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High frequency mechanical impact treatment (HFMI) for the fatigue improvement: numerical and experimental investigations to describe the condition in the surface layer

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Post-treatment techniques like the high frequency mechanical impact treatment (HFMI) exhibit a significant fatigue life enhancement of welded joints. The effectiveness of this mechanical impact treatment is primarily based on the combination of three effects: the local hardness increase, compressive residual stresses and reduced notch stress concentration at the weld toe. The goal of the present study was to develop a computationally efficient approach for predicting residual stresses induced by the HFMI process on steel specimens. For that purpose, explicit simulations of this post weld treatment technique were performed utilizing the software package ABAQUS. Although, the focus of this study is to find suitable process and material parameters as input for the numerical simulation. For this, the impact velocity, contact force and permanent indentation depth of a pneumatic HFMI-tool were measured. Concerning material modelling, an enhanced combined material model with strain rate dependency was applied. Furthermore, the simulated residual stress field was experimentally validated by X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction residual stress measurement. The results of the simulations are in good agreement with the experimental results, showing that the material hardening model used for simulation has a high influence on the calculated residual stress values.

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    Jan Foehrenbach, Volker Hardenacke & Majid Farajian

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Foehrenbach, J., Hardenacke, V. & Farajian, M. High frequency mechanical impact treatment (HFMI) for the fatigue improvement: numerical and experimental investigations to describe the condition in the surface layer. Weld World 60, 749–755 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-016-0338-4

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