• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.182-191
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• 2002

The reliable stress intensity factor analysis is required for fracture mechanics design or safety evaluation of mechanical joints at which cracks often initiate and grow. It has been reported that cracks in mechanical joints usually nucleate as corner cracks at the faying surface of joints and grow as elliptical arc through cracks. In this paper, three dimensional finite element analyses are performed for elliptical arc through cracks in mechanical joints. Thereafter stress intensity factors along elliptical crack front including two surface points are determined by the virtual crack closure technique. Virtual crack closure technique is a method to calculate stress intensity factor using the finite element analysis and can be applied to non-orthogonal mesh. As a result, the effects of clearance on the stress intensity factor are investigated and crack shape are then predicted.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1996-2008
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• 2004

A seamless analysis of material behavior incorporating complex geometry and crack- tip modeling is one of greatly interesting topics in engineering and computational fracture mechanics fields. However, there are still large gaps between the industrial applications and fundamental academic studies due to a time consuming detailed modeling. In order to resolve this problem, a numerical method to calculate an energy release rate by virtual crack closure technique was proposed in this paper. Both free mesh method and finite element method have been utilized and, thereafter, robust local and global elements for various geometries and boundary conditions were generated. A validity of the proposed method has been demonstrated through a series of fracture mechanics analyses without tedious crack-tip meshing.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2002

Delamination means that cracking occurs on the interface layer between composite laminates. In this paper, to predict the delamination growth in composite laminates subjected to low-velocity impact, the unit load method was introduced, and an eighteen-node 3-D finite element analysis, based on assumed strain mixed formulation, was conducted. Strain energy release rate, necessary to determine the delamination growth, was calculated by using the virtual crack closure technique. The unit load method saves the computation time more than the re-meshing method. The virtual crack closure technique enables the strain energy release rate to be easily calculated, because information of the singular stress field near the crack tip is not required. Hence, the delamination growth in composite laminates that are subjected to low-velocity impact can be efficiently predicted using the above-mentioned methods.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제32권1A호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 V형 노치 및 반원형 노치 균열을 갖는 패치보강 적층판의 응력확대계수 산정을 위하여 수치해석적 방법을 사용한다. p-수렴 비등매개변수 모델이 고려되고, 이와 같은 비등매개변수 모델의 결과를 활용한 3차원 가상균열닫힘법에 대한 식이 표현된다. 1차원 로바토 함수로부터 확장된 3차원 계층적 형상함수를 가지고서, 임의의 요소에서의 변위장의 변위-변형률 관계와 3차원 구성방정식이 표현된다. 원형경계의 기하형상을 나태내기 위해 초유한사상기법을 사용한다. 응력집중계수, 응력분포, 자유도, 그리고 무차원 응력확대계수 등의 항목에 대해서, 제안된 모델의 정확도와 단순성이 기존의 결과들과의 비교를 통해 설명된다. 균열 적층판의 폭, 높이, 노치근입부의 반경, V형 노치의 경사각, 균열길이 등의 변화에 따른 응력확대계수가 산정된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.731-744
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• 2004

Modified virtual crack closure integral (MVCCI) technique has become very popular for computation of strain energy release rate (SERR) and stress intensity factor (SIF) for 2-D crack problems. The objective of this paper is to propose a numerical integration procedure for MVCCI so as to generalize the technique and make its application much wider. This new procedure called as numerically integrated MVCCI (NI-MVCCI) will remove the dependence of MVCCI equations on the type of finite element employed in the basic stress analysis. Numerical studies on fracture analysis of 2-D crack (mode I and II) problems have been conducted by employing 4-noded, 8-noded (regular & quarter-point), 9-noded and 12-noded finite elements. For non-singular (regular) elements at crack tip, NI-MVCCI technique generates the same results as MVCCI, but the advantage for higher order regular and singular elements is that complex equations for MVCCI need not be derived. Gauss numerical integration rule to be employed for 8-noded singular (quarter-point) element for accurate computation of SERR and SIF has been recommended based on the numerical studies.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2159-2167
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• 2006

In order to find out a physical quantity which controls the fatigue life of a structure and to predict the fatigue life of tires, a finite element simulation methodology to use the cracking energy density (CED) and the virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) was proposed and applied to three different tires of a similar size. CED was calculated to predict the location of a crack initiation, and VCCT was used to obtain the strain energy release rate (SERR) at the tip of an initiated crack. Finite element simulations showed that SERR oscillated in the circumferential direction with its minimum occurring just before the contact zone and its maximum occurring just after the center of the contact zone, and SERR was affected significantly by the frictional force acting on the crack surface. In addition, a durability test was conducted to measure the fatigue life of the three tires. The comparison of SERR values with the test data revealed that the fatigue life increased as the amplitude of SERR decreased or as the R-ratio of SERR increased.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 이종재질로 구성된 세장비가 큰 보의 차원축소와 복원의 효율성과 정확성을 입증하기 위하여 VABS와 3차원 유한요소해석 모델의 결과와 비교하였다. 그리고 3차원 유한요소모델과 차원축소 모델을 가상균열닫힘법을 이용하여 에너지 해방률을 계산하였다. 원형과 사각형의 단면에 초기 크랙을 가진 수치모델을 이용하여 보의 차원축소와 복원기법 및 가상균열닫힘법을 이용하여 복원해석 결과 및 에너지 해방률을 비교하여 효율성과 정확성을 입증하였다. 특히 제시된 에너지 해방률 계산 기법은 고고도 무인기의 날개, 헬리콥터 로터 블레이드, 풍력 블레이드, 틸트로터 등의 정적, 동적 모델링 및 수명평가에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2010

This study examined how the fracture toughness is affected according to the variation of the initial crack length and the fiber arranged angle using FEA method and experimental method. Therefore, the energy release rates were calculated and compared by J-integral method and VCCT(Virtual Crack Closure Technique). The results of fracture toughness test verified these results. At this time, the locus method was used in order to determine the energy release rate. When the results of FEA were compared with those of experiment, all of those decreased with the increase of angle between load and the fiber arranged direction. The decrease was due to reducing maximum load and stiffness, and the reason of reduction has been judged that the inplane shear stress.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 직교이방성 적층평판에서의 균열생성 및 전파로 이루어진 층간분리해석을 다룬다. 기존의 p-유한요소가 가지고 있는 요소의 강건성을 균열진전해석에 적용하여, 균열진전시 모델링을 재구성하지 않고, 균열 선단부에 해당되는 꼭지점 모드의 위치만을 이동하도록 하여, 요소망을 단순화시켰다. 이와 같은 층간분리해석에 대해서 이 논문에서의 주요 목적은 다음 두 가지이다. 첫째, 적층복합 재료의 층간분리해석 시, 일반적인 유한요소 모델과 비교하여 매우 간단한 요소망을 가지는 모델을 제안하는 것이다. 모델의 타당성을 평가하기 위해 적층 복합재료로 구성된 이중 외팔보 해석을 통하여, 기존 참고문헌 값과의 비교를 수행하였다. 둘째, 제안된 모델을 내부균열을 갖는 적층평판의 층간분리해석에 적용하여 여러 가지 거동 양상에 대한 평가이다. 이와 같은 목적을 수행하기 위하여 로바토 형상함수를 이용한 완전층별요소가 고려되었으며, 선형탄성파괴역학에 기초한 3차원 가상균열닫힘법을 이용하여 에너지 방출률을 산정하였다.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2020

In this paper the crack growth, modeling, and simulation of the stiffened and un-stiffened cracked panels presented using commercially available finite element software packages. Computation of stresses and convergence of stress intensity factor for single edge notch (SEN) specimens carried out using the finite element method (FEM) and extended finite element method (XFEM) and compared with an analytical solution. XFEM techniques like cohesive segment method and LEFM using virtual crack closure technique (VCCT), used for crack growth analysis and presented results for un-stiffened and stiffened panels considering various crack domain. The non-linear analysis considering both geometric and material non-linearity on stiffened panels with various stringers like a blade, L, inverted T and Z sections the results were presented. Arrived at the optimum stringer section type for the considered panel under axial loading from the numerical analysis.