Masanori Kikuchi1, Yoshitaka Wada2, Hitomi Suyama3, YuLong Li4
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 222-224, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.009.222
Abstract Prediction of fatigue crack growth in mechanical component is one of the most important problems to prevent catastrophic fracture accident. FEM is generally used for this purpose, but as crack shape changes during growing process, it is necessary to re-mesh for new crack shape. It is time consuming and is very difficult especially for 3-d. problem.
In this study, S-version FEM[1][2] is employed to solve this problem, and fully automatic crack growth simulation system is made by combining with automatic mesh generationsystem. In the 3-d. field, crack tip stressconditionbecomes under mixed mode condition, and three stress… More >