Interaction effect analysis of two surface cracks using S-version FEM

Masanori Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Wada, Yulong Li

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Abstract

Fatigue crack growth under mixed mode loading conditions is simulated using S-version FEM. By using S-FEM technique, only local mesh should be re-meshed for new crack configuration, and it becomes easy to simulate crack growth. By combining with auto-meshing technique, local mesh easily re-meshed and curved crack path is modeled easily. Fully automatic crack growth simulation system in 3-dimensional problem is developed. Using this system, several kinds of plural surface cracks problems are simulated. It is shown that intereaction effect between two surface cracks appear in complicated manner depending on intial distances between two cracks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCM II and EPMESC XII - Proc. of the 2nd Int. Symposium on Computational Mechanics and the 12th Int. Conf. on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science
Pages650-655
Number of pages6
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, ISCM II, and the 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, EPMESC XII - Hong Kong, Macau, China
Duration: 30 Nov 20093 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
NumberPART 1
Volume1233
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, ISCM II, and the 12th International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science, EPMESC XII
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong, Macau
Period30/11/093/12/09

Keywords

  • Fatigue
  • Interaction
  • S-version Finite Element Method (S-FEM)
  • Surface Crack

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