TY - GEN A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Vollrath, Bastian T1 - Limited Versus Unlimited Strain Accumulation Due to Ratcheting Mechanisms T2 - Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology N2 - After distinguishing material ratcheting and structural ratcheting, different phenomena related to structural ratcheting are gathered. Ratcheting of elastic–plastic structures observed with stationary position of loads is distinguished from ratcheting with moving loads. Both categories are illustrated by examples. The effect of evolution laws for the internal variables describing kinematic hardening on the accumulation of strain due to a ratcheting mechanism, and whether the ratcheting mechanism ceases with the number of cycles so that the accumulated strains are limited, is discussed. Some conditions are shown, under which the Chaboche model can lead to shakedown. Scenarios where shakedown is guaranteed at every load level, or where it may or may not occur at a specific load level, or where it definitely cannot occur at any load level, are distinguished. Correspondingly, the usefulness of shakedown analyses, which are searching for maximum load factors assuring shakedown, or direct (or simplified) methods to obtain postshakedown quantities by avoiding incremental cyclic analyses is discussed. KW - Ratcheting KW - moving loads KW - cyclic loads KW - strain accumulation KW - hardening Y1 - 2019 UR - http://pressurevesseltech.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=2725462 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042853 VL - 141 IS - 3 SP - 031206-1 EP - 031206-10 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Vollrath, Bastian T1 - Simplified determination of accumulated strains to satisfy design code requirements T2 - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping N2 - In case of cyclic loading, strain may accumulate due to a ratcheting mechanism until the state of shakedown is possibly achieved. Design Codes frequently require strain limits to be satisfied at the end of the specified lifetime of the structure. In addition, the strain range is required for performing fatigue analyses in case of plastic shakedown. However, little guidance is usually provided by Design Codes on how the accumulated strains and strain ranges are to be calculated, and some of the guidelines implemented in Design Codes are not well founded and may therefore be misleading. This is, for example, true for the ASME B&PV Code, Section III. Of course, strains and strain ranges can be determined by means of incremental elastic-plastic analyses, which require to go step-by-step through many cycles of a given load histogram until the state of shakedown is reached. This is rather costly in terms of engineering time and numerical effort. As an alternative, simplified methods can be adopted, e.g. the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) as used in the present paper. Being a direct method, effects from load history are disregarded. The theory is described shortly and illustrated by some examples. It is shown that the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones is well suited to provide reasonable estimates of strains accumulated in the state of elastic and plastic shakedown at the cost of few linear elastic analyses. KW - Simplified elastic-plastic analysis KW - Simplified theory of plastic zones (STPZ) KW - Zarka's method KW - Shakedown KW - Ratcheting KW - Cyclic loading KW - Accumulated strains KW - Strain range KW - Residual stress Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308016118304617 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2019.01.014 SN - 0308-0161 VL - 171 SP - 92 EP - 103 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Vollrath, Bastian T1 - Simplified Analysis of Strains Accumulated in the State of Elastic Shakedown Considering Multi-Parameter Loadings T2 - ASME 2018 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Volume 3B: Design and Analysis, Prague, Czech Republic, July 15–20, 2018 N2 - In case of cyclic loading, strain may accumulate due to a ratcheting mechanism until the state of shakedown is possibly achieved. Design Codes frequently require strain limits to be satisfied at the end of the specified lifetime of the structure. However, this requirement is sometimes tied to misleading prerequisites, and little guidance is provided on how the strains accumulated in the state of shakedown can be calculated. Incremental elastic-plastic analyses which require to go step-by-step through many cycles of a given load histogram are rather costly in terms of engineering time and numerical effort. As an alternative, the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) is used in the present paper. Being a direct method, effects from load history are disregarded. The theory is described shortly and exemplarily applied to a simplification of a pipe bend and a straight pipe, both subjected to combinations of several loads which vary independently from each other so that a multidimensional load domain is represented. It is shown that the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones is well suited to provide reasonable estimates of strains accumulated in the state of elastic shakedown at the cost of few linear elastic analyses. KW - pipe bend KW - cyclic loading KW - simplified theory of plastic zones Y1 - 2018 UR - http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2711770 SN - 978-0-7918-5163-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/PVP2018-84070 PB - ASME CY - New York, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vollrath, Bastian A1 - Hübel, Hartwig ED - Podgórski, Jerzy ED - Borowa, Ewa-Błazik ED - Be̜c, Jarosław T1 - Determination of post-shakedown quantities of a pipe bend via the simplified theory of plastic zones compared with load history dependent incremental analysis T2 - Computer methods in mechanics (CMM2017), proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, Lublin, Poland, 13-16 September 2017 N2 - The Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) may be used to determine post-shakedown quantities such as strain ranges and accumulated strains at plastic or elastic shakedown. The principles of the method are summarized. Its practical applicability is shown by the example of a pipe bend subjected to constant internal pressure along with cyclic inplane bending or/and cyclic radial temperature gradient. The results are compared with incremental analyses performed step-by-step throughout the entire load history until the state of plastic shakedown is achieved. KW - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones KW - pipe bend KW - cyclic loading KW - plastic shakedown KW - post-shakedown quantities Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-0-7354-1614-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5019119 PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, New York ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Vollrath, Bastian T1 - Ratcheting caused by moving loads T2 - International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering N2 - Progressive deformation (ratcheting) can occur as a response to variable loads as soon as the elastic limit is exceeded. If this is the case, strains and displacements accumulate in the event of cyclic loading in each load cycle. Widely known as triggers for ratcheting and already being considered in some design codes are configurations, in which a structure is subjected to at least two different types of load, namely a constant load (the primary load) and a superimposed cyclic load. In this paper, another mechanism that generates ratcheting is introduced. It can be attributed solely to the effect of a single load. In the simplest case, this can be explained by the successive activation of (an infinite number of) plastic hinges if a load of constant magnitude is moved in space. The increments of strains and displacements can decrease or increase from cycle to cycle, when the material is hardening, or if elastic foundation is present, or if the equilibrium condition is formulated for the deformed system (second-order theory) or if “large” rotations are taken into account (third-order theory). KW - Ratcheting KW - Progressive deformation KW - Shakedown KW - Traveling load KW - Moving temperature front Y1 - 2017 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40091-017-0154-0/fulltext.html SN - 2008-6695 SN - 2008-3556 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 139 EP - 152 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vollrath, Bastian A1 - Hübel, Hartwig ED - Burczynski, Tadeusz T1 - Determination of post-shakedown quantities of a pipe bend via the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones compared with load history dependent incremental analysis T2 - 22nd International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, CMM2017 N2 - The Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) may be used to determine post-shakedown quantities such as strain ranges and accumulated strains. The principles of the method are summarized succinctly and the practical applicability is shown by the example of a pipe bend subjected to internal pressure and cyclic in-plane bending. KW - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones KW - pipe bend KW - cyclic loading KW - multiaxial ratcheting KW - post-shakedown quantities Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-83-7947-264-2 SP - MS11-1 EP - MS11-2 CY - Lublin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hübel, Hartwig T1 - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones N2 - For a life prediction of structures subjected to variable loads, frequently encountered in mechanical and civil engineering, the cyclically accumulated deformation and the elastic-plastic strain ranges are required. The Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) is a direct method which provides the estimates of these and all other mechanical quantities in the state of elastic and plastic shakedown. The STPZ is described in detail, with emphasis to the fact that not only scientists but engineers working in practice and advanced students are able to get an idea of the possibilities and limitations of the STPZ. Numerous illustrations and examples are provided to support your understanding. KW - plasticity KW - ratcheting KW - shakedown KW - progressive deformation KW - cyclic loading KW - limit load KW - simplified analysis Y1 - 2016 UR - http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319298733 SN - 978-319-29873-3 SN - 978-3-319-29875-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29875-7 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ET - 1. Auflage ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hübel, Hartwig T1 - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones for cyclic loading and multilinear hardening T2 - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping N2 - The Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones (STPZ) is a direct method based on Zarka's method, primarily developed to estimate post-shakedown quantities of structures under cyclic loading, avoiding incremental analyses through a load histogram. In a different paper the STPZ has previously been shown to provide excellent estimates of the elastic–plastic strain ranges in the state of plastic shakedown as required for fatigue analyses. In the present paper, it is described how the STPZ can be used to predict the strains accumulated through a number of loading cycles due to a ratcheting mechanism, until either elastic or plastic shakedown is achieved, so that strain limits can be satisfied. Thus, a consistent means of estimating both, strain ranges and accumulated strains is provided for structural integrity assessment as required by pressure vessel codes. The computational costs involved typically consist of few linear elastic analyses and some local calculations. Multilinear kinematic hardening and temperature dependent yield stresses are accounted for. The quality of the results and the computational burden involved are demonstrated through four examples. KW - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones KW - Shakedown KW - Ratcheting KW - cyclic loading KW - progressive deformation KW - elastic-plastic strain range Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308016115000289 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2015.03.002 SN - 0308-0161 IS - 129-130 SP - 19 EP - 31 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Willuweit, Adrian A1 - Rudolph, Jürgen A1 - Ziegler, Rainer A1 - Lang, Hermann A1 - Rother, Klemens A1 - Deller, Simon T1 - Performance study of the simplified theory of plastic zones and the Twice-Yield method for the fatigue check T2 - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping N2 - As elastic–plastic fatigue analyses are still time consuming the simplified elastic–plastic analysis (e.g. ASME Section III, NB 3228.5, the French RCC-M code, paragraphs B 3234.3, B 3234.5 and B3234.6 and the German KTA rule 3201.2, paragraph 7.8.4) is often applied. Besides linearly elastic analyses and factorial plasticity correction (Ke factors) direct methods are an option. In fact, calculation effort and accuracy of results are growing in the following graded scheme: a) linearly elastic analysis along with Ke correction, b) direct methods for the determination of stabilized elastic–plastic strain ranges and c) incremental elastic–plastic methods for the determination of stabilized elastic–plastic strain ranges. The paper concentrates on option b) by substantiating the practical applicability of the simplified theory of plastic zones STPZ (based on Zarka's method) and – for comparison – the established Twice-Yield method. The Twice-Yield method is explicitly addressed in ASME Code, Section VIII, Div. 2. Application relevant aspects are particularly addressed. Furthermore, the applicability of the STPZ for arbitrary load time histories in connection with an appropriate cycle counting method is discussed. Note, that the STPZ is applicable both for the determination of (fatigue relevant) elastic–plastic strain ranges and (ratcheting relevant) locally accumulated strains. This paper concentrates on the performance of the method in terms of the determination of elastic–plastic strain ranges and fatigue usage factors. The additional performance in terms of locally accumulated strains and ratcheting will be discussed in a future publication. KW - Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones KW - Simplified elastic-plastic fatigue analyses KW - Zarka's method KW - Thermal cyclic loading KW - elastic-plastic strain range Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308016114000143 U6 - https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ijpvp.2014.01.003 SN - 0308-0161 IS - 116 SP - 10 EP - 19 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hübel, Hartwig A1 - Rudolph, Jürgen A1 - Rother, Klemens A1 - Ziegler, Rainer A1 - Willuweit, Adrian A1 - Lang, Hermann A1 - Deller, Simon T1 - Performance Study of the Simplified Theory of Plastic Zones for the Fatigue Check T2 - Proceedings of PVP2013, ASME 2013 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Paris, 2013 N2 - As elastic-plastic fatigue analyses are still time consuming the simplified elastic-plastic analysis (e.g. ASME Section III, NB 3228.5, the French RCC-M code, paragraphs B 3234.3, B 3234.5 and B3234.6 and the German KTA rule 3201.2, paragraph 7.8.4) is often applied. Besides linearly elastic analyses and factorial plasticity correction (Ke-factors) direct methods are an option. In fact, calculation effort and accuracy of results are growing in the following graded scheme: a) linearly elastic analysis along with Ke correction, b) direct methods for the determination of stabilized elastic-plastic strain ranges and c) incremental elastic-plastic methods for the determination of stabilized elastic-plastic strain ranges. The paper concentrates on option b) by substantiating the practical applicability of the simplified theory of plastic zones STPZ (based on Zarka’s method). Application relevant aspects are particularly addressed. Furthermore, the applicability of the STPZ for arbitrary load time histories in connection with an appropriate cycle counting method is discussed. Note, that the STPZ is applicable both for the determination of (fatigue relevant) elastic-plastic strain ranges and (ratcheting relevant) locally accumulated strains. This paper concentrates on the performance of the method in terms of the determination of elastic-plastic strain ranges and fatigue usage factors. The additional performance in terms of locally accumulated strains and ratcheting will be discussed in a future publication. Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0-7918-5564-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/PVP2013-97137 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - ASME CY - New York, NY ER -