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A method for evaluating the effect of cyclic thermal loading on crack tip stress fields is developed. In its development, advantage is taken of the periodic nature of fatigue loading and only harmonic loadings are evaluated. Formulating the problem in this way permits the extraction of time as an explicit variable and replaces its role with a dependence on the frequency of the thermal loading. The means for evaluating the effect of periodic loadings on crack tip stress fields is the stress intensity factor which is calculated from numerically defined stress and displacement fields using a path independent integral. Results obtained indicate that stress intensity factors of cracked components exposed to thermal fatigue conditions have a significant dependence on the frequency of the thermal cycle and the crack geometry. Numerical estimates for mode I thermal stress intensity have been obtained using thermal fatigue test data for a titanium alloy and can be as high as 25 percent of the critical mode I mechanical stress intensity.
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Cunningham, S.E., Griffin, J.H. Estimating the importance of cyclic thermal loads in thermo-mechanical fatigue. Int J Fract 47, 161–180 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00042574
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