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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2011.35.11.1415

A Quantitative Analysis of ΔK Conversion Method for the Retardation Behavior of Fatigue Crack Growth in Varying Thickness of Al 2024-T3 Sheet Alloy  

Kim, Seung-Gwon (Division of Mechanical Engineering, Inha Univ.)
Lee, Ouk-Sub (Division of Mechanical Engineering, Inha Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.35, no.11, 2011 , pp. 1415-1422 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sheet aluminum alloys used in manufacturing of machine structures for transportation show the difference of crack growth speed depending on thickness under the constant fatigue stress condition. The referred thickness effect is a major fatigue failure property of sheet aluminum alloys. In this work, we identified the thickness effect in fatigue test of thick plate and thin plate of Al 2024-T3 alloy under the constant fatigue stress condition, and presented the thickness effect to a correlative equation, $U_{i}^{equ}=f(R_t)$ which is determined by the shape factor, thickness ratio, $R_t$ and the loading factor, equivalent effective stress intensity ratio depending on thickness, $U_{i}^{equ}$. And we analyzed quantitatively the crack growth retardation behavior in thin plate compared to thick plate by the thickness effect using ${\Delta}K$ conversion method. We obtained such values as decrement of thickness(DoT), decrement of stress intensity factor range, ${\Delta}K$ (DoS) and identified the relation between them to present the nature of thickness effect in this work.
Keywords
Fatigue Crack Growth; Thickness Effect; Crack Growth Retardation Behavior; Correlative Equation; Equivalent Effective Stress Intensity Factor Range;
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