ISSN:
1662-8985
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The problem of multiple site damage (MSD) has got more attention in ageing structures.Cumulative effects of interacting cracks may significantly degrade the damage tolerance capacity ofstructures. Cracks caused by MSD are extremely difficult to detect and greatly reduce the residualstrength, fatigue life and overall structural integrity of aircraft panels. This paper presents a simplenumerical method, which use the principles of fracture mechanics and the computation results, topredict the fatigue crack growth life of MSD structure. Comparing with calculating crack growth lifecycle by cycle, this method will save much time. To verify the validity of the proposed method,experiment was conducted and reported with simulation specimen of representative MSD structurewith 5 details. The comparison between the calculated a-N curves and the crack growth lives and thetest results shows that the prediction result with this fast method is acceptable. A discussion wascarried out by numerical analysis; in with typical MSD structures with different initial crack lengthwere adopted. Crack interaction effect was found obviously, but it occurred mainly in the last part ofthe crack growth lives. The relative size of MSD cracks depends significantly on the distribution ofthe initial cracks
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/40/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAMR.33-37.175.pdf
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