Crack-tip stress field of fully circumferential surface cracked pipe under combined tension and thermal loads

Jin Ho Je, Dong Jun Kim, Yun-Jae Kim

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    Abstract

    Under excessive plasticity, the fracture toughness of a material depends on its size and geometry. Under fully yielded conditions, the stresses in a material near its crack tip are not unique but rather depend on the geometry. Therefore, the single-parameter J-approach is limited to a high-constraint crack geometry. The JQ theory has been proposed for establishing the crack geometry constraints. This approach assumes that the crack-tip fields have two degrees of freedom. In this study, the crack-tip stress field of a fully circumferential surface-cracked pipe under combined loads is investigated on the basis of the JQ theory by using finite element analysis. The combined loads are a tensile axial force and the thermal gradient in the radial direction. Q-stresses of the crack geometry and its loading state are used to determine the constraint effects. The constraint effects of secondary loading are found to be greater than those of primary loading.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1207-1214
    Number of pages8
    JournalTransactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, A
    Volume38
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2014 The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers.

    Keywords

    • Combined loads
    • Constraint effect
    • Crack-tip
    • FE analysis
    • Pipe
    • Q-stress

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Mechanical Engineering

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