Shuo Yang¹, Yongxing Shen^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09207

Abstract Fatigue refers to repeated cyclic loading well below the ultimate failure stress of the structure. It accounts for most mechanical failures, and thus deserves serious consideration in engineering practice. Phase field approach is a powerful tool for fracture simulation, which tracks arbitrary and complicated crack paths without extra criterion. This approach has been widely applied to various cracking problems, such as shell fracture, beam fracture , etc. The phase field approach for fracture has been adapted for fatigue fracture in recent years. Due to the mesh requirement of the phase field approach and the large amount of load steps of… More >

Jiaming Liang¹, Qizheng Wang¹, Yile Hu¹, Yin Yu^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09307

Abstract The most common form of damage in aircraft structures is fatigue damage. Accurate detection of fatigue crack tip is the cornerstone for prediction of crack propagation path and the basis for calculation of residual strength and stiffness. It is of great significance to improve structural fatigue resistance design. When simulating the crack growth problem based on the traditional method, the crack tip needs to be re-meshed so that resulting in low calculation efficiency. The expansion of fatigue cracks has a complex shape, for example, the fatigue crack damage on the aircraft skin often shows a curved shape. The current traditional… More >

Zhenan Zhao^1,*, Weizhu Yang^2,3, Lei Li², Shouyi Sun², Yan Zeng²

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 1-2, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010342

Abstract The hot section components are usually in service under cyclic loading in an extreme working environment with high rotational speed at high temperatures, which is prone to fatigue failure. It is reported that fatigue related failures have accounted for over 50% of all failures of hot section components. Consequently, fatigue related failure at high temperature is one of the most important factors that shortens the service life of hot section components. Ni-based superalloy GH4169, similar as Inconel 718 (IN718), is a γ′′ and γ′ precipitation strengthened alloy. For decades, GH4169 superalloy keeps being an important material in hot section components… More >

Xuelian Zhang¹, Junjie Liu^1,*, Jian Li², Zhihong Liang¹, Han Jiang¹, Guozheng Kang¹, Qianhua Kan^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.010142

Abstract The last decades have witnessed the real and huge potential applications of hydrogels in various areas, including biomedicine, soft robotics, and flexible electronics. The fatigue of hydrogels challenges their reliability and longevity in service, but the related works are not sufficient. In this work, stress-controlled cyclic fatigue tests of a double-network tough hydrogel, consisting of polyacrylamide and alginate polymer networks, under pure shear deformation are investigated. The effects of peak stress, loading rate, peak stress holding time, and environmental relative humidity on the fatigue of the double-network tough hydrogel are considered. The results show that with the increase in peak… More >

Guo Li¹, Shaochen Bao², Shuiting Ding³, Zhenlei Li^2,*, Liangliang Zuo¹, Shuyang Xia¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09927

Abstract Advanced air-cooling turbine blades are capable of operating above the melting temperature of Nickel-based superalloy, which accordingly withstand complex thermomechanical fatigue loads during service life. This paper considers the problem of realizing gas turbine representative thermal gradients in the elevated temperature fatigue test, while ensuring the thermal gradient induced stress inside the specimens. For this purpose, a novel temperature control device utilizing impingement cooling, which supplies cooling air inside the gauge section and releases toward the inner wall, was constructed in tubular fatigue specimens. A single induction coil was arranged outside the gauge section, providing heat sources to establish thermal… More >

Shuiting Ding¹, Liangliang Zuo², Guo Li^2,*, Zhenlei Li³, Shuyang Xia², Shaochen Bao³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI: 10.32604/icces.2023.09911

Abstract This paper presents the assessment of fatigue damage for GH4169 under cyclic loading based on thermodynamic entropy generation at elevated temperature. According to the second law of thermodynamics, fatigue crack propagation is an irreversible thermodynamic dissipative process in which damage accumulates and entropy generates with each cycle until fracture occurs. In this work, crack growth process is simulated by commercial finite element software ABAQUS, and the concept of cyclic entropy generation rate (CEGR) is proposed to present the entropy generation of the crack tip region in a single loading cycle, where the calculation of CEGR is dependent on the evolution… More >

Abdourahamane Salifou Adam¹, Hatem Mrad¹, Haykel Marouani^2,*, Yasser Fouad³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.3, pp. 2845-2865, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030777

Abstract A high percentage of failure in pump elements originates from fatigue. This study focuses on the discharge section behavior, made of ductile iron, under dynamic load. An experimental protocol is established to collect the strain under pressurization and depressurization tests at specific locations. These experimental results are used to formulate the ultimate pressure expression function of the strain and the lateral surface of the discharge section and to validate finite element modeling. Fe-Safe is then used to assess the fatigue life cycle using different types of fatigue criteria (Coffin-Manson, Morrow, Goodman, and Soderberg). When the pressure is under 3000 PSI,… More >

Mustafa Sami Abdullatef^*, Faten N. Alzubaidi, Anees Al-Tamimi, Yasser Ahmed Mahmood

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.8, pp. 2083-2107, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.027266

Abstract The ongoing effort to create methods for detecting and quantifying fatigue damage is motivated by the high levels of uncertainty in present fatigue-life prediction approaches and the frequently catastrophic nature of fatigue failure. The fatigue life of high strength aluminum alloy 2090-T83 is predicted in this study using a variety of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for constant amplitude and negative stress ratios (). Artificial neural networks (ANN), adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS), support-vector machines (SVM), a random forest model (RF), and an extreme-gradient tree-boosting model (XGB) are trained using numerical and experimental input data obtained from fatigue tests… More > Graphic Abstract

Yanju Wang¹, Zhenyu Zhu², Aixue Sha¹, Wenfeng Hao^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.3, pp. 2655-2676, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025749

Abstract Many titanium alloy subcomponents are subjected to fatigue loading in aerospace engineering, resulting in fatigue failure. The fatigue behavior of Ti₂AlNb alloy subcomponents was investigated based on the Seeger fatigue life theory and the improved Lemaitre damage evolution theory. Firstly, the finite element models of the standard openhole specimen and Y-section subcomponents have been established by ABAQUS. The damage model parameters were determined by fatigue tests, and the reliability of fatigue life simulation results of the Ti₂AlNb alloy standard open-hole specimen was verified. Meanwhile, the fatigue life of Ti₂AlNb alloy Y-section subcomponents was predicted. Under the same initial conditions, the… More >

Ying Wang^*, Zheng Yan, Yangyang Wu

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1339-1370, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.025830

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… More > Graphic Abstract