Through-thickness long and short cracks;
Crack wake;
Crack length;
Crack closure measurement;
Compliance variation technique;
304L stainless steel;
SHORT FATIGUE-CRACK;
FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS;
ALUMINUM-ALLOY;
GROWTH;
PROPAGATION;
BEHAVIOR;
D O I:
10.1016/j.engfracmech.2013.01.003
中图分类号:
O3 [力学];
学科分类号:
08 ;
0801 ;
摘要:
A detailed study of the propagation of bidimensional (2D) through-thickness cracks has been conducted on a 304L austenitic stainless steel used in nuclear industry in view of providing a detailed description of the effective driving force to be introduced in numerical simulation of thermal fatigue crack arrays in some critical components. To answer this problem, crack closure is precisely determined for long cracks and 2D short cracks artificially obtained in CT specimens, for different loading conditions. The present results will be used to validate numerical simulations of crack closure presented in a second part as a sister paper. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.