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Thermal Fatigue Life Prediction of Engine Exhaust Manifold  

Choi, Bok-Lok (Department of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Wonju College)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.15, no.1, 2007 , pp. 139-145 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the low cycle thermal fatigue of the engine exhaust manifold subject to thermomechanical cyclic loadings. The analysis includes the FE model of the exhaust system, temperature dependent material properties, and thermal loadings. The result shows that at an elevated temperature, large compressive plastic deformations are generated, and at a cold condition, tensile stresses are remained in several critical zones of the exhaust manifold. From the repetitions of thermal shock cycles, plastic strain ranges could be estimated by the stabilized stress-strain hysteresis loops. The method was applied to assess the low cycle thermal fatigue for the engine exhaust manifold. It shows a good agreement between numerical and experimental results.
Keywords
Exhaust manifold; Thermal shock test; FEM; Plastic strain amplitude; Thermal fatigue life;
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