Jie Wang1, Wei Jiang1,*, Qi Wang1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.118, No.2, pp. 377-395, 2019, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2019.01836
Abstract A elastic-plastic fatigue crack growth (FCG) finite element model was developed for predicting crack growth rate under cyclic load. The propagation criterion for this model was established based on plastically dissipated energy. The crack growth simulation under cyclic computation was implemented through the ABAQUS scripting interface. The predictions of this model are in good agreement with the results of crack propagation experiment of compact tension specimen made of 304 stainless steel. Based on the proposed model, the single peak overload retardation effect of elastic-plastic fatigue crack was analyzed. The results shows that the single peak More >