Gaozheng Zhao¹, Changchao Liu¹, Lingyu Sun¹, Ning Yang², Lei Zhang¹, Mingshun Jiang¹, Lei Jia¹, Qingmei Sui^1,*

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.16, No.1, pp. 81-96, 2022, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.016905

Abstract Fatigue crack prediction is a critical aspect of prognostics and health management research. The particle filter algorithm based on Lamb wave is a potential tool to solve the nonlinear and non-Gaussian problems on fatigue growth, and it is widely used to predict the state of fatigue crack. This paper proposes a method of lamb wave-based early fatigue microcrack prediction with the aid of particle filters. With this method, which the changes in signal characteristics under different fatigue crack lengths are analyzed, and the state- and observation-equations of crack extension are established. Furthermore, an experiment is conducted to verify the feasibility… More >

P.H. Wen¹, M.H. Aliabadi²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.8, No.3, pp. 223-248, 2012, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2012.008.223

Abstract A mesh-free method for modelling crack growth in functionally graded materials is presented. Based on the variational principle of the potential energy, mesh-free method has been implemented with enriched radial bases interpolation functions to evaluate mixed-mode stress intensity factors, which are introduced to capture the singularity of stress at the crack tip. Paris law and the maximum principle stress criterion are adopted for defining the growth rate and direction of the fatigue crack growth respectively. The accuracy of the proposed method is assessed by comparison to other available solutions. More >

Akiyuki Takahashi^1,*, Takaki Fujiwara¹, Yuichi Shintaku²

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 170-170, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05151

Abstract This paper presents a Paris law-based cohesive zone model (CZM) for fatigue crack growth simulations to enable the consideration of the plasticity induced crack closure effect, which is known to be a source of substantial crack growth retardation. In order to avoid the addition of any redundant model parameters, the basic equation of the CZM is derived from the Paris law so that the CZM has only the parameters of Paris law. Thus, the parameters can be determined by referring the existing experimental data of the Paris law without any troublesome fitting processes. Only the parameter to be fitted is… More >

¹Poh-Sang Lam², Jwo Pan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2015.046.001

Abstract A full range of stress intensity factor solutions for a kinked crack with finite length is developed as a function of weld width and the sheet thickness. When used with the main crack solutions (global stress intensity factors) in terms of the applied load and the specimen geometric parameters, the fatigue lives of the kinked crack can be estimated for the laser-welded lap-shear specimens. The predicted curve for the load range-fatigue life passes through the cluster of experimental data and is in good agreement. A classical solution associated with an infinitesimal kink is also employed. However, its life prediction tends… More >