Determination of the most appropriate mesh size for a 2-D finite element analysis of fatigue crack closure behaviour

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 533-545

  Park, S J ^a   Earmme, Y Y ^a   Song, J H ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crack length fixed method; Fatigue crack closure; Finite element method; Most appropriate mesh size

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE CRACK CLOSURE ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0030698585     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.1997.tb00285.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. W. Eiber (1970) Fatigue crack closure under cyclic tension. Engng Fract. Mech. 2, 37-45.
2. W. Elber (1971) The significance of fatigue crack closure. In: Damage Tolerance in Aircraft Structures, ASTM STP 486, pp. 230-242.
3. K. Ohji, K. Ogura and Y. Ohkubo (1975) Cyclic analysis of a propagating crack and its correlation with fatigue crack growth. Engng Fract. Mech. 7, 457-464.
4. J. C. Newman, Jr. (1976) A finite element analysis of fatigue crack closure. In: Mechanics of Crack Growth, ASTM STP 590, pp. 281-301.
5. K. Ogura and K. Ohji (1977) FEM analysis of crack closure and delay effect in fatigue crack growth under variable amplitude loading. Engng Fract. Mech. 9, 471-480.
6. X. Zhang, A. S. L. Chan and G. A. O. Davies (1992) Numerical simulation of fatigue crack growth under complex loading sequences. Engng Fract. Mech. 42, 305-321.
7. H. C. Choi and J. H. Song (1995) Finite element analysis of closure behaviour of fatigue cracks in residual stress fields. Fatigue Fract. Engng Mater. Struct. 18, 105-117.
8. R. C. McClung and H. Sehitoglu (1989) On the finite element analysis of fatigue crack closure - 1. Basic modelling issues. Engng Fract. Mech. 33, 237-252.
9. R. C. McClung and H. Sehitoglu (1989) On the finite element analysis of fatigue crack closure - 2. Numerical results. Engng Fract. Mech. 33, 253-272.
10. P. Kohnke (1992) ANSYS user's manual for revision 5.0, Vol. IV Theory, Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc., pp. 4.4-4.12.
11. R. D. Krieg and D. B. Krieg (1977) Accuracies of numerical solution methods for the elastic-perfectly plastic model. Transactions of the ASME J. of Pressure Vessel Technology, November, 510-515.
12. J. C. Simo and R. L. Taylor (1985) Consistent tangent operators for rate-independent elastoplasticity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engng 48, 101-118.
13. C. Y. Kim and J. H. Song (1994) Fatigue crack closure and growth behaviour under random loading. Engng Fract. Mech. 49, 105-120.
14. M. Kikukawa, M. Jono and K. Tanaka (1986) Fatigue crack closure behaviour at low stress intensity levels. Proc. ICM 2, 254-277.
15. ASTM E647-95 (1995) Standard test method for measurement of fatigue crack growth rates. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol. 03.01, pp. 578-614.
16. R. C. McClung (1994) Finite element analysis of specimen geometry effects on fatigue crack closure. Fatigue Fract. Engng Mater. Struct. 17, 861-872.
17. G. R. Yoder, L. A. Cooley and T. W. Crooker (1982) On microstructural control of near-threshold fatigue crack growth in 7000-series aluminium alloys. Scripta Metallugica 16, 1021-1025.
18. M. Jono and J. Song (1984) Fatigue crack growth characteristics and crack closure of structural materials. In: Fatigue 84, 2nd International Conference on Fatigue and Fatigue Threshold, Vol. II, Birmingham, U.K., pp. 717-726.
19. M. Kikukawa, M. Jono and Y. Kondo (1981) Study on test method of fatigue crack growth threshold (effect of loading history on crack closure behaviour). J. Soc. Mater. Sci., Japan 30, 276-282 (in Japanese).
20. K. Minakawa and A. J. McEvily (1981) On crack closure in near-threshold region. Scripta Metallugica 15, 633-636.