• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.11 s.254
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• pp.1455-1460
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• 2006

The relationship between fatigue crack growth behavior and cyclic crack tip opening displacement is studied. An elastic-plastic finite element analysis (FEA) is performed to examine the growth behavior of fatigue crack, where the contact elements are used in the mesh of the crack tip area. We investigate the relationship between the reversed plastic zone size and the changes of the cyclic crack tip opening displacement along the crack growth. We investigate the effect of the element size when predict fatigue crack opening behavior using the cyclic crack tip opening displacement obtained from FEA. The cyclic crack tip opening displacement is related to fatigue crack opening behavior.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.178-185
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• 2005

Crack tip displacement is originated by tensile stress component, s and shear stress component, t on pure Mode I and pure Mode II. The crack tip displacement(CTD) depends on combined types of different two stress components under mixed-mode loading conditions (MMLC). Thus, the analysis of crack tip displacement must be CTD vector, dv which is composition of ds and dt under MMLC. In this paper, various effects of MMLC on the crack closure are studied experimentally. The crack closure magnitude is calculated from the information of crack tip displacement under MMLC. This information has been obtained from the high resolution optical microscope in direct observations of crack displacement behavior at the crack tip. Observed crack tip displacement is analyzed by using CTD vector to determine crack opening load. The various effects of MMLC on the crack closure are explained using crack opening ratio with crack length and mode mixture. The effective stress intensity factor considering crack closure is also discussed.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.533-538
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• 2009

The magnitude of constraint effect $A_2$ values on the non-linear elastic plastic fracture toughness was experimentally estimated by using displacement at various measuring positions near crack tip. Constraint effect $A_2$ value was dependent on specimen configuration and on the measured displacement near crack front. The crack tip opening displacement in the vicinity of the crack tip front should be estimated within plastic region when appropriately constraint effect was calculated. It was found that the magnitude of constrain effect |$A_2$| is below 8.0 at the crack tip. But an appropriate location to measure the effective constraint effects $A_2$ at the critical value of J that crack initiation is characterizable by is r = 2mm and ${\theta}=90^{\circ}$ away from original crack tip, and the constraint effect |$A_2$| estimated is 5.3.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.729-732
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• 2003

The K-R design curve is an engineering method of linear-elastic fracture analysis under plane-stress loading conditions. By the way, linear-elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) is valid only as long as nonlinear material deformation is confined to a small region surrounding the crack tip. Like general steels, it is virtually impossible to characterize the fracture behavior with LEFM, in many materials. Critical values of J contour integral or crack tip opening displacement (CTOD) give nearly size independent measures of fracture toughness, even for relatively large amounts of crack tip plasticity. Furthermore, the crack tip opening displacement is the only parameter that can be directly measured in the fracture test. On the other. the crack tip opening angle (CTOA) test is similar to CTOD experimentally. Moreover, the test is easier to measure the fracture toughness than other method. The shape of the CTOA curve depends on material fracture behavior and, on the opening configuration of the cracked structure. CTOA parameter describes crack tip conditions in elastic-plastic materials, and it can be used as a fracture criterion effectively. In this paper, CTOA test is performed for steel JS-SS400 hot-rolled thin plates under plane-stress loading conditions. Special experimental apparatuses are used to prevent specimens from buckling and to measure crack tip opening angle for thin compact tension (CT) specimens.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.313-330
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• 1993

The propagating crack problems under dynamic plane mode in orthotropic material is studied in this paper. To analyze the dynamic fracture problems in orthortropic material, it is important to know the dynamic stress components and dynamic displacement components around the crack tip. Therefore the dynamic stress components of dynamic stress field and dynamic displacement components of dynamic displacement field in the crack tip of orthotropic material under the dynamic load and the steady state in crack propagation were derived. When the crack propagation speed approachs to zero, the dynamic stress component and dynamic displacement components derived in this study are identical to the those of static state. In addition, the relationships between dynamic stress intensity factor and dynamic energy release rate are determinded by using the concept of crack closure closure energy with the dynamic stresses and represented according to physical properties of the orthotrophic material and crack speeds. The faster the crack velocity, the greater the stress value of stress components in crack tip. The stress value of the stress component of crack tip is greater when fiber direction coincides with the crack propagation than when fider direction is normal to the crack propagation.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.539-544
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• 2009

The constraint effect $A_2$ has to be evaluated within plastic region near crack tip front using opening displacement. Plastic boundary and stress or strain conditions in the vicinity of the crack tip using recrystallization heat treatment was represented. It was found that the plastic deformation boundary by recrystallization heat treatment method was the true strain of ${\epsilon}t$ = 0.05mm/mm. With the estimation of constraint effects $A_2$, the region of proper displacement measurement point near crack tip was between 0mm and 1mm distance toward direction of crack propagation, and was between 1mm to 3mm distance toward direction of load line.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.214-219
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• 2004

Crack tip behavior of single mode loading condition(mode I)depend on tensile loading component but one of mixed mode loading condition(mode I+II) have influenced on shear loading component like the practical structure. Because crack closure is caused by shear loading component under mixed-mode loading a research on the behavior in the stage of crack initiation and propagation require to be evaluate about crack closure effect by fatigue crack surface friction. For that reasion we examined the behavior at the crack tip by direct measuring method. Measured behavior at the crack tip was analyzed through vector crack tip displacement. As a result, crack propafation equation was corrected by considering with crack closure effect. In addition we compared fatigue fracture crack surface and crack closure level.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.345-350
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• 2008

The magnitude of constraint effect $A_2$ value was experimentally estimated by using crack tip opening displacement(CTOD) between elastic and plastic regions near crack tip front for CT specimen with $25.4t{\ss}{\AE}$ SS400 steel. The constraint effect, $A_2$ was dependent on specimen configuration and on the measured positions of CTOD near crack front. $A_2$ should be estimated using the opening displacement calculated within crack front plastic region. If not, it's not reliable to evaluate of constraint effect at crack growth initiation in this paper.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.81-87
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• 1990

Fatigue crack closure levels based on the behavior of residual displacements on crack surfaces, are determined analytically according to the microscopic crack closure mechanisms, i.e., whether the first contact of crack surfaces takes place at the very crack tip or on the surfaces near the tip. The comparative analysis on the two models is carried out empirically by the constant amplitude fatigue tests on 2024-T3 aluminum alloy plate, and it shows that under negative stress ratio, the case of the first contact at crack tip gives better agreement with the experimental results than the other.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.87-87
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• 1990

Fatigue crack closure levels based on the behavior of residual displacements on crack surfaces, are determined analytically according to the microscopic crack closure mechanisms, i.e., whether the first contact of crack surfaces takes place at the very crack tip or on the surfaces near the tip. The comparative analysis on the two models is carried out empirically by the constant amplitude fatigue tests on 2024-T3 aluminum alloy plate, and it shows that under negative stress ratio, the case of the first contact at crack tip gives better agreement with the experimental results than the other.