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Predicting fatigue life of welded aluminium joints with combined bending and torsion using energy based criteria*

  • Tadeusz Lagoda and Martin Küppers
Published/Copyright: May 28, 2013
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Abstract

This paper presents calculations of fatigue life of aluminium welded joints (tube-tube and flange-tube) under pure bending, pure torsion, and combined in- and out-of-phase bending with torsion, compared with against experimental results. In order to reduce a multiaxial loading state to an equivalent uniaxial state, an energy-based criteria is applied in the critical plane where cracking occurs. The best results were obtained using the criterion of maximum shear strain energy density for calculating equivalent local stress amplitude for tube-tube welded joints, for both proportional and non-proportional bending with torsion. For flange-tube joints under proportional and non-proportional bending with torsion, the best results were obtained using the criterion of maximum shear and normal strain energy density.

Kurzfassung

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Berechnungen zur Lebensdauer von Aluminiumschweißverbindungen (Rohr-Rohr- und Rohr-Flansch-Verbindungen) unter reiner Biegung und unter einer Kombination von Biegung mit Torsion vorgestellt und mit experimentellen Ergebnissen verglichen. Um den multiachsialen Beanspruchungszustand auf eine uniachsiale Belastung zu reduzieren, wurde ein ergiebasiertes Kriterium in der kritischen Ebene angewendet. Die besten Ergebnisse wurden erzielt, indem das Kriterium der maximalen Scher-Verformungsenergiedichte in der kritischen Ebene genutzt wurde, um die äquivalente lokale Spannungsamplitude für die Rohr-Rohr-Schweißungen zu berechnen, und zwar für beides, proportionale und nicht-proportionale Biegung mit Torsion. Für die Rohr-Flansch-Verbindungen unter proportionaler und nicht-proportionaler Biegung mit Torsion wurden die besten Resultate erreicht, indem das Kriterium der maximalen Scherung und der Normaldehnungsenergiedichte angewendet wurde.


Dr hab. Eng. Tadeusz Lagoda studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Opole, Poland and completed 1989 with MSc. Since 1989 he has been working at this University. He completed his PhD thesis at the Technical Univeristy of Opole in 1996 and since then has been Professor at Technical University of Wroclaw. Now, he is working as professor of the Technical University of Opole, Poland in the Faculty of Mechanics and Department of Mechanics and Machine Designe.

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Küppers studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Clausthal, Germany, and finished his MSc in Engineering in 1996 (Dipl.-Ing. Maschinenbau). Since 1996 he has been working as scientific engineer and project leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt, Germany, in the Department “Componentrelated material behavior”.

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Contribution to the 7th International Conference on Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture (7ICBMFF)


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Published Online: 2013-05-28
Published in Print: 2006-03-01

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