Micromechanical Modelling of the Influence of Strain Ratio on Fatigue Crack Initiation in a Martensitic Steel-A Comparison of Different Fatigue Indicator Parameters

Materials

Hamad ul Hassan¹  Alexander Hartmaier¹  BenjaminJosef Schäfer²  Petra Sonnweber-Ribic² 

[1] Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany;Robert Bosch GmbH—Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering, 71272 Renningen, Germany;

关键词: martensitic steel;    fatigue crack initiation;    crystal plasticity;    fatigue indicator parameters;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ma12182852

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Micromechanical fatigue lifetime predictions, in particular for the high cycle fatigue regime, require an appropriate modelling of mean stress effects in order to account for lifetime reducing positive mean stresses. Focus of this micromechanical study is the comparison of three selected fatigue indicator parameters (FIPs), with respect to their applicability to different total strain ratios. In this work, investigations are performed on the modelling and prediction of the fatigue crack initiation life of the martensitic high-strength steel SAE 4150 for two different total strain ratios. First, multiple martensitic statistical volume elements (SVEs) are generated by multiscale Voronoi tessellations. Micromechanical fatigue simulations are then performed on these SVEs by means of a crystal plasticity model to obtain microstructure dependent fatigue responses. In order to account for the material specific fatigue damage zone, a non-local homogenisation scheme for the FIPs is introduced for lath martensitic microstructures. The numerical results of the different non-local FIPs are compared with experimental fatigue crack initiation results for two different total strain ratios. It is concluded that the multiaxial fatigue criteria proposed by Fatemi-Socie is superior for predicting fatigue crack initiation life to the energy dissipation criteria and the accumulated plastic slip criteria for the investigated total strain ratios.

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