material. Furthermore, the wheel weight is above 7.2kg thus bringing some critical difficulties for bearing design and turbine operation. Therefore, an integrated optimization design method for radial turbine is studied and developed in this paper with focus on the wheel design. Meridional profiles and shape lines of turbine wheel are optimized with consideration of the whole wheel weight. Main structural modeling parameters are reselected to reduce the wheel weight. Trade-off between aerodynamic performance and strength performance is highly emphasized during the optimization design. The results show that the optimized turbine wheel gets high aerodynamic performance and acceptable stress distribution with the weight less than 3.8kg.


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