COMPATIBILITY OF FRACTURE MECHANICS PARAMETERS AND FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH PARAMETERS IN WELDED JOINT BEHAVIOUR EVALUATION

• Published in: Tehnički vjesnik Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 205 - 211
• Main Authors: Camagic, I, Vasic, N, Vasic, Z, Burzic, Z, Sedmak, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.04.2013
• Subjects: Crack propagation; Fatigue failure; Fracture mechanics; Fracture toughness; Mechanical properties; Microstructure; Residual stress; Welded joints
• ISSN: 1330-3651

Problem of fracture toughness, K sub(Ic), determination on a crack tip localized in a welded joint is set in principle, since fracture mechanics presumes homogeneous material, not only in a crack tip surrounding but on a distance from it, in order to maintain valid the theoretical presumptions and the meaning of the fracture toughness as a property measured by some of the fracture mechanics methods. Welded joint represents the non-homogeneity by its microstructure and mechanical properties, often by geometrical form, and by stress field as well, which are affected by different factors as well as residual stress after welding. Safety of a welded joint submitted to a variable load is a dominant topic of all serious researches in this area nowadays, thus a part of research in this paper is aimed at the analysis of variable load influence on a welded joint behaviour in the presence of a crack type defect, or in other words to the determination of the fatigue crack growth parameters.Original Abstract: Problem odredivanja zilavosti loma, K sub(Ic), na vrhu pukotine lokalizirane u zavarenom spoju postavlja se nacelno, zbog toga sto mehanika loma pretpostavlja homogen materijal, ne samo u okolini vrha pukotine vec i na udaljenosti od njega, kako bi ostale u vaznosti teorijske pretpostavke i znacenje zilavosti loma kao svojstva izmjerene nekom od metoda mehanike loma. Zavareni spoj predstavlja nehomogenost po mikrostrukturi i mehanickim svojstvima, cesto po geometrijskom obliku, a takoder i po polju naprezanja, na koje utjecu razni faktori kao i zaostala naprezanja nakon zavarivanja. Sigurnost zavarenih spojeva pri djelovanju promjenjivog opterecenja je u danasnje vrijeme dominantna tema svih ozbiljnijih istrazivaca u ovom podrucju ispitivanja, tako da je dio istrazivanja u okviru ovog rada usmjeren i na analizu utjecaja promjenjivog opterecenja na ponasanje zavarenog spoja u prisustvu greske tipa pukotine, odnosno odredivanje parametara rasta zamorne pukotine.