A toughness based deformation limit for fatigue-cracked X-joints under in-plane bending |
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Institution: | 1. University of Liège, ANAST, 1 Chemin des Chevreuils, 4000 Liège, Belgium;2. GeM Institute UMR 6183 CNRS – ICAM Nantes, 35 Avenue du champ de Manœuvres, 44470 Carquefou, France;1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;2. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, England, UK |
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Abstract: | This study reports a deformation limit for the initiation of ductile fracture failure in fatigue-cracked circular hollow section (CHS) X-joints subjected to brace in-plane bending. The proposed approach sets the deformation limit as the calculated crack driving force in a fatigue crack at the hot-spot location in the tubular joint reaches the material fracture toughness measured from standard fracture specimens. The calibration of the proposed approach and the numerical procedure utilizes two large-scale X-joint specimens with fatigue generated surface cracks. The subsequent numerical investigation covers X-joints with two different brace-to-chord intersection angles, a wide range of geometric parameters and a practical range of material parameters. The development of the deformation limit includes a non-dimensional material toughness, which covers both the geometric parameters and material properties. The lower-bound deformation limit thus developed exhibits a linear relationship with respect to the crack depth ratio and indicates consistent values among X-joints with different brace-to-chord intersection angles. |
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Keywords: | Circular hollow section (CHS) Ductile tearing initiation Fracture deformation limit Tubular joint |
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