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DIC-aided analysis of the fatigue behaviour of a welded 316L stainless steel

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The paper investigates the fatigue damage processes of a welded joint made of 316L stainless steel plates by using the digital image correlation (DIC) technique. First, the strain partition around a surface defect evidenced very high value of strain up to 10% at the notch root during the tension stage, which explained the poor fatigue life of some welded joint specimen. In healthy specimen, a strain gradient from the base metal to the fusion zone in the range of 0.3–0.6% to 3% respectively was evidenced. Fatigue crack always initiated in the fusion zone where the deformation concentrated either early in the fatigue life at high stress or progressively by a mechanism of deformation transfer from the base metal to the fusion zone at low stress.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Jocelyn GOLEK technical engineer at UMET of Lille University for his help in conducting the fatigue-DIC tests.

The SEM and TEM national facility in Lille (France) is supported by the Conseil Régional des Hauts-de-France and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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  1. Research Centre in Industrial Technologies (CRTI), P.O. Box 64, 16014, Cheraga, Algiers, Algeria

    Amina Sriba

  2. Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRAE, Centrale Lille, UMR 8207 – UMET – Unité Matériaux Et Transformations, 59000, Lille, France

    Jérémie Bouquerel & Jean-Bernard Vogt

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All the authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Dr. Amina SRIBA. Results analysis was performed by Dr. Amina SRIBA, Dr. Jérémie BOUQUEREL and Prof. Jean-Bernard VOGT. The first draft and revised version of the manuscript was written by Prof. Jean-Bernard VOGT, and all the authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Sriba, A., Bouquerel, J. & Vogt, JB. DIC-aided analysis of the fatigue behaviour of a welded 316L stainless steel. Weld World 66, 1915–1927 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-022-01355-9

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