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Some Contributions to the Further Development of Low Cycle Fatigue Life Analysis Concepts for Notched Components under Variable Amplitude Loading
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In this article, the authors present the current state in the development of a new three-dimensional elastic-plastic FEM-based fatigue analysis concept, FEMFAT, using a material model according to MrOz's proposal, and the fatigue damage is calculated on the basis of the plastic work as performed at the fatigue critical locations of components.Abstract:
In order to minimize the expenses of the development of engineering components and to reduce the risk of their operation, reliable fatigue life prediction methods have to be available in the design stage. Presently two groups of methods can be distinguished which explicitly account for the local stresses/strains in the fatigue critical areas: the so-called notch analysis concepts or "local approaches," and new developments which are based on finite element methods (FEM). In the first part of the paper typical areas in application of the notch analysis methods and some aspects of their further development are described. The significance of the short crack stage is briefly characterized from a physical and an engineering point of view. In the second part the present state in the development of a new three-dimensional elastic-plastic FEM-based fatigue analysis concept, FEMFAT, is described. FEMFAT uses a material model according to MrOz's proposal, and the fatigue damage is calculated on the basis of the plastic work as performed at the fatigue critical locations of components. A calculation scheme for the damage increments under arbitrary out-of-phase loading based on uniaxial data is proposed. Two examples of the application of FEMFAT are given.read more
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Using experimental loads with finite element analysis for durability predictions
TL;DR: In this paper, an automotive rear suspension twistbeam assembly fitted to a vehicle travelling over a customer correlated Durability route was used to predict the fatigue life of the twistbeam, making use of the integrated concepts of scaling and superposition of linear static finite element analysis being driven by experimental load data.
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Some Remarks to the Application of Damage Mechanics to Low Cycle Fatigue
Franz Dieter Fischer,H. Stüwe +1 more
TL;DR: In low cycle fatigue two variables are usually applied to describe the state of a material as mentioned in this paper : the damage variable D, 0≤D≤DF, defining the damage of the material without any detailed physical explanation.