Scatter of fatigue data owing to material microscopic effects  

作　　者：TANG XueSong 

机构地区：[1]Department of Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Changsha University of Science and Technology

出　　处：《Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy)》2014年第1期90-97,共8页中国科学：物理学、力学、天文学（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51378081)

摘　　要：A common phenomenon of fatigue test data reported in the open literature such as S-N curves exhibits the scatter of points for a group of same specimens under the same loading condition.The reason is well known that the microstructure is different from specimen to specimen even in the same group.Specifically,a fatigue failure process is a multi-scale problem so that a fatigue failure model should have the ability to take the microscopic effect into account.A physically-based trans-scale crack model is established and the analytical solution is obtained by coupling the micro-and macro-scale.Obtained is the trans-scale stress intensity factor as well as the trans-scale strain energy density(SED)factor.By taking this trans-scale SEDF as a key controlling parameter for the fatigue crack propagation from micro-to macro-scale,a trans-scale fatigue crack growth model is proposed in this work which can reflect the microscopic effect and scale transition in a fatigue process.The fatigue test data of aluminum alloy LY12 plate specimens is chosen to check the model.Two S-N experimental curves for cyclic stress ratio R=0.02 and R=0.6 are selected.The scattering test data points and two S-N curves for both R=0.02 and R=0.6 are exactly re-produced by application of the proposed model.It is demonstrated that the proposed model is able to reflect the multiscaling effect in a fatigue process.The result also shows that the microscopic effect has a pronounced influence on the fatigue life of specimens.A common phenomenon of fatigue test data reported in the open literature such as S-N curves exhibits the scatter of points for a group of same specimens under the same loading condition. The reason is well known that the microstructure is different from specimen to specimen even in the same group. Specifically, a fatigue failure process is a multi-scale problem so that a fatigue failure model should have the ability to take the microscopic effect into account. A physically-based trans-scale crack model is established and the analytical solution is obtained by coupling the micro- and macro-scale. Obtained is the trans-scale stress intensity factor as well as the trans-scale strain energy density （SED） factor. By taking this trans-scale SEDF as a key controlling parameter for the fatigue crack propagation from micro- to macro-scale, a trans-scale fatigue crack growth model is proposed in this work which can reflect the microscopic effect and scale transition in a fatigue process. The fatigue test data of aluminum alloy LY12 plate specimens is chosen to check the model. Two S-N experimental curves for cyclic stress ratio R--0.02 and R=0.6 are selected. The scattering test data points and two S-N curves for both R=0.02 and R=0.6 are exactly re-produced by application of the proposed model. It is demonstrated that the proposed model is able to reflect the multiscaling effect in a fatigue process. The result also shows that the microscopic effect has a pronounced influence on the fatigue life of specimens

关 键 词：fracture mechanics fatigue crack growth multiscaling effect S-N curve microscopic effect trans-scale 

分 类 号：O346.2[理学—固体力学] TB30[理学—力学]