TY - CONF A1 - Scolavino, L. A1 - Beretta, S. A1 - Madia, Mauro A1 - Zerbst, Uwe T1 - Critical speed of flawed rotors: global vs local approach T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2014 - GT2014 - Turbine technical conference and exposition (Proceedings) N2 - The burst of a disc in rotating machinery can cause catastrophic damage of the equipment and, more importantly, it can represent a mortal threat to anyone in the sphere of influence of the event. In order to minimize the danger associated to a rotating component failure, burst testing is required by the authorities in order to set safety margins to the normal operating speeds. Moreover more accurate predicting tools are required for designing the components. This paper presents the results of a numerical and analytical study on the assessment of the crack driving force for discs containing surface flaws. The aim is to provide a simple, though reliable, tool in order to be able to calculate the possible dangerous in-service speed for a rotating component and, therefore, to set burst margins above the normal operating conditions of the equipment. An R6-like flaw assessment procedure is adopted considering different assumptions in the definition of the critical speed and the analytical predictions are compared with the results of elastic-plastic finite element analysis of disc. In particular, the validity and potentiality of the method is proved for surface flaws in different positions in the disc. T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2014 - GT2014 CY - Düsseldorf, Germany DA - 16.06.2014 KW - Critical speed KW - Flawed rotors KW - Flaw assessment PY - 2014 SN - 978-0-7918-4576-9 DO - https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2014-26881 VL - 7A SP - 26881, 1 EP - 8 AN - OPUS4-32382 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Madia, Mauro A1 - Arafah, D. A1 - Zerbst, Uwe T1 - Reference load solutions for plates with semi-elliptical surface cracks subjected to biaxial tensile loading JF - International journal of pressure vessels and piping N2 - The yield or limit load is a key parameter with respect to the accuracy of flaw assessment based on R6 type procedures such as the R6 routine, the SINTAP and FITNET method, the standard BS 7910 and others. In a number of previous papers two of the present authors proposed the use of a reference load instead of the common limit load, which not only provided more exact fracture mechanics predictions, but showed also a wider and more general application range than the conventional parameter. Here the method has been extended to biaxial tensile loading and it has been successfully validated by a thorough comparison with finite element results and alternative solutions available in the literature. KW - Flaw assessment KW - R6 procedure KW - Limit load KW - Reference load KW - Biaxial tensile loading PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2014.02.004 SN - 0308-0161 VL - 119 SP - 19 EP - 28 PB - Applied Science Publ. Ltd. CY - Barking AN - OPUS4-31429 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Kiyak, Yusuf A1 - Madia, Mauro A1 - Burgold, Andreas A1 - Riedel, Gernot T1 - Reference loads for plates with semi-elliptical surface cracks subjected to tension and bending for application within R6 type flaw assessment JF - Engineering fracture mechanics N2 - Two of the authors of the present paper proposed a definition of a reference load F0 which can be used as an alternative option to the common limit load for cases where the definition of the latter might be problematic in the frame of flaw assessment procedures such as R6, BS 7910, SINTAP or FITNET. The reference load is defined as that load at which the ligament yielding parameter Lr approaches one. F0, in general, varies along the crack front. It has to be obtained by finite element analyses but the results can be approximated by analytical expressions. In a previous study of the authors such a solution was presented for tension loaded plates with semi-elliptical surface cracks. In the present paper it is extended to pure bending and to combined bending and tension. KW - Flaw assessment KW - R6 procedure KW - BS 7910 KW - SINTAP KW - FITNET KW - Limit load KW - Reference load PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.11.017 SN - 0013-7944 SN - 1873-7315 VL - 99 SP - 132 EP - 140 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington AN - OPUS4-30416 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Ainsworth, R. A. A1 - Madia, Mauro T1 - Reference load versus limit load in engineering flaw assessment: A proposal for a hybrid analysis option JF - Engineering fracture mechanics N2 - The net section limit load FY necessary for assessment at static loading is a key input for the accuracy of any elastic–plastic flaw assessment procedure of the R6 type. Unfortunately available limit load solutions are of variable quality since they have been obtained over decades by different methods. As a consequence the results of the fracture analyses such as the critical load or crack size are limited in their accuracy and are often significantly conservative. Further, common limit load solutions based on ligament yielding are inadequate in a number of cases even for through crack configurations and should be replaced by some kind of local yielding solutions. In the present paper a simple and straightforward reference load definition is proposed instead of the limit load which strictly corresponds to a ligament yielding parameter Lr = 1 in the R6 Routine and similar approaches such as the European SINTAP and FITNET methods. This can be determined by finite element simulation for any geometry. In addition to a previous study on thin wall notched plates the method is applied to plates containing shallow semi-elliptical surface cracks. The results demonstrate that the approach provides a suitable extension and improvement of the existing methods. KW - Flaw assessment KW - Reference stress method KW - R6 procedure KW - SINTAP KW - FITNET KW - Limit load KW - Reference load PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.10.018 SN - 0013-7944 SN - 1873-7315 VL - 91 SP - 62 EP - 72 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington AN - OPUS4-27279 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -