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The crack tip stress-field in a trimaterial finite element model has been examined. The model represents an idealised steel weldment with a crack located at the fusion line. The model was loaded with a K I displacement field to simulate small scale yielding conditions. The effect of changing the weld metal plastic properties and the HAZ layer thickness on the crack tip stress-field was studied, keeping the material properties of the HAZ and base metal constant. The results show that the calculated J-integral remains path independent in the trimaterial model. It is confirmed that the crack tip stress-fields can be normalised by the J-integral. The mismatch constraint can be characterised by a difference field, which is independent of the normalised distance from the crack tip. The results show that changes of HAZ thickness only have a small effect on the stress-fields close to the crack tip. The hardenability of the weld metal influences on the slope of the crack tip stress distribution, but for small changes in hardenability, this effect can be neglected. The results indicate that the difference fields show some radial dependence when a homogeneous reference field is used, but the radial dependence was removed by introducing an inhomogeneous reference field. The effect of changes in the weld metal yield strength has been described with a two parameter (J-M) formulation using the inhomogeneous reference field.
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Ranestad, Ø., Thaulow, C. & Zhang, Z. Two-Parameter (J-M) Description of Crack Tip Stress-Fields for an idealized weldment in small scale yielding. International Journal of Fracture 88, 315–333 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007403709690
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