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A New Model of Fatigue Crack Growth Rate Considering Mean Stress Effects Due to Locked-In Stress

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During the fabrication of large structures, proper consideration of the mean stress due to locked-in stress is very important to quality control. In general, crack propagation life is shortened when applying the tensile mean stress. In this study, we examine the mean stress effect in terms of the fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR). We propose a FCGR model that considers crack closure, partial crack closure and compressive loads. The proposed model is validated with aluminum 5083 as well as three other materials at various stress ratios, and is compared with other existing FCGR models. We show that the proposed model effectively characterizes the FCGR under various stress ratios into a single line.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) of the Korea government through GCRC-SOP (No. 2011-0030013). This work was also supported by the Human Resource Training Program for Regional Innovation and Creativity through the Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation of Korea (No. NRF-2014H1C1A1073088). The authors gratefully acknowledge this support.

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  1. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Korea

    Yoo Choi, Jae Myung Lee & Myung Hyun Kim

  2. Korea Institute of Materials Science, Changwon, 51508, Korea

    Dong Jin Oh

  3. Dawoo Shipbuilding Marine & Engineering, Geoje, 53302, Korea

    Kyoung Seok Lee

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Choi, Y., Oh, D.J., Lee, J.M. et al. A New Model of Fatigue Crack Growth Rate Considering Mean Stress Effects Due to Locked-In Stress. Int J Steel Struct 19, 1099–1111 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13296-018-0190-z

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