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Numerical Simulation of Fretting Fatigue Damage Evolution of Cable Wires Considering Corrosion and Wear Effects

Ying Wang^*, Zheng Yan, Yangyang Wu

Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China

* Corresponding Author: Ying Wang. Email:

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2023, 136(2), 1339-1370. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.025830

Received 01 August 2022; Accepted 08 October 2022; Issue published 06 February 2023

Abstract

In this paper, a numerical model of fretting fatigue analysis of cable wire and the fretting fatigue damage constitutive model considering the multi-axis effect were established, and the user material subroutine UMAT was written. Then, the constitutive model of wear morphology evolution of cable wire and the constitutive model of pitting evolution considering the mechanical-electrochemical effect were established, respectively. The corresponding subroutines UMESHMOTION_Wear and UMESHMOTION_Wear_Corrosion were written, and the fretting fatigue life was further predicted. The results show that the numerical simulation life obtained by the program in this paper has the same trend as the tested one; the error is only about 0.7% in the medium life area; When the normal contact force increases from 120 to 240 N, the fretting life of cable wire decreases by 25%; When the evolution of wear morphology and corrosion effect are considered simultaneously, the depth of the wear zone exceeds 0.08 mm after 600,000 loads, which is much larger than 0.04 mm when only the evolution of wear morphology is considered. When the evolution of wear morphology and corrosion morphology is considered simultaneously, the damage covers the whole contact surface after 300,000 loads, and the penetrating damage zone forms after 450,000 loads, which is obviously faster than that when only the wear morphology evolution is considered. The method proposed in this paper can provide a feasible numerical simulation scheme for the visualization of the damage process and accurate life prediction of cable-supported bridges.

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